The Writings of Thomas Jefferson: Miscellaneous: 4. Parliamentary manual; 5. The anas; 6. Miscellaneous papersTaylor & Maury, 1854 |
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... things done in the House in a Parliamentary course , 1 Rush , 663. — For he is not to have privilege contra morem parliamentarium , to exceed the bounds . and limits of his place and duty . - Com . p . If an offence be committed by a ...
... things done in the House in a Parliamentary course , 1 Rush , 663. — For he is not to have privilege contra morem parliamentarium , to exceed the bounds . and limits of his place and duty . - Com . p . If an offence be committed by a ...
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... things the rules of proceedings are to be the same as in the House . — Scob . 39 . SECTION XIII . EXAMINATION OF WITNESSES . COMMON fame is a good ground for the House to proceed by in- quiry , and even to accusation . - Resolution of ...
... things the rules of proceedings are to be the same as in the House . — Scob . 39 . SECTION XIII . EXAMINATION OF WITNESSES . COMMON fame is a good ground for the House to proceed by in- quiry , and even to accusation . - Resolution of ...
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... thing at a time , follow up a subject while it is fresh , and till it is done with ; clear the House of business , gradatim as it is brought on , and prevent , to a certain degree , its immense accumulation towards the close of the ...
... thing at a time , follow up a subject while it is fresh , and till it is done with ; clear the House of business , gradatim as it is brought on , and prevent , to a certain degree , its immense accumulation towards the close of the ...
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... thing worth their hearing . - 2 Hats . 77 , 78 . If repeated calls do not produce order , the Speaker may call by his name any member obstinately persisting in irregularity ; whereupon the House may require the member to withdraw . He ...
... thing worth their hearing . - 2 Hats . 77 , 78 . If repeated calls do not produce order , the Speaker may call by his name any member obstinately persisting in irregularity ; whereupon the House may require the member to withdraw . He ...
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... thing , is where he calls for the execution of a subsisting order of the House . Here , there having been already a resolution , any member has a right to insist that the Speaker , or any other whose duty it is , shall carry it into ...
... thing , is where he calls for the execution of a subsisting order of the House . Here , there having been already a resolution , any member has a right to insist that the Speaker , or any other whose duty it is , shall carry it into ...
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Seite 464 - Constitution for the United States and of amendments thereto, they constituted a general government for special purposes, delegated to that government certain definite powers, reserving, each State to itself, the residuary mass of right to their own self-government; and that whensoever the general government assumes undelegated powers, its acts are unauthoritative, void, and of no force...
Seite 487 - that the laws of the several States, except where the Constitution, treaties, or statutes of the United States shall otherwise require or provide, shall be regarded as rules of decision in trials at common law in the courts of the United States, in cases where they apply.
Seite 471 - That they will view this as seizing the rights of the States and consolidating them in the hands of the General Government with...
Seite 466 - States," which does abridge the freedom of the press, is not law, but is altogether void and of no effect. IV. Resolved, that alien friends are under the jurisdiction and protection of the laws of the State wherein they are ; that no power over them has been delegated to the United States, nor prohibited to the individual States distinct from their power over citizens ; and it being true as a general principle, and one of the amendments to the Constitution having also declared that " the powers not...
Seite 8 - Nor may their lands or goods be distrained: 7th. Nor their persons assaulted, or characters traduced. And the period of time covered by privilege, before and after the session, with the practice of short prorogations under the connivance of the Crown, amounts in fact to a perpetual protection against the course of justice. In one instance, indeed, it has been relaxed by the 10 G.
Seite 470 - ... in questions of power, then, let no more be heard of confidence in man, but bind him down from mischief by the chains of the Constitution.
Seite 465 - Government created by this compact was not made the exclusive or final judge of the extent of the powers delegated to itself; since that would have made its discretion, and not the Constitution, the measure of its powers; but that as in all other cases of compact among parties having no common judge, each party has an equal right to judge for itself, as well of infractions, as of the mode and measure of redress.
Seite 466 - States or to the people ; that thus was manifested their determination to retain to themselves the right of judging how far the licentiousness of speech and of the press may be abridged without lessening their useful freedom, and how far those abuses which cannot be separated from their use should be tolerated rather than the use be destroyed...
Seite 55 - ... successively on the longest. Otherwise it would be in the power of the mover, by inserting originally a short time, to preclude the possibility of a longer; for till the short time is struck out, you cannot...
Seite 280 - ... to the enemies of the other, shall be deemed contraband so as to induce confiscation or condemnation and a loss of property to individuals. Nevertheless it shall be lawful to stop such vessels and articles, and to detain them for such length of time as the captors may think...