The Government of the Nation: A Course in Civil Government Based on "The Government of the People of the United States"

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Eldredge & Brother, 1900 - 224 páginas

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Página 192 - distinct ballots the person voted for as Vice-Président ; and they shall make distinct lists of all persons voted for as President, and of all persons voted for as Vice-Président, and of the number of votes for each, which lists they shall sign, and certify, and transmit, sealed, to the seat of government of the United States, directed to
Página 171 - submitted to them. And that the articles thereof shall be inviolably observed by the States we respectively represent, and that the Union shall be perpetual. In witness whereof we have hereunto set our hands in Congress. Done at Philadelphia in the State of Pennsylvania the ninth day of July in the year of
Página 109 - the party shall have been duly convicted : Provided, always, that any person escaping into the same, from whom labor or service is lawfully claimed in any one of the original States, such fugitive may be lawfully reclaimed and conveyed to the person claiming his or her labor or service aforesaid.
Página 172 - The House of Representatives shall be composed of members chosen every second year by the people of the several States, and the electors in each State shall have the qualifications requisite for electors of the most numerous branch of the State legislature." 2. " No person shall be a Representative,
Página 86 - 179. The Electoral College.—But the choice of a President is not made until three more steps have been taken. On the second Monday in January the Presidential electors meet in their respective States, usually at the capital of the State, and vote by ballot for President and Vice-Président, one of whom at least
Página 107 - sentiments in the said Territory. ARTICLE II. The inhabitants of the said Territory shall always be entitled to the benefit of the writ of habeas corpus, and of the trial by jury ; of a proportionate representation of the people in the Legislature, and of judicial proceedings according to the course of common law
Página 189 - UNITED STATES OF AMERICA,* Proposed by Congress and ratified by the Legislatures of the several States, pursuant to the fifth article of the original Constitution. Article I.—Freedom of Religion, etc. "Congress shall make no law respecting an
Página 177 - case it shall not be a law." 3. " Every order, resolution, or vote, to which the concurrence of the Senate and House of Representatives may be necessary (except on a case of adjournment), shall be presented to the
Página 193 - jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws." 2. " Representatives shall be apportioned among the several States according to their respective numbers, counting the whole number of persons in each State, excluding Indians not taxed. But when the right to vote at any election for the choice of Electors for President and VicePrésident of the United States, Representatives in Congress,
Página 55 - You will have to look back upon a century of national advancement without a parallel in history, and to look forward to its probable continuance upon a still larger scale, with an accumulation of high duties and responsibilities proportioned to an evergrowing power.—GLADSTONE. To the efficiency and permanency of your Union a government for the whole is indispensable

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