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... exercises either kind of power , -an absolute separation is an impossibility . Each department checks the other two . The presi- dent with the veto power offers a check to hasty legislation . The power of congress in matters pertaining ...
... exercises either kind of power , -an absolute separation is an impossibility . Each department checks the other two . The presi- dent with the veto power offers a check to hasty legislation . The power of congress in matters pertaining ...
Page 18
... exercises coercive power over the house of lords . When the lords show a disposition to refuse to pass a measure , the commons may , through the prime min- ister , threaten to create more peers , or to abolish the house of lords ...
... exercises coercive power over the house of lords . When the lords show a disposition to refuse to pass a measure , the commons may , through the prime min- ister , threaten to create more peers , or to abolish the house of lords ...
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... exercise any of the powers of either of the other de- partments , there is not a state in the union that does not have a mixed form of government , officers exer- cising powers of two or three departments as they do in the national ...
... exercise any of the powers of either of the other de- partments , there is not a state in the union that does not have a mixed form of government , officers exer- cising powers of two or three departments as they do in the national ...
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... exercise of which he was responsible to congress alone . Executive He was commander - in - chief with power to appoint all officers below the rank of general officer . He appointed all county and town- ship officers until the national ...
... exercise of which he was responsible to congress alone . Executive He was commander - in - chief with power to appoint all officers below the rank of general officer . He appointed all county and town- ship officers until the national ...
Page 32
... exercise absolute veto power . The governor had power to convene , prorogue , and dissolve the general assembly . Two immortal sentences that have vastly influenced ORDINANCE OF 1787 33 legislative acts and public opinion are 32 ...
... exercise absolute veto power . The governor had power to convene , prorogue , and dissolve the general assembly . Two immortal sentences that have vastly influenced ORDINANCE OF 1787 33 legislative acts and public opinion are 32 ...
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Page 153 - ... the United States, in Congress assembled. The United States, in Congress assembled, shall never engage in a war, nor grant letters of marque and reprisal in time of peace...
Page 153 - And the officers and men so clothed, armed, and equipped, shall march to the place appointed, and within the time agreed on by the United States in congress assembled.
Page 155 - And the articles of this confederation shall be inviolably observed by every State, and the Union shall be perpetual; nor shall any alteration at any time hereafter be made in any of them; unless such alteration be agreed to in a Congress of the United States, and be afterwards confirmed by the Legislatures of every State.
Page 161 - The navigable waters leading into the Mississippi and St. Lawrence, and the carrying places between the same, shall be common highways, and forever free, as well to the inhabitants of the said territory, as to the citizens of the United States, and those of any other states that may be admitted into the confederacy, without any tax, impost, or duty therefor (48).
Page 151 - ... until the number shall be reduced to thirteen ; and from that number not less than seven, nor more than nine names as congress shall direct, shall in the presence of congress be drawn out by lot, and the persons whose names shall be so drawn or any five of them, shall be commissioners or judges, to hear and finally determine the controversy, so always as a major part of the judges who shall hear the cause shall agree in the determination...
Page 160 - No man shall be deprived of his liberty or property, but by the judgment of his peers, or the law of the land, and should the public exigencies make it necessary, for the common preservation, to take any person's property, or to demand his particular services, full compensation shall be made for the same.
Page 153 - 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...
Page 153 - States ; and the officers, and men so clothed and equipped, shall march to the place appointed, and within the time agreed on by the United States in Congress assembled ; but if the United States in Congress assembled shall, on consideration of circumstances, judge proper that any State should not raise men, or should raise a smaller number than its quota, and that any other State should raise a greater number of men than the quota thereof, such extra number shall be raised, officered...
Page 148 - Freedom of speech and debate in Congress shall not be impeached or questioned in any court, or place out of Congress...
Page 161 - The said territory, and the States which may be formed therein, shall forever remain a part of this Confederacy of the United States of America, subject to the Articles of Confederation, and to such alterations therein as shall be constitutionally made; and to all the Acts and Ordinances of the United States in Congress assembled, conformable thereto.