The United States Government: Its Organization and Practical Workings. Including the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution of the United States, and a Description of the Three Grand Divisions of the Government, Namely:--the Legislative, Executive, and Judicial Departments, Their Powers and Duties, with the Number, Title and Compensation of All Persons Employed in Each, Together with Many Interesting Facts and Histories |
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... NOTE BY THE Department of State.— The foregoing explanation in the original instrument is placed on the left of the paragraph beginning with the words , " Done in Convention , " and therefore precedes the signatures . The interlined and ...
... NOTE BY THE Department of State.— The foregoing explanation in the original instrument is placed on the left of the paragraph beginning with the words , " Done in Convention , " and therefore precedes the signatures . The interlined and ...
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... note of which complete sets are not to be found upon its shelves . An admirable selection of the more important literary and scientific periodicals published in France , Ger- many , Italy , Switzerland , and other countries of Europe is ...
... note of which complete sets are not to be found upon its shelves . An admirable selection of the more important literary and scientific periodicals published in France , Ger- many , Italy , Switzerland , and other countries of Europe is ...
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... note all events occurring which may affect , bene- ficially or otherwise , the navigation and commerce of the United States ; the es- tablishment of new branches of industry , and the increase or decline of those before established ...
... note all events occurring which may affect , bene- ficially or otherwise , the navigation and commerce of the United States ; the es- tablishment of new branches of industry , and the increase or decline of those before established ...
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... notes and United States notes , or who may be employed in the preparation and issue of the same , as he may deem best . He may purchase and provide ma- chinery and materials , and employ such persons as may be necessary in the engraving ...
... notes and United States notes , or who may be employed in the preparation and issue of the same , as he may deem best . He may purchase and provide ma- chinery and materials , and employ such persons as may be necessary in the engraving ...
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... notes of national banking asso- | of law , and the register has been obtained ciations among the several States and Territories , in a specified manner and in accordance with the demands of trade . He has general direction of the ...
... notes of national banking asso- | of law , and the register has been obtained ciations among the several States and Territories , in a specified manner and in accordance with the demands of trade . He has general direction of the ...
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Page 17 - The Congress shall have Power to dispose of and make all needful 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 Government, and shall protect each of them against Invasion ; and on Application of the Legislature, or of the...
Page 17 - 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 States, or Parts of States, without the Consent of the Legislatures of the States concerned, as well as of the Congress.
Page 10 - He is at this time transporting large armies of foreign mercenaries to compleat the works of death, desolation, and tyranny, already begun with circumstances of Cruelty and perfidy scarcely paralleled in the most barbarous ages, and totally unworthy the Head of a civilized nation. He has constrained our fellow Citizens taken Captive on the high Seas to bear Arms against their Country, to become the executioners of their friends and Brethren, or to fall themselves by their Hands.
Page 13 - 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 15 - States, and a Majority of all the States shall be necessary to a Choice. In every Case, after the Choice of the President, the Person having the greatest Number of Votes of the Electors shall be the Vice President. But if there should remain two or more who have equal Votes, the Senate shall chuse from them by Ballot the Vice President. The Congress may determine the Time of chusing the Electors, and the Day on which they shall give their Votes; which Day shall be the same throughout the United States.
Page 16 - President and all civil Officers of the United States, shall be removed from Office on Impeachment for, and Conviction of, Treason, Bribery, or other high Crimes and Misdemeanors. ARTICLE III Section 1. The judicial Power of the United States shall be vested in one supreme Court, and in such inferior Courts as the Congress may from time to time ordain and establish. The Judges, both of the supreme and inferior Courts, shall hold their Offices during good...
Page 13 - No person shall be a Senator who shall not have attained to the Age of thirty Years, and been nine Years, a Citizen of the United States, and who shall not, when elected, be an Inhabitant of that State for which he shall be chosen. The Vice President of the United States shall be President of the Senate, but shall have no Vote, unless they be equally divided.
Page 222 - ... in public use or on sale for more than two years prior to his application, unless the same is proved to have been abandoned, may, upon payment of the fees required by law and other due proceedings had, obtain a patent therefor.
Page 10 - He has plundered our seas, ravaged our Coasts, burned our towns, and destroyed the lives of our people. He is at this time transporting large Armies of foreign Mercenaries to complete the works of death, desolation and tyranny, already begun with circumstances of Cruelty and perfidy scarcely paralleled in the most barbarous ages, and totally unworthy the Head of a civilized nation.
Page 250 - That the Supreme Court shall have exclusive jurisdiction of all controversies of a civil nature, where a state is a party, except between a state and its citizens; and except also between a state and citizens of other states, or aliens, in which latter case it shall have original but not exclusive jurisdiction.