Cases and Opinions on Constitutional Law, and Various Points of English Jurisprudence: Collected and Digested from Official Documents and Other Sources : with Notes |
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Page 351 - ... upon such evidence of criminality as, according to the laws of the place where the fugitive or person so charged shall be found, would justify his apprehension and commitment for trial, if the crime or offence had there been committed...
Page 290 - That there shall be no future confiscations made, nor any prosecutions commenced against any person or persons, for or by reason of the part which he or they may have taken in the present war; and that no person shall on that account suffer any future loss or damage, either in his person, liberty, or property...
Page 499 - The fourth section of the fourth article of the constitution of the United States provides that the United States shall guarantee to every State in the Union a republican form of government, and shall protect each of them against invasion ; and on the application of the legislature or of the executive (when the legislature cannot be convened) against domestic violence.
Page 306 - Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Georgia, to be free, sovereign and independent States; that he treats with them as such, and for himself, his heirs and successors, relinquishes all claims to the Government, propriety and territorial rights of the same, and every part thereof.
Page 498 - That no district commander or member of the board of registration, or any of the officers or appointees acting under them, shall be bound in his action by any opinion of any civil officer of the United States.
Page 528 - The parties belligerent in a public war are independent nations. But it is not necessary to, constitute war, that both parties should be acknowledged as independent nations or sovereign States. A war may exist where one of the belligerents claims sovereign rights as against the other.
Page 495 - The legislative department is everywhere extending the sphere of its activity, and drawing all power into its impetuous vortex.
Page 495 - Committee, that a national Government ought to be established, consisting of a supreme Legislative, Executive and Judiciary.
Page 507 - Constitution, which provides that no person shall be deprived of life, liberty and property, without due process of law. And an Act of Congress which deprives a citizen of the United States of his liberty or property, merely because he came himself or brought...
Page 497 - That said rebel States shall be divided into military districts, and made subject to the military authority of the United States, as hereinafter prescribed, and for that purpose Virginia shall constitute the first district; North Carolina and South Carolina the second district; Georgia, Alabama, and Florida the third district; Mississippi and Arkansas the fourth district; and Louisiana and Texas the fifth district.
Bibliographic information
| Title | Cases and Opinions on Constitutional Law, and Various Points of English Jurisprudence: Collected and Digested from Official Documents and Other Sources : with Notes Issues 43539-43545 of 19th-century legal treatises Issue 97, Part 622 of Common law abroad: General treatises Volume 89 of Law books recommended for libraries: Constitutional law |
| Author | William Forsyth |
| Publisher | Stevens & Haynes, 1869 |
| Original from | Harvard University |
| Digitized | 6 Aug 2007 |
| Length | 572 pages |
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