The House of Representatives shall choose their Speaker and other officers.. REPRESENTATIVES. The House of Representatives shall have the sole power of impeachment.. REPRESENTATIVES. The times, places, and manner of holding elections for senators and representatives shall be pre- scribed in each State by the legislature thereof; but the Congress may, at any time, by law. make or alter such regulations, except as to the places of choosing senators.. REPRESENTATIVES. The House of—
Shall be the judge of the elections, returns, and qualiti- cations of its own members..........
A majority thereof shall constitute a quorum to do business; but a smaller number may adjourn from day to day, and may be authorized to compel the attendance of absent members, in such manner, and under such penal- ties, as that house may provide
May determine the rules of its proceedings, punish its members for disorderly behavior, and, with the concur- rence of two-thirds, expel a member.
Shall keep a journal of its proceedings, and from time to time publish the same, excepting such parts as may, in their judgment, require secrecy; and the yeas and nays of the members on any question shall, at the desire of one- fifth of those present, be entered on the journal ..
Shall not, during the session of Congress, without the consent of the Senate, adjourn for more than three days, nor to any other place than that in which the two houses shall be sitting
REPRESENTATIVES. The Senators and-
Shall receive a compensation for their services, to be ascertained by law, and paid out of the Treasury of the United States
They shall, in all cases except treason, felony, and breach of the peace, be privileged from arrest during their attendance at the session of their respective houses, and in going to and returning from the same; and for any speech or debate in either house, they shall not be ques- tioned in any other place. REPRESENTATIVES. All bills for raising revenue shall originate in the House of Representatives; but the Senate may pro- pose, or concur with, amendments, as on other bills... REPRESENTATIVES. Every bill, order, resolution, or vote (except on a question of adjournment), originating in either house of Congress, shall be presented to the President of the United States. (For proceedings see Bill-Resolution.).. REPRESENTATIVES in Congress, and members of State legislatures,
shall be bound by oath or affirmation, to support this Constitution...
REPRIEVES. The President shall have power to grant reprieves.. Reprieves defined, n. 177.
REPRISAL. Congress shall have power to grant letters of marque and reprisal ....
Reprisal defined and discussed, n. 121.
was in Congress under the Confederation, Art. IX. p. 14. REPRISAL. No State shall grant letters of marque and reprisal... Because this is a national power, n. 152.
REPUBLICAN. The United States shall guarantee to every State in this Union, a republican form of government. Republican defined, n. 233, p. 243. A government of the people, Id.
REPUBLICAN governments in the rebel States. To enable the rebel States to establish republican governments. n. 256. p. 282, preamble. Inquiry as to whether Maryland has, n. 46. (See Rebel States.)
RESERVED rights. (See Retained Rights.) Amendments. RESERVED powers. The powers not delegated to the United
States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the
States, are reserved to the States, respectively, or to the people. Amendments...
The powers not delegated are retained, notes 89, 269, p. 107. RESERVING to the States. Congress shall have power to provide for organizing, arming, and disciplining the militia, and governing such part as may be in the service of the United States, reserving to the States the appointment of the officers, and the authority of training the militia according to the discipline prescribed by Congress.
RESIDENCE of fourteen years within the United States requisite in eligibility of a person to the office of President or Vice- President of the United States.. RESIGNATION. Vacancies by resignation of senators may be filled by the executive of a State in recess of legislature... The seat is vacated, before notice that the resignation is accepted, n. 32. RESIGNATION. In case of the resignation of the President, the office shall devolve on the Vice-President, &c.... RESOLUTION. Every order, resolution, or vote, 'to which the con- currence of the Senate and House of Representatives may be necessary (except on a question of adjournment), shall be presented to the President of the United States, and, before the same shall take effect, shall be approved by him; or, being disapproved by him, shall be repassed by two-thirds of the Senate and House of Representatives, according to the rules and limitations prescribed in the case of a bill. (See Bills.)
When a resolution becomes a law, joint and concurrent, n. 70. A joint, submitting the 14th amendment, n. 276, p. 278. RETAINED rights. The enumeration, in the Constitution, of cer- tain rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people. Amendments. RETURNED. Bills, resolutions, &c., not approved, to be returned by the President to the house in which they originated.. RETURNED. Bills, resolutions, &c., not returned within ten days, Sundays excepted, to become laws unless Congress ad- journ.
The President must have ten entire days, n. 69. RETURNS. Each house shall be the judge of the elections, re- turns, and qualifications of its own members Returns defined, n. 46.
