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... governor of a State is authorized to fill a vacancy existing at the beginning of a Senatorial term . April 27 , 1797 , William Cocke was appointed a Senator from the State of Tennessee by the governor , his term having expired on the ...
... governor of a State is authorized to fill a vacancy existing at the beginning of a Senatorial term . April 27 , 1797 , William Cocke was appointed a Senator from the State of Tennessee by the governor , his term having expired on the ...
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... governor could not appoint as to a full term . In 1825 for the first time this question was elaborately and exhaustively debated by the ablest lawyers then in the United States , and it was decided that the governor did not have the ...
... governor could not appoint as to a full term . In 1825 for the first time this question was elaborately and exhaustively debated by the ablest lawyers then in the United States , and it was decided that the governor did not have the ...
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... governor of a State to keep full the representation of his State in the Senate should have a limitation upon it that ... governor to be his own successor on the 22d of April , 1797. The second case was that of Uriah Tracy , a Senator ...
... governor of a State to keep full the representation of his State in the Senate should have a limitation upon it that ... governor to be his own successor on the 22d of April , 1797. The second case was that of Uriah Tracy , a Senator ...
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... governor had no right to appoint in articipation of a vacancy . And the first suggestion , so far as I know - I do not remember the Niles's Register statement which the Senator read - that anybody put the Lanman case upon any other ...
... governor had no right to appoint in articipation of a vacancy . And the first suggestion , so far as I know - I do not remember the Niles's Register statement which the Senator read - that anybody put the Lanman case upon any other ...
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... governor might lawfully make this ap- pointment before the resignation of Mr. Reagan actually took effect . The provision of the Constitution affecting the question is as follows : " ART . I , Sec . 3. The Senate of the United States ...
... governor might lawfully make this ap- pointment before the resignation of Mr. Reagan actually took effect . The provision of the Constitution affecting the question is as follows : " ART . I , Sec . 3. The Senate of the United States ...
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Page 117 - The government of the United States, then, though limited in its powers, is supreme; and its laws, when made in pursuance of the Constitution, form the supreme law of the land, ' ' anything in the Constitution or laws of any State to the contrary notwithstanding.
Page 373 - They had for more than a century before been regarded as beings of an inferior order; and altogether unfit to associate with the white race, either in social or political relations; and so far inferior, that they had no rights which the white man was bound to respect; and that the negro might justly and lawfully be reduced to slavery for his benefit.
Page 320 - West Virginia, and also the counties of Berkeley, Accomac, Northampton, Elizabeth City, York, Princess Anne, and Norfolk, including the cities of Norfolk and Portsmouth), and which excepted parts are for the present left precisely as if this proclamation were not issued.
Page 219 - States having common-law jurisdiction, and a seal and clerk, two years, at least, prior to his admission, that it is bona fide his intention to become a citizen of the United States; and to renounce forever all allegiance and fidelity to any foreign prince, potentate, state, or sovereignty, and, particularly, by name, to the prince, potentate, state, or sovereignty of which the alien may be at the time a citizen or subject.
Page xxi - Senators. The Congress shall assemble at least once in every Year, and such Meeting shall be on the first Monday in December, unless they shall by Law appoint a different Day.
Page xxi - No Person shall be a Senator who shall not have attained to the Age of thirty Years, and been nine Years a Citizen of the United States, and who shall not, when elected, be an Inhabitant of that State for which he shall be chosen. 'The Vice President of the United States shall be President of the Senate, but shall have no Vote, unless they be equally divided.
Page 491 - SECTION 1. The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any state on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude. SEC. 2. The congress shall have power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation.
Page 217 - ... that he will support the constitution of the United States, and that he doth absolutely and entirely renounce and abjure all allegiance and fidelity to every foreign prince, potentate, state, or sovereignty, whatever, and particularly, by name, the prince, potentate, state, or sovereignty, whereof he was before a citizen or subject ; which proceedings shall be recorded by the clerk of the court.
Page 43 - That the legislature of each State which shall be chosen next preceding the expiration of the time for which any senator was elected to represent such State in Congress, shall, on the second Tuesday after the meeting and organization thereof, proceed to elect a senator in Congress...
Page xxii - If no person receives such majority on the first day, the joint assembly shall meet at twelve o'clock meridian of each succeeding day during the session of the legislature, and shall take at least one vote, until a Senator is elected.