The Constitution of the United States of America as Amended to December 1, 1924 |
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... Nature of the Constitution _ - _ . The jurisdiction of the United States ----- Relation of the States to the Federal Government_ Checks and balances in Government ----- Preamble : The people of the United States ----- To form a more ...
... Nature of the Constitution _ - _ . The jurisdiction of the United States ----- Relation of the States to the Federal Government_ Checks and balances in Government ----- Preamble : The people of the United States ----- To form a more ...
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... Nature , extent , and grounds of power .. Right to raise constitutional question ----- Effect of the Fifth Amendment ---- Effect of the Eleventh Amendment- . 89 89 Relation of admiralty and maritime jurisdiction___ 89 90 90 90 ...
... Nature , extent , and grounds of power .. Right to raise constitutional question ----- Effect of the Fifth Amendment ---- Effect of the Eleventh Amendment- . 89 89 Relation of admiralty and maritime jurisdiction___ 89 90 90 90 ...
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... Nature of State governments ---- Surrender of treaty - making power_ . The Confederate States of America . Letters of marque and reprisal _--- . No State shall emit bills of credit__ . 266 266 267 207 268 268 268 269 269 269 270 270 270 ...
... Nature of State governments ---- Surrender of treaty - making power_ . The Confederate States of America . Letters of marque and reprisal _--- . No State shall emit bills of credit__ . 266 266 267 207 268 268 268 269 269 269 270 270 270 ...
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... Nature of privileges and immunities ... . Privileges belonging to citizenship-- Right to hold real and personal property ... . 506 507 507 507 508 508 508 Right of suffrage and eligibility to office__ . 509 Privileges enjoyed by ...
... Nature of privileges and immunities ... . Privileges belonging to citizenship-- Right to hold real and personal property ... . 506 507 507 507 508 508 508 Right of suffrage and eligibility to office__ . 509 Privileges enjoyed by ...
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... Nature , purpose , and construction of amendments .. 566 Religion 567 Not a limitation on the States_ . 567 Incorporation and appropriation for hospital or religious society . 567 Treaty money of Indians for support of Catholic schools ...
... Nature , purpose , and construction of amendments .. 566 Religion 567 Not a limitation on the States_ . 567 Incorporation and appropriation for hospital or religious society . 567 Treaty money of Indians for support of Catholic schools ...
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Page 10 - No State shall enter into any Treaty, Alliance, or Confederation; grant Letters of Marque and Reprisal; coin Money; emit Bills of Credit; make any Thing but gold and silver Coin a Tender in Payment of Debts; pass any Bill of Attainder, ex post facto Law, or Law impairing the Obligation of Contracts, or grant any Title of Nobility.
Page 3 - All legislative Powers herein granted shall be vested in a Congress of the United States, which shall consist of a Senate and House of Representatives. SECTION 2. The House of Representatives shall be composed of Members chosen every second Year by the People of the several States, and the Electors in each State shall have the Qualifications requisite for Electors of the most numerous Branch of the State Legislature.
Page 16 - No Person held to Service or Labour in one State, under the Laws thereof, escaping into another, shall, in Consequence of any Law or Regulation therein, be discharged from such Service or Labour, but shall be delivered up on Claim of the Party to whom such Service or Labour may be due. Section. 3. New States may be admitted by the Congress into this Union; but no new State shall be formed or erected within the Jurisdiction of any other State; nor any State be formed by the Junction of two or more...
Page 16 - Rules and Regulations respecting the Territory or other Property belonging to the United States; and nothing in this Constitution shall be so construed as to Prejudice any Claims of the United States, or of any particular State. Section. 4. The United States shall guarantee to every State in this Union a Republican Form of...
Page 72 - No Senator or Representative shall, during the Time for which he was elected, be appointed to any civil Office under the Authority of the United States, which shall have been created, or the Emoluments whereof shall have been encreased during such time ; and no Person holding any Office under the United States, shall be a Member of either House during his Continuance in Office.
Page 94 - (4) Whenever in any such investigation the Commission, after full hearing finds that any such rate, fare, charge, classification, regulation, or practice causes any undue or unreasonable advantage, preference, or prejudice as between persons or localities in intrastate commerce on the one hand and interstate or foreign commerce...
Page 5 - Senators. The Congress shall assemble at least once in every Year, and such Meeting shall be on the first Monday in December, unless they shall by Law appoint a different Day.
Page 383 - The President shall, at stated times, receive for his services a compensation, which shall neither be encreased nor diminished during the period for which he shall have been elected, and he shall not receive within that period any other emolument from the United States, or any of them. Before he enter on the execution of his office he shall take the following oath or affirmation...
Page 37 - We admit, as all must admit, that the powers of the government are limited, and that its limits are not to be transcended. But we think the sound construction of the constitution...
Page 125 - In establishing any such through route the Commission shall not (except as provided in section 3, and except where one of the carriers is a water line), require any carrier by railroad, without its consent, to embrace in such route substantially less than the entire length of its railroad...