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Delegates were accordingly chosen in the various Colonies , some by the
legislative body , some by the popular branch thereof ... This first great
Continental Congress assembled on the 4th of Septeinber , 1774 , chose their
own officers , and ...
Delegates were accordingly chosen in the various Colonies , some by the
legislative body , some by the popular branch thereof ... This first great
Continental Congress assembled on the 4th of Septeinber , 1774 , chose their
own officers , and ...
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The first clause is — ' 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 ...
The first clause is — ' 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 ...
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... as a fundamental principle of a free Government , and especially , of a
republican Government , that no laws ought to be passed , without the consent of
the people , through representatives , immediately chosen by , and responsible to
them .
... as a fundamental principle of a free Government , and especially , of a
republican Government , that no laws ought to be passed , without the consent of
the people , through representatives , immediately chosen by , and responsible to
them .
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Such a body would also have this preference over any mere legislature , that it
would not be chosen for the ordinary functions of legislation , but singly and
solely for this duty . It was supposed from these circumstances , that the choice
would ...
Such a body would also have this preference over any mere legislature , that it
would not be chosen for the ordinary functions of legislation , but singly and
solely for this duty . It was supposed from these circumstances , that the choice
would ...
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... How chosen Qualifications of Electors of Term of Service of Qualifications of
Apportionment of Speaker of House of Impeachment by Disqualifications of
Neprieves and Pardons , Power of President Reprisal , Letters of Marque and
Reprisal .
... How chosen Qualifications of Electors of Term of Service of Qualifications of
Apportionment of Speaker of House of Impeachment by Disqualifications of
Neprieves and Pardons , Power of President Reprisal , Letters of Marque and
Reprisal .
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Seite 141 - 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 Executive (when the Legislature can not be convened), against domestic violence.
Seite 21 - ... in all cases of taxation and internal polity subject only to the negative of their sovereign, in such manner as has been heretofore used and accustomed...
Seite 43 - That a national government ought to be established, consisting of a supreme legislative, executive, and judiciary.
Seite 21 - That by such emigration they by no means forfeited, surrendered or lost any of those rights, but that they were, and their descendants now are, entitled to the exercise and enjoyment of all such of them, as their local and other circumstances enable them to exercise and enjoy.
Seite 22 - Resolved, 6. That they are entitled to the benefit of such of the English statutes, as existed at the time of their colonization ; and which they have, by experience, respectively found to be applicable to their several local and other circumstances.
Seite 22 - British parliament, as are bona fide restrained to the regulation of our external commerce, for the purpose of securing the commercial advantages of the whole empire to the mother country, and the commercial benefits of its respective members excluding every idea of taxation, internal or external, for raising a revenue on the subjects in America without their consent.
Seite 140 - No person held to service or labor in one state, under the laws thereof escaping into another, shall, in consequence of any law or regulation therein, be discharged from such service or labor, but shall be delivered up on the claim of the party to whom such service or labor may be due.
Seite 149 - It is plain, then, that the language of this amendment imports no more than that every man shall have a right to speak, write, and print his opinions upon any subject whatsoever, without any prior restraint, so always that he does not injure any other person in his rights, person, property, or reputation; and so always that he does not thereby disturb the public peace, or attempt to subvert the Government.
Seite 106 - No state shall, without the consent of congress, lay any duty on tonnage, keep troops or ships of war in time of peace, enter into any agreement or compact with another state or with a foreign power, or engage in war, unless actually invaded or in such imminent danger as will not admit of delay.
Seite 21 - ... as the English colonists are not represented, and from their local and other circumstances, cannot properly be represented in the British Parliament, they are entitled to a free and exclusive power of legislation in their several Provincial legislatures...