American Government and PoliticsMacmillan, 1910 - 772 páginas |
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... persons , arwick four each , and other The Massachusetts charter , ) . 487 . while providing that the original assembly sho representatives from each town or place , at tl thorized the assembly to alter this number at w the modern ...
... persons , arwick four each , and other The Massachusetts charter , ) . 487 . while providing that the original assembly sho representatives from each town or place , at tl thorized the assembly to alter this number at w the modern ...
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... persons , do er into a covenant for uniting Movement in Pennsylvania . 1760– ations . 2 66 themselves in a body . And to compleat this ditions are necessary : 1. That a certain time signed for assembling . 2. That the vote of th pass ...
... persons , do er into a covenant for uniting Movement in Pennsylvania . 1760– ations . 2 66 themselves in a body . And to compleat this ditions are necessary : 1. That a certain time signed for assembling . 2. That the vote of th pass ...
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... persons of his own ch riots and disorders , they held , were prefer government . The new American political system based had scarcely gone into effect before it began from many sources . The close of the Rev removed the prime cause for ...
... persons of his own ch riots and disorders , they held , were prefer government . The new American political system based had scarcely gone into effect before it began from many sources . The close of the Rev removed the prime cause for ...
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... persons , without designating which was to be President or Vice - President ; and then added : " The person having the greatest number of votes shall be President , if such number be a majority of the whole number of electors appointed ...
... persons , without designating which was to be President or Vice - President ; and then added : " The person having the greatest number of votes shall be President , if such number be a majority of the whole number of electors appointed ...
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... person , who acknowledges the being of God and believes in a future state of rewards and punishments , and who has attained to the age of one and twenty years and has been a resident and inhabitant in this state for the space of one ...
... person , who acknowledges the being of God and believes in a future state of rewards and punishments , and who has attained to the age of one and twenty years and has been a resident and inhabitant in this state for the space of one ...
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Página 718 - A landed interest, a manufacturing interest, a mercantile interest, a moneyed interest, with many lesser interests, grow up of necessity in civilized nations, and divide them into different classes actuated by different sentiments and views.
Página 49 - The diversity in the faculties of men, from which the rights of property originate, is not less an insuperable obstacle to a uniformity, of interests. The protection of these faculties is the first object of government.
Página 339 - International law is part of our law, and must be ascertained and administered by the courts of justice of appropriate jurisdiction, as often as questions of right depending upon it are duly presented for their determination.
Página 313 - ... the candid citizen must confess that if the policy of the Government, upon vital questions affecting the whole people, is to be irrevocably fixed by decisions of the Supreme Court, the instant they are made in ordinary litigation between parties in personal actions, the people will have ceased to be their own rulers, having to that extent practically resigned their government into the hands of that eminent tribunal.
Página 717 - But the most common and durable source of factions has been the various and unequal distribution of property. Those who hold and those who are without property have ever formed distinct interests in society.
Página 308 - If there should happen to be an irreconcilable variance between the two, that which has the superior obligation and validity ought, of course, to be preferred; in other words, the constitution ought to be preferred to the statute, the intention of the people to the intention of their agents.
Página 331 - It is our true policy to steer clear of permanent alliances with any portion of the foreign world...
Página 61 - Resolved by the senate and house of representatives of the United States of America in congress assembled (two-thirds of both houses concurring,) That the following article be proposed to the legislatures of the several states as an amendment to the constitution of the United States...
Página 722 - ... multiplied by the number of his shares of stock shall equal, or to distribute them on the same principle among as many candidates as he shall think fit; and such directors or managers shall not be elected in any other manner.
Página 64 - They would contain various exceptions to powers not granted; and, on this very account, would afford a colorable pretext to claim more than were granted. For why declare that things shall not be done which there is no power to do?