Notes of Constitutional Decisions: Being a Digest of the Judicial Interpretations of the Constitution of the United States, as Contained in the Various Federal and State Reports. Arranged Under Each Clause of the Constitution. Together with an Appendix, Containing the Declaration of Independence and Articles of Confederation |
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... UNITED STATES . WE , the People of the United States , in order to form a more perfect union , establish justice , insure domestic tranquility , provide for the common defense , promote the general welfare , and secure the blessings of ...
... UNITED STATES . WE , the People of the United States , in order to form a more perfect union , establish justice , insure domestic tranquility , provide for the common defense , promote the general welfare , and secure the blessings of ...
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... United States " and citizens , are synony- mous terms , and mean the same thing . They both describe the political body who form the sovereignty , hold the power and conduct the govern- ment through their representatives . They are what ...
... United States " and citizens , are synony- mous terms , and mean the same thing . They both describe the political body who form the sovereignty , hold the power and conduct the govern- ment through their representatives . They are what ...
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... United States often approach each other so nearly that the line of division is almost invisible . While the laws of both , then , may be executed without clashing , they should be supported unless they are manifestly in violation of the ...
... United States often approach each other so nearly that the line of division is almost invisible . While the laws of both , then , may be executed without clashing , they should be supported unless they are manifestly in violation of the ...
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... United States , and who shall not , when elected , be an inhabitant of that State for which he shall be chosen . 4. The Vice President of the United States shall be ' president of the Senate , but shall have no vote unless they be ...
... United States , and who shall not , when elected , be an inhabitant of that State for which he shall be chosen . 4. The Vice President of the United States shall be ' president of the Senate , but shall have no vote unless they be ...
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... United States ; but the party convicted shall nevertheless be liable and subject to in- dictment , trial , judgment , and punishment , according to law . SECTION IV . 1. The times , places , and manner of holding elec- tions for ...
... United States ; but the party convicted shall nevertheless be liable and subject to in- dictment , trial , judgment , and punishment , according to law . SECTION IV . 1. The times , places , and manner of holding elec- tions for ...
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Page 394 - ... to appoint, by joint consent, commissioners or judges to constitute a court for hearing and determining the matter in question...
Page 391 - States in this Union, the free inhabitants of each of these States, paupers, vagabonds, and fugitives from justice excepted, shall be entitled to all privileges and immunities of free citizens in the several States; and the people of each State shall have free ingress and regress to and from any other State, and shall enjoy therein all the privileges of trade and commerce subject to the same duties, impositions, and restrictions as the inhabitants thereof respectively...
Page 6 - The Constitution of the United States is a law for rulers and people, equally in war and in peace, and covers with the shield of its protection all classes of men, at all times, and under all circumstances. No doctrine, involving more pernicious consequences, was ever invented by the wit of man, than that any of its provisions can be suspended during any of the great exigencies of government.
Page 393 - State grant commissions to any ships or vessels of war, nor letters of marque or reprisal, except it be after a declaration of war by the United States in Congress assembled, and then only against the kingdom or state, and the subjects thereof, against which war has been so declared, and under such regulations as shall be established by the United States...
Page 245 - 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 nor...
Page 286 - They may, however, be all comprehended under the following general heads: protection by the government, the enjoyment of life and liberty, with the right to acquire and possess property of every kind, and to pursue and obtain happiness and safety ; subject, nevertheless, to such restraints as the government may justly prescribe for the general good of the whole.
Page 232 - It is sufficient, for the present, to say, generally, that, when the importer has so acted upon the thing imported that it has become incorporated and mixed up with the mass of property in the country, it has, perhaps, lost its distinctive character as an import, and has become subject to the taxing power of the state ; but while remaining the property of the importer, in his warehouse, in the original form or package in which it was imported, a tax upon it is too plainly a duty on imports to escape...
Page 396 - The United States in Congress assembled shall have authority to appoint, a committee, to sit in the recess of Congress, to be denominated A COMMITTEE OF THE STATES, and to consist of one delegate from each State; and to appoint such other committees and civil officers as may be necessary for managing the general affairs of the United States under their direction...
Page 391 - State of which the owner is an inhabitant; provided also that no imposition, duties, or restriction shall be laid by any State, on the property of the United States, or either of them.
Page 328 - 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.