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... lawyer by profession ; was a member of the House of Representatives , in the Maine Legisla- ture , in 1842 and 1843 , and was elected to the Thirty - fifth Congress , serving as a member of the Committee on Revolu- tionary Pensions ...
... lawyer by profession ; was a member of the House of Representatives , in the Maine Legisla- ture , in 1842 and 1843 , and was elected to the Thirty - fifth Congress , serving as a member of the Committee on Revolu- tionary Pensions ...
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... lawyer by profes- sion ; served in the State Legislature in 1846 , and was re - elected in 1848 ; he was a Representative in Congress , from 1849 to 1853 , serving on the Committee on Ex- penditures in the State Department . Was killed ...
... lawyer by profes- sion ; served in the State Legislature in 1846 , and was re - elected in 1848 ; he was a Representative in Congress , from 1849 to 1853 , serving on the Committee on Ex- penditures in the State Department . Was killed ...
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... lawyer , and for several years a member of the House of Representatives and Senate of Massachusetts ; and was elected , in 1816 , to succeed General Var- num as Senator from that State , in Con- gress ; this office he resigned in 1818 ...
... lawyer , and for several years a member of the House of Representatives and Senate of Massachusetts ; and was elected , in 1816 , to succeed General Var- num as Senator from that State , in Con- gress ; this office he resigned in 1818 ...
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... lawyer by profession ; and was elected to the Legislature of Tennessee in 1843. He held several creditable posi- tions in his native State , and was chosen a Representative to the Thirty - fifth Con- gress , serving as a member of the ...
... lawyer by profession ; and was elected to the Legislature of Tennessee in 1843. He held several creditable posi- tions in his native State , and was chosen a Representative to the Thirty - fifth Con- gress , serving as a member of the ...
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... lawyer , and died in Shepherdstown , Virginia , August 18 , 1823 . Baker , Jehu . - He was born in Fayette County , Kentucky , November 4 , 1822 ; received a good education , studied law and adopted it as a profession , and was elected ...
... lawyer , and died in Shepherdstown , Virginia , August 18 , 1823 . Baker , Jehu . - He was born in Fayette County , Kentucky , November 4 , 1822 ; received a good education , studied law and adopted it as a profession , and was elected ...
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Seite 523 - The Congress of the united states shall have power to adjourn to any time within the year, and to any place within the united states, so that no period of adjournment be for a longer duration than the space of six months, and shall publish the Journal of their proceedings monthly, except such...
Seite 523 - All bills of credit emitted, moneys borrowed, and debts contracted, by or under the authority of congress, before the assembling of the United States, in pursuance of the present confederation, shall be deemed. and considered as a charge against the United States, for payment and satisfaction whereof, the said United States, and the public faith, are hereby solemnly pledged.
Seite 513 - He has refused, for a long time after such dissolutions, to cause others to be elected; whereby the legislative powers, incapable of annihilation, have returned to the people at large for their exercise; the State remaining, in the meantime, exposed to all the danger of invasion from without, and convulsions within.
Seite 521 - When land forces are raised by any state for the common defence, all officers of or under the rank of colonel shall be appointed by the legislature of each state respectively, by whom such forces shall be raised, or in such manner as such state shall direct ; and all vacancies shall be filled up by the state which first made the appointment. ARTICLE VIII. All charges of war, and all other expenses that shall be incurred for the common defence or general welfare, and allowed by the United States in...
Seite 513 - He has kept among us, in times of peace, standing armies without the consent of our Legislature. He has affected to render the military independent of and superior to the civil power.
Seite 523 - ... shall publish the Journal of their proceedings monthly, except such parts thereof relating to treaties, alliances or military operations, as in their judgment require secrecy ; and the yeas and nays of the delegates of each state on any question shall be entered on the Journal, when it is desired by any delegate; and the delegates of a state, or any of them, at his or their request...
Seite 521 - No state shall lay any imposts or duties, which may interfere with any stipulations in treaties, entered into by the United States in congress assembled, with any king, prince or state, in pursuance of any treaties already proposed by congress, to the courts of France and Spain.
Seite 524 - ... and we do further solemnly plight and engage the faith of our respective constituents, that they shall abide by the determinations of the United States in congress assembled, on all questions, which by the said confederation are 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.
Seite 524 - Ye that we the undersigned delegates, by virtue of the power and authority to us given for that purpose, do by these presents, in the name and in behalf of our respective constituents, fully and entirely ratify and...
Seite 523 - ... to agree upon the number of land forces, and to make requisitions from each state for its quota, in proportion to the number of white inhabitants in such state...