A Familiar Exposition of the Constitution of the United States: Containing a Brief Commentary on Every Clause, Explaining the True Nature, Reasons, and Objects Thereof; Designed for the Use of School Libraries and General ReadersAmerican Book Company, 1840 - 372 Seiten |
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... terms , which the policy of their more powerful neigh- bors should impose upon them . What could Rhode Island , or New Jersey , or Delaware , accomplish against the will , or the resentments , of the formidable States , which surround ...
... terms , which the policy of their more powerful neigh- bors should impose upon them . What could Rhode Island , or New Jersey , or Delaware , accomplish against the will , or the resentments , of the formidable States , which surround ...
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... term of office and the organization of each department different . For objects of permanent and paramount importance , it has given to the judicial department a tenure of office during good beha- vior ; while it has limited each of the ...
... term of office and the organization of each department different . For objects of permanent and paramount importance , it has given to the judicial department a tenure of office during good beha- vior ; while it has limited each of the ...
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... term of service of the Representa tives . It is two years . This period , with reference to the nature of the duties to be performed by the members , to the knowledge and experience essential to a right per- formance of them , and to ...
... term of service of the Representa tives . It is two years . This period , with reference to the nature of the duties to be performed by the members , to the knowledge and experience essential to a right per- formance of them , and to ...
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... term of years , and excluding Indians no taxed , three fifths of all other persons . The actual enu- meration shall be made within three years after the first meeting of the Congress of the United States , and within every subsequent term ...
... term of years , and excluding Indians no taxed , three fifths of all other persons . The actual enu- meration shall be made within three years after the first meeting of the Congress of the United States , and within every subsequent term ...
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... term of years were too few to produce any sensible effect in the enumeration . The real difficulty was , as to slaves , who were included under the mild ap pellation of " all other persons . " Three fifths of the slaves are added to the ...
... term of years were too few to produce any sensible effect in the enumeration . The real difficulty was , as to slaves , who were included under the mild ap pellation of " all other persons . " Three fifths of the slaves are added to the ...
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