Political Science and Comparative Constitutional Law, Volume 1

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Page 101 - to take into consideration the situation of the United States, to devise such further provisions as shall appear to them necessary to render the constitution of the federal government adequate to the exigencies of the Union ; and to report such an act for that purpose to the United States in Congress assembled,
Page 145 - of America in Congress assembled, twothirds 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 ; which when ratified by three-fourths of the said legislatures shall be valid as part of the said constitution
Page 269 - votes of the electors shall be the Vice-President. But if there should remain two or more who have equal votes, the Senate shall choose from them by ballot the Vice-President.] The Congress may determine the time of
Page 271 - the United States. Section 4. The President, Vice-President and all civil officers of the United States, shall be removed from office on impeachment for, and conviction of, treason, bribery, or other high crimes and misdemeanors. ARTICLE III. Section i. The judicial power of the United States,
Page 205 - that it shall be lawful for the President of the United States to employ such part of the land or naval forces of the United States or of the militia as shall be necessary to aid in the execution of judicial process issued under this act.
Page 275 - for a redress of grievances. Article II. — A well-regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed. Article III. — No soldier shall, in time
Page 274 - Carroll VIRGINIA. John Blair — James Madison Jr. NORTH CAROLINA. Wm. Blount rlchd dobbs spaight Hu Williamson SOUTH CAROLINA. j. rutledge Charles Cotesworth Pinckney Charles Pinckney Pierce Butler. GEORGIA. William Few Abr Baldwin WILLIAM JACKSON, Secretary ARTICLES In Addition to, and Amendment of
Page 202 - all persons within the jurisdiction of the United States the full and equal enjoyment of the accommodations, advantages, facilities and privileges of inns, public conveyances on land or water, theatres and other places of public amusements,
Page 202 - and other places of public amusements, subject only to the conditions and limitations established by law and applicable alike to citizens of every race and color, regardless of any previous condition of servitude,
Page 196 - existing in the common and statute law of England before the emigration of our ancestors, and which are shown not to have been unsuited to their civil and political condition by having been acted on by them after the settlement of this country.

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