A Political Manual for 1866 [to 1870]Philp & Solomons, 1870 - United States |
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Page 510
... citizens , who , by acts of obedience , rendered in submission to such force , do not become respon- sible as wrong - doers for those acts , though not warranted by the laws of the rightful govern- ment . Actual governments of this sort ...
... citizens , who , by acts of obedience , rendered in submission to such force , do not become respon- sible as wrong - doers for those acts , though not warranted by the laws of the rightful govern- ment . Actual governments of this sort ...
Page 511
... citizens of any State of the Union , while maintaining its constitutional relations with the national Government , is a contract to pay lawful money of the United States , and can- not be modified or explained by parol evidence . But it ...
... citizens of any State of the Union , while maintaining its constitutional relations with the national Government , is a contract to pay lawful money of the United States , and can- not be modified or explained by parol evidence . But it ...
Page 514
... citizens who adopted the Constitution . This apprehen- sion is manifest in the terms by which the grant of incidental and auxiliary powers is made . All powers of this nature are included under the de- scription of " power to make all ...
... citizens who adopted the Constitution . This apprehen- sion is manifest in the terms by which the grant of incidental and auxiliary powers is made . All powers of this nature are included under the de- scription of " power to make all ...
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... citizens to the use of another class ; but if such property cannot be taken for the benefit of all without compensation , it is difficult to understand how it can be so taken for the benefit of a part without violating the spirit of the ...
... citizens to the use of another class ; but if such property cannot be taken for the benefit of all without compensation , it is difficult to understand how it can be so taken for the benefit of a part without violating the spirit of the ...
Page 534
... citizen a medium of ex- change of fixed , unvarying value . This implies a return to a specie basis , and no substitute for it can be devised . It should be commenced now and reached at the earliest practicable moment consistent with a ...
... citizen a medium of ex- change of fixed , unvarying value . This implies a return to a specie basis , and no substitute for it can be devised . It should be commenced now and reached at the earliest practicable moment consistent with a ...
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Page 564 - An act to aid in the construction of a railroad and telegraph line from the Missouri river to the Pacific ocean, and to secure to the Government the use of the same for postal, military, and other purposes.
Page 622 - No county, city, township school district or other municipal corporation shall be allowed to become indebted in any manner or for any purpose to an amount, including existing indebtedness in the aggregate exceeding five per centum on the value of the taxable property therein, to be ascertained by the last assessment for State and county taxes previous to the incurring of such indebtedness.
Page 599 - An act to provide a national currency secured by a pledge of United States bonds, and to provide for the circulation and redemption thereof...
Page 554 - That it shall be lawful for the President of the United States, or such person as he shall empower for that purpose, to employ such part of the land or naval forces of the United States...
Page 590 - ... to provide a national currency, secured by a pledge of United States stocks, and to provide for the circulation and redemption thereof...
Page 554 - All persons within the jurisdiction of the United States shall have the same right in every state and territory to make and enforce contracts, to sue. be parties, give evidence, and to the full and equal benefit of all laws and proceedings for the security of persons and property as is enjoyed by white citizens, and shall be subject to like punishment, pains, penalties, taxes, licenses, and exactions of every kind, and to no other.
Page 554 - States to make and enforce contracts, to sue, be parties, give evidence, and to the full and equal benefit of all laws and proceedings for the security of person and property as is enjoyed by white citizens, and shall be subject to like punishment, pains, penalties, taxes, licenses, and exactions of every kind, and none other, any law, statute, ordinance, regulation, or custom to the contrary notwithstanding.
Page 588 - States, shall (except to the extent permitted by rules and regulations prescribed by the Comptroller of the Currency, with the approval of the Secretary of the Treasury) be subject under this section to a limitation of 15 per centum of such capital and surplus in addition to such 10 per centum of such capital and surplus.
Page 548 - ... full and equal benefit of all laws and proceedings for the security of person and property as is enjoyed by white citizens, and shall be subject to like punishment, pains and penalties, and to none other, any law, statute, ordinance, regulation, or custom, to the contrary notwithstanding.
Page 520 - To have prescribed the means by which government should in all future time execute its powers would have been to change entirely the character of the instrument, and give it the properties of a legal code. It would have been an unwise attempt to provide, by immutable rules, for exigencies which, if foreseen at all, must have been seen dimly, and which can be best provided for as they occur.