REVENUE. All bills for raising revenue shall originate in the House of Representatives; but the Senate may propose, or concur with, amendments, as on other bills Revenue defined, n. 65.
REVENUE. No pref rence shall be given, by any regulation of commerce or revenue, to the ports of one State over those of another....
RHODE ISLAND. Signed the Declaration of Independence, p. 7. One of the Confederation, p. 9. Signed the articles thereof p. 21. Rule of suffrage, n. 17.
RHODE ISLAND and Providence Plantations. Entitled to one repre- sentative in first Congress
Two by the census of 1860, n. 24. Assigned to first judicial circuit. n. 197. Ratified the thirteenth constitutional amendment, n. 274; and the fourteenth, n. 275.
RIGHT. The habeas corpus is a writ of, n. 141.
RIGHT of Congress. Because of the thirteenth amendment, to
pass the civil rights law, n. 274, p. 273.
RIGHT of conscience. (See Religion.)
RIGHT of the people. Congress shall make no law abridging the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances.
The people used in the broadest sense, n. 248.
RIGHT of the people. A well-regulated militia being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed.
Amend- RIGHT of the people. The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated; and no war- rants shall issue but upon probable cause, supported by oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized. Amendments.
RIGHT of. (See Life-Liberty-Property.) RIGHT of evidence and defense in criminal prosecutions. (See Criminal.)
RIGHT of trial by jury. In suits at common law, where the value in controversy shall exceed twenty dollars, the right of trial by jury shall be preserved, and no fact tried by a jury shall be otherwise re-examined in any court of the United States, than according to the rules of common law. Amendments.........
RIGHTS. When acquired under existing law there is no power to take them away, n. 257, p. 260. The great absolute, of property, n. 258. The commanders of military districts to protect the rights of persons and property, n. 276, p. 262, § 3.
RIGHTS. Exclusive rights to writings and discoveries may be se- cured to their authors and inventors for a limited time... (See Authors and Inventors, notes 107, 108.) RIGHTS of domestic security. No soldier shall, in time of peace, be quartered in any house without the consent of the owner, nor in time of war, but in a manner to be pre- scribed by law. Amendments..
RIGHTS. The enumeration, in the Constitution, of certain rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people. Amendments.... These certain rights defined, n. 268.
RIGHTS. A naturalized citizen possesses all the, of a native citizen, n. 93. And this right of naturalization was accorded to Congress, Id. The right of the naturalized citizen takes effect from birth, n. 274, p. 276. The rights of owners of slaves after emancipation, n. 274, pp. 277, 275, ROADS. Congress shall have power to establish post-offices and post-roads
(See Post-offices and Post-roads, notes 104-106.) · Post- roads defined, n. 106. The number of miles of, n. 105. ROBERDEAU, DANIEL, of Pennsylvania. Signed Articles of Con- federation, p. 21.
RODNEY CÆSAR, of Delaware. Signed the Declaration of Inde-
Signed Declaration of Inde-
RULES of proceedings. Each house of Congress may determine the rules of its proceedings....
RULES concerning captures. Congress shall have power to make rules concerning captures on land and water
This power existed in the Congress of the Confedera- tion, Art. IX. p. 14.
RULES and articles of war. Congress shall have power to make rules for the government and regulation of the land and naval forces..
RULES of the common law. No fact tried by a jury shall be other- wise re-examined in any court of the United States than according to the rules of the common law. Amend- ments...
RUNAWAY slaves, or persons held to service or labor, and fugi- tives from justice, shall be delivered up, &c... (See Fugitive, notes 223, 224, 225.)
RUSH, BENJAMIN, of Pennsylvania.
Independence, p. 7.-
Signed the Declaration of
RUTLEDGE, EDWARD, of South Carolina. Signed Declaration of
RUTLEDGE, JOHN. Chief-Justice and Associate Justice of the Supreme Court, n. 197, pp. 192, 193.
SCIENCE and useful arts. Congress shall have power to promote the progress of science and useful arts, by securing, for limited times, to authors and inventors, the exclusive right to their respective writings and discoveries
Science defined and distinguished from art, n. 107, p. 122. Science teaches us to know, art to do, n. 107, p. 122. Scudder, NATHANIEL, of New Jersey. Signed the Articles of Confederation, p. 21.
SEARCHES and seizures. The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects against un- reasonable searches and seizures shall not be violated, and no warrant shall issue but upon probable cause, supported by oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized. Amendments..
Searches are always unreasonable when without au- *hority of law, n. 251.
