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... amendment of statutes . 25. Local and special laws prohibited . 26. Lotteries - shares of stock on margin . 27. Congressional districts . 28 . Legislative elections . 29. General appropriation bill . 30. Appropriations for religious and ...
... amendment of statutes . 25. Local and special laws prohibited . 26. Lotteries - shares of stock on margin . 27. Congressional districts . 28 . Legislative elections . 29. General appropriation bill . 30. Appropriations for religious and ...
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... amendment and revision , Divorce not to be granted . 25 . 26 . 27. Lotteries prohibited . 28. Census , when and how taken . 29 . Apportionment of legislators . 30. Congressional and legislative districts . 31. Corporations to be formed ...
... amendment and revision , Divorce not to be granted . 25 . 26 . 27. Lotteries prohibited . 28. Census , when and how taken . 29 . Apportionment of legislators . 30. Congressional and legislative districts . 31. Corporations to be formed ...
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... amendment of 1862 . SEC . 1 . ARTICLE VII . MILITIA . Organization aud dicipline . 2. Officers , how chosen . 3. Governor may call out . ARTICLE VIII . STATE DEBTS . SEC . 1. Legislature restricted as to amount to be contracted ...
... amendment of 1862 . SEC . 1 . ARTICLE VII . MILITIA . Organization aud dicipline . 2. Officers , how chosen . 3. Governor may call out . ARTICLE VIII . STATE DEBTS . SEC . 1. Legislature restricted as to amount to be contracted ...
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... amendment altered the mode in which the constitu- tion might be revised or entirely changed , and pro- vided that ... amendments were made until those proposed in 1861 , and which were ratified September 3d , 1862 . These amendments ...
... amendment altered the mode in which the constitu- tion might be revised or entirely changed , and pro- vided that ... amendments were made until those proposed in 1861 , and which were ratified September 3d , 1862 . These amendments ...
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... amendment was that ratified September 6th , 1871 , by which section 22 was added to article I , limiting ... amendments to this constitution have been five , as follows : Section 19 , article XI , and section 9 , article XIII , ratified ...
... amendment was that ratified September 6th , 1871 , by which section 22 was added to article I , limiting ... amendments to this constitution have been five , as follows : Section 19 , article XI , and section 9 , article XIII , ratified ...
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Page 260 - Every citizen may freely speak, write, and publish his sentiments on all subjects, being responsible for the abuse of that right; and no law shall be passed to restrain or abridge the liberty of speech or of the press.
Page 353 - Duties in another. 7 No Money shall be drawn from the Treasury, but in Consequence of Appropriations made by Law; and a regular Statement and Account of the Receipts and Expenditures of all public Money shall be published from time to time. 8 No Title of Nobility shall be granted by the United States : And no Person holding any Office of Profit or Trust under them, shall, without the Consent of the Congress, accept of any present, Emolument, Office, or Title, of any kind whatever, from any King,...
Page 294 - The governor shall have power to grant reprieves, commutations and pardons, after conviction, for all offenses, except treason and cases of impeachment, upon such conditions and with such restrictions and limitations as he may think proper, subject to such regulations as may be provided by law relative to the manner of applying for pardons.
Page 355 - Vice-President, declaring what officer shall then act as President, and such officer shall act accordingly, until the disability be removed, or a President shall be elected. 7. The President shall, at stated times, receive for his services a compensation, which shall neither be increased...
Page 350 - Each House shall keep a Journal of its Proceedings, and from time to time publish the same, excepting such Parts as may in their Judgment require Secrecy ; and the Yeas and Nays of the Members of either House on any question shall, at the Desire of one fifth of those Present, be entered on the Journal.
Page 348 - Legislature thereof, for six years ; and each senator shall have one vote. 2. Immediately after they shall be assembled in consequence of the first election, they shall be divided, as equally as may be, into three classes. The seats of the senators of the first class shall be vacated at the expiration of the second year ; of the second class...
Page 97 - Courts; also, in all cases at law which involve the title or possession of real estate, or the legality of any tax, impost, assessment, toll, or municipal fine, or in which the demand, exclusive of interest, or the value of the property in controversy, amounts to three...
Page 351 - States: 3. To regulate commerce with foreign nations, and among the several states, and with the Indian tribes: 4. To establish an uniform rule of naturalization, and uniform laws on the subject of bankruptcies throughout the United States: 5. To coin money, regulate the value thereof, and of foreign coin, and fix the standard of weights and measures: 6. To provide for the punishment of counterfeiting the securities and current coin of the United States: 7.
Page 342 - He has refused for a long time, after such dissolutions, to cause others to be elected; whereby the Legislative powers, incapable of Annihilation, have returned to the People at large for their exercise; the State remaining, in the meantime, exposed to all the dangers of invasion from without, and convulsions within.
Page 380 - ... remain for the future within the limits of the United States, as defined by the present treaty, shall be free to continue where they now reside, or to remove at any time to the Mexican republic, retaining the property which they possess in the said territories, or disposing thereof, and removing the proceeds wherever they please, without their being subjected, on this account, to any contribution, tax, or charge whatever. " Those who shall prefer to remain in the said territories, may either...