The Voter's Text Book, Comprising a Collection of the Most Important Documents and Statistics, Connected with the Political History of America |
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He has constrained our fellow - citizens , taken captive on the high seas , to bear arms against their country , to become the executioners of their friends and brethren , or to fall themselves by their hands .
He has constrained our fellow - citizens , taken captive on the high seas , to bear arms against their country , to become the executioners of their friends and brethren , or to fall themselves by their hands .
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... or from prohibiting the exportation or importation of any species of goods or commodities whatsoever - of establishing rules for deciding in all cases what captures on land or water shall be legal , and in what manner prizes taken ...
... or from prohibiting the exportation or importation of any species of goods or commodities whatsoever - of establishing rules for deciding in all cases what captures on land or water shall be legal , and in what manner prizes taken ...
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No capitation , or other direct tax shall be laid , unless in proportion to the census or enumeration hereinbefore directed to be taken . No tax or duty shall be laid on articles exported from No preference shall be given by any ...
No capitation , or other direct tax shall be laid , unless in proportion to the census or enumeration hereinbefore directed to be taken . No tax or duty shall be laid on articles exported from No preference shall be given by any ...
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But , in choosing the President , the votes shall be taken by States , the representation from each State hav . ing one vote . A quorum for this purpose shall consist of a member or members from two - thirds of the States , and a ...
But , in choosing the President , the votes shall be taken by States , the representation from each State hav . ing one vote . A quorum for this purpose shall consist of a member or members from two - thirds of the States , and a ...
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a witness against himself , nor be deprived of life , liberty , or property , without due process of law ; nor shall private property be taken for public use without just compensation . ARTICLE VI . In all criminal prosecutions ...
a witness against himself , nor be deprived of life , liberty , or property , without due process of law ; nor shall private property be taken for public use without just compensation . ARTICLE VI . In all criminal prosecutions ...
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Page 19 - States under their direction; to appoint one of their number to preside; provided, that no person be allowed to serve In the office of president more than one year in any term of three years; to ascertain the necessary sums of money to be raised for the service of the United States, and to appropriate and apply the same for defraying the public...
Page 54 - The basis of our political systems is the right of the people to make and to alter their constitutions of government. But the Constitution which at any time exists, until changed by an explicit and authentic act of the whole people, is sacredly obligatory upon all.
Page 21 - The committee of the states, or any nine of them, shall be authorized to execute, in the recess of congress, such of the powers of congress as the united states in congress assembled, by the consent of nine states, shall from, time to time think expedient to vest them with...
Page 51 - Union to your collective and individual happiness ; that you should cherish a cordial, habitual, and immovable attachment to it, accustoming yourselves to think and speak of it as of the Palladium of your political safety and prosperity; watching for its preservation with jealous anxiety; discountenancing whatever may suggest even a suspicion that it can in any event be abandoned, and indignantly frowning upon the first dawning of every attempt to alienate any portion of our Country from the rest,...
Page 289 - States; and such citizens of every race and color, without regard to any previous condition of slavery or involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall have the same right in every State and Territory in the United States to make and enforce contracts; to sue, be parties, and give evidence; to inherit, purchase, lease, sell, hold, and convey real and personal property; and to full and equal benefit of all laws and proceedings for the...
Page 90 - ... shall be formed in the said territory; to provide also for the establishment of states, and permanent government therein, and for their admission to a share in the federal councils on an equal footing with the original states, at as early periods as may be consistent with the general interest...
Page 52 - Any other tenure by which the West can hold this essential advantage, whether derived from its own separate strength, or from an apostate and unnatural connection with any foreign power, must be intrinsically precarious.
Page 20 - ... armed and equipped in the same manner as the quota of such State, unless the legislature of such State shall judge that such extra number cannot be safely spared out of the same, in which case they shall raise, officer, clothe, arm and equip as many of such extra number as they judge can be safely spared...
Page 99 - ... that the executive will on the first day of january aforesaid by proclamation designate the states and parts of states if any in which the people thereof respectively shall then be in rebellion against the united states and the fact that any state or the people thereof shall on that day be in good faith represented in the congress of the united states by members chosen thereto at elections wherein a majority of the qualified voters of such...
Page 57 - A just estimate of that love of power, and proneness to abuse it, which predominates in the human heart, is sufficient to satisfy us of the truth of this position. The necessity of reciprocal checks in the exercise of political power, by dividing and distributing it into different depositories...
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| Title | The Voter's Text Book, Comprising a Collection of the Most Important Documents and Statistics, Connected with the Political History of America |
| Author | James M. Hiatt |
| Compiled by | James M. Hiatt |
| Publisher | Asher, Adams & Higgins, 1868 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 23 May 2006 |
| Length | 382 pages |
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