SEAT of government. Neither house, during the session of Con- gress, shall, without the consent of the other, adjourn for more than three days, nor to any other place than that in which the two houses shall be sitting
SEAT of government. Congress shall have power to exercise ex- clusive legislation in all cases whatsoever, over such dis- trict (not exceeding ten miles square) as may, by cession of particular States, and the acceptance of Congress, be- come the seat of the government of the United States, and to exercise like authority over all places purchased by consent of the legislature. of the State in which the same shall be, for the erection of forts, magazines, arsenals, dock-yards, and other needful buildings (See District of Columbia.)
SEAT of government of the United States. The list of electoral votes for President and Vice-President shall be transmit- ted, sealed, to the seat of the government of the United States, directed to the president of the Senate. Amend- ments ..
SEATS of senators. Terms at which the seats of the several classes of senators shall be vacated. SECESSION and nullification had the same poisonous root, Pref. p. vii. SECRECY. Each house of Congress shall keep a journal of its pro- ceedings, and from time to time publish the same, excepting such parts as may in their judgment require
SECRETARIES of different departments constituting cabinet of the President, n. 176.
SECRETARIES of War, of the Treasury, of the Interior, &c., hold their offices how long, n. 184, p. 179, § 1.
SECRETARY of State. Proclamation about thirteenth consti- tutional amendment, n. 274. Action of, on fourteenth amendment and views in regard to same, n. 275.
SECRETARY of the Treasury. Report of public debt, n. 78. SECRETARY of the Senate, at the close of each session to deliver to the Secretary of the Treasury, &c., a full list of the per- sons nominated and rejected, n. 184, p. 180, § 7.
SECRETARY of the Treasury. Report of, on the national debt, n. 78, p. 99. Holds his office during the Presidential term, n. 184, p. 179, § 1. Secretary of the Senate to report to the Secre- tary of the Treasury a list of officers, n. 184, p. 180, § 7.
President to notify the Secretary of the Treasury of desig- nations, &c., Id. p. 181, § 8.
SECURE the blessings of liberty.
The Constitution established to secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our pos- terity, &c. Preamble..
What liberty was intended to be secured, n. 12. How it was attained, Id.
SECURE. The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated. Amendments.. (See Houses, Searches.)
SECURITIES. Congress shall have power to provide for the punish- ment of counterfeiting the securities and current coin of the United States
SECURITY of a free State. A well regulated militia being neces- sary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed. Amend-
SEDGWICK, THEODORE. Speaker of the House of Reps, n. 26. SEIZURES. The right of the people to be secure against un- reasonable seizures shall not be violated. (See Searches.) Amendments ..
Searches and seizures are always unreasonable when not authorized by law, n. 257.
SENATE. It is intended to be a permanent body with perpetual existence, n. 31. How it might come to an end, Id.
SENATE and House of Representatives. The Congress of the United States shall consist of a Senate and House of Representa- tives ....
The Senate ought to be first defined, n. 15.
SENATE and House of Representatives. (See Congress.) SENATE. The Senate shall be composed of two senators from each State, chosen by the legislature for six years, and each senator shall have one vote
The subject considered, n. 28.
elections, n. 29. The law for electing, n. 30. SENATE. The Vice-President of the United States shall be Presi- dent of the Senate, but shall have no vote unless they be equally divided
List of Vice-Presidents, n. 37.
SENATE. The Senate shall choose their other officers, and also a President pro tempore, in the absence of the Vice- President, or when he shall exercise the office of presi- dent of the United States..
List of Presidents, pro tempore, n. 3S.
SENATE. The Senate shall have the sole power to try all im- peachments; when sitting for that purpose they shall be on oath or affirmation, When the President of the United States is tried, the Chief-Justice shall preside; and no person shall be convicted without the concurrence of two- thirds of the members present.......
(See Impeachment, notes 39, 40, 194.) SENATE. The judgment of the Senate, in cases of impeachment, shall not extend further than to removal from office, and disqualification to hold and enjoy an office of honor, trust, or profit under the United States, but the party convicted shall, nevertheless, be liable and subject to indictment, trial, judgment and punishment, according to law. SENATE of the United States. The Senate shall be the judge of the elections, returns, and qualifications of its own members; a majority shall constitute a quorum to do business, but a smaller number may adjourn from day to day, and may be authorized to compel the attendance of absent members, in such manner, and under such penal- ties, as that house may provide.
(See Qualifications, n. 46.)
SENATE. The Senate may determine the rules of its proceedings,
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