An Exposition of the Constitution of the United StatesT. & J.W. Johnson & Company, 1885 - 318 pages |
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... Justice Fugitives from Labor NEW STATES AND TERRITORIES . Admission of New States into the Union Territories GUARANTY OF REPUBLICAN GOVERNMENT . Injunction respecting AMENDMENTS . Mode of PUBLIC DEBT , SUPREMACY OF THE CONSTITUTION ...
... Justice Fugitives from Labor NEW STATES AND TERRITORIES . Admission of New States into the Union Territories GUARANTY OF REPUBLICAN GOVERNMENT . Injunction respecting AMENDMENTS . Mode of PUBLIC DEBT , SUPREMACY OF THE CONSTITUTION ...
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... justice , insure domestic tranquillity , provide for the common defence , promote the general welfare , and secure the blessings of liberty to our- selves and our posterity , do ordain and establish this Con- stitution for the United ...
... justice , insure domestic tranquillity , provide for the common defence , promote the general welfare , and secure the blessings of liberty to our- selves and our posterity , do ordain and establish this Con- stitution for the United ...
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... Justice shall preside ; and no per- son shall be convicted without the concurrence of two - thirds of the members present . 7. Judgment in cases of impeachment shall not extend further than to removal from office , and disqualification ...
... Justice shall preside ; and no per- son shall be convicted without the concurrence of two - thirds of the members present . 7. Judgment in cases of impeachment shall not extend further than to removal from office , and disqualification ...
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... justice , and be found in another state , shall , on demand of the executive authority of the state from which he fled , be delivered up , to be removed to the state having jurisdiction of the crime . 3. No person held to service or ...
... justice , and be found in another state , shall , on demand of the executive authority of the state from which he fled , be delivered up , to be removed to the state having jurisdiction of the crime . 3. No person held to service or ...
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... justice , insure domestic tranquillity , provide for the common defence , promote the general welfare , and secure the blessings of liberty to them- selves and their posterity . 30. Such being the purpose , what means have been devised ...
... justice , insure domestic tranquillity , provide for the common defence , promote the general welfare , and secure the blessings of liberty to them- selves and their posterity . 30. Such being the purpose , what means have been devised ...
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Page 27 - Congress shall make. 3. The trial of all crimes, except in cases of impeachment, shall be by jury; and such trial shall be held in the state where the said crimes shall have been committed ; but when not committed within any state the trial shall be at such place or places as the Congress may by law have directed.
Page 295 - And let us with caution indulge the supposition that morality can be maintained without religion. Whatever may be conceded to the influence of refined education on minds of peculiar structure, reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principle.
Page 291 - The very idea of the power and the right of the people to establish government, presupposes the duty of every individual to obey the established government. All obstructions to the execution of the laws, all combinations and associations, under whatever plausible character, with the real design to direct, control, counteract or awe the regular deliberation and action of the constituted authorities, are destructive of this fundamental principle, and of fatal tendency.
Page 292 - Let me now take a more comprehensive view and warn you in the most solemn manner against the baneful effects of the spirit of party generally. This spirit, unfortunately, is inseparable from our nature, having its root in the strongest passions of the human mind.
Page 288 - While, then, every part of our country thus feels an immediate and particular interest in union, all the parts combined cannot fail to find in the united mass of means and efforts, greater strength, greater resource, proportionably greater security from external danger, a less frequent interruption of their peace by foreign nations, and, what is of inestimable value, they must derive from union an exemption from those broils and wars between themselves...
Page 276 - States; regulating the trade and managing all affairs with the Indians, not members of any of the States; provided that the legislative right of any State, within its own limits, be not infringed or violated...
Page 274 - ... of establishing rules for deciding in all cases what captures on land or water shall be legal, and in what manner prizes taken by land or naval forces, in the service of the United States, shall be divided or appropriated ; of granting letters of marque and reprisal in times of peace; appointing courts for the trial of piracies and felonies committed on the high seas...
Page 285 - ... the happiness of the people of these States, under the auspices of liberty, may be made complete by so careful a preservation and so prudent a use of this blessing as will acquire to them the glory of recommending it to the applause, the affection, and adoption of every nation which is yet a stranger to it.
Page 278 - ... and welfare of the United States or any of them, nor emit bills, nor borrow money on the credit of the United States, nor appropriate money, nor agree upon the number of vessels of war to be built or purchased, or the number of land or sea forces to be raised, nor appoint a Commander-in-Chief of the army or navy, unless nine States assent to the same...
Page 299 - I repeat it, therefore, let those engagements be observed in their genuine sense. But, in my opinion, it is unnecessary and would be unwise to extend them. Taking care always to keep ourselves, by suitable establishments, on a respectable defensive posture, we may safely trust to temporary alliances for extraordinary emergencies.