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... never intended by the author . Few things are more difficult than to use aright arguments founded on the political experience of other countries . As the chief practical use of history is to deliver us from plausible historical ...
... never intended by the author . Few things are more difficult than to use aright arguments founded on the political experience of other countries . As the chief practical use of history is to deliver us from plausible historical ...
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... never absent from their thoughts . Of the supposed influence of other conti- nental authors , such as Rousseau , or even of English thinkers such as Burke , there are few direct traces in the Federal Consti- tution or in the classical ...
... never absent from their thoughts . Of the supposed influence of other conti- nental authors , such as Rousseau , or even of English thinkers such as Burke , there are few direct traces in the Federal Consti- tution or in the classical ...
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... never ( since 1796 ) been violated -to vote for a particular candidate . In choosing them the people virtually choose the President , and thus the very thing which the men of 1787 sought to prevent has happened , -the President is ...
... never ( since 1796 ) been violated -to vote for a particular candidate . In choosing them the people virtually choose the President , and thus the very thing which the men of 1787 sought to prevent has happened , -the President is ...
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... never been any question of reviving the true and original intent of the plan of double elec- tion , and consequently nothing has ever turned on the personality of the electors . They are now so little significant that to enable the ...
... never been any question of reviving the true and original intent of the plan of double elec- tion , and consequently nothing has ever turned on the personality of the electors . They are now so little significant that to enable the ...
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... never before been created . The Senate appointed three Repub- licans and two Democrats . The House of Representatives appointed three Democrats and two Republicans . So far there was an exact balance . The statute had indicated four of ...
... never before been created . The Senate appointed three Repub- licans and two Democrats . The House of Representatives appointed three Democrats and two Republicans . So far there was an exact balance . The statute had indicated four of ...
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Page 666 - States — regulating the trade and managing all affairs with the Indians, not members of any of the States, provided that the legislative right of any State within its own limits be not infringed or violated — establishing and regulating post-offices from one State to another, throughout all the United States, and exacting such postage on the papers passing thro...
Page 663 - No state shall be represented in congress by less than two, nor by more than seven members; and no person shall be capable of being a delegate for more than three years in any term of six years; nor shall any person, being a delegate, be capable of holding any office under the United States, for which he, or another for his benefit, receives any salary, fees, or emolument of any kind.
Page 667 - And the Articles of this confederation shall be inviolably observed by every state, and the union shall be perpetual; nor shall any alteration at any time hereafter be made in any of them; unless such alteration be agreed to in a congress of the united states, and be afterwards confirmed by the legislatures of every state.
Page 663 - No vessels of war shall be kept up in time of peace by any State, except such number only as shall be deemed necessary by the United States, in Congress assembled, for the defence of such State or its trade; nor shall any body of forces be kept up by any State, in time of peace, except such number only as, in the judgment of the United States, in Congress assembled, shall be deemed requisite to garrison the forts necessary for the defence of such State...
Page 665 - ... strike out one, the petitioners beginning, until the number shall be reduced to thirteen ; and from that number not less than seven, nor more than nine names as congress shall direct, shall in the presence of congress be drawn out by lot, and the persons whose names shall be so drawn or any five of them, shall be commissioners or judges, to hear and finally determine the controversy, so always as a major part of the judges who shall hear the cause shall agree in the determination...
Page 229 - State, in which a decision in the suit could be had, where is drawn in question the validity of a treaty or statute of, or an authority exercised under, the United States, and the decision is against their validity ; or where is drawn in question the validity of a statute of, or an authority exercised under, any State, on the ground of their being repugnant to the Constitution, treaties, or laws of the United States...
Page 678 - Presidt. and Deputy from Virginia New Hampshire John Langdon Nicholas Oilman Massachusetts Nathaniel Gorham Rufus King Connecticut Wm. Saml. Johnson Roger Sherman New York Alexander Hamilton New Jersey Wil : Livingston David Brearley Wm. Paterson Jona: Dayton Pennsylvania B.
Page 315 - Not only, therefore, can there be no loss of separate and independent autonomy to the States, through their union under the Constitution, but it may be not unreasonably said that the preservation of the States, and the maintenance of their governments, are as much within the design and care of the Constitution as the preservation of the Union and the maintenance of the National government. The Constitution, in all its provisions, looks to an indestructible Union, composed of indestructible States.
Page 719 - I do solemnly swear, (or affirm, as the case may be,) that I will support the constitution of the United States,, and the constitution of the State of California; and that I will faithfully discharge the duties of the office of according to the best of my ability.
Page 683 - All men are by nature free and independent, and have certain inalienable rights, among which are those of enjoying and defending life and liberty ; acquiring, possessing, and protecting property; and pursuing and obtaining safety and happiness.