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... persons -Habeas Corpus - Bills of Attainder or ex post facto laws - Taxes , how apportioned - No export duty - No commercial preferences - No money drawn from treasury , unless , & c . -No title of nobility - Officers not to receive ...
... persons -Habeas Corpus - Bills of Attainder or ex post facto laws - Taxes , how apportioned - No export duty - No commercial preferences - No money drawn from treasury , unless , & c . -No title of nobility - Officers not to receive ...
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... Persons held to service having escaped , to be deliv . ered up . 23 . SECT . 3. Admission of new States tory and other property . 23 . - Power of Congress over terri- SECT . 4. Republican form of government guaranteed - Each State to be ...
... Persons held to service having escaped , to be deliv . ered up . 23 . SECT . 3. Admission of new States tory and other property . 23 . - Power of Congress over terri- SECT . 4. Republican form of government guaranteed - Each State to be ...
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... persons not to hold certain offices - Public debt inviolate - No claims on ac- count of slavery to be paid- Power of ... person shall be a representative who shall not have at tained to the age of twenty - five years , Constitution of ...
... persons not to hold certain offices - Public debt inviolate - No claims on ac- count of slavery to be paid- Power of ... person shall be a representative who shall not have at tained to the age of twenty - five years , Constitution of ...
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... persons . The actual enumeration shall be made within three years after the first meeting of the congress of the United States , and within every subsequent term of ten years , in such manner as they shall by law direct . The num- ber ...
... persons . The actual enumeration shall be made within three years after the first meeting of the congress of the United States , and within every subsequent term of ten years , in such manner as they shall by law direct . The num- ber ...
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... 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 ...
... 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 ...
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Page 50 - ... full power and authority are hereby given and granted to the said general court, from time to time, to make, ordain and establish all manner of wholesome and reasonable orders, laws, statutes and ordinances, directions and instructions, either with penalties or without, so as the same be not repugnant or contrary to this constitution, as they shall judge to be for the good and welfare of this Commonwealth, and for the government and ordering thereof, and of the subjects of the same...
Page 41 - God, and for the support and maintenance of public protestant teachers of piety, religion and morality, in all cases where such provision shall not be made voluntarily.
Page 44 - And no subject shall be arrested, imprisoned, despoiled, or deprived of his property, immunities, or privileges, put out of the protection of the law, exiled, or deprived of his life, liberty, or estate, but by the judgment of his peers, or the law of the land.
Page 40 - And no subject shall be hurt, molested, or restrained, in his person, liberty, or estate, for worshipping GOD in the manner and season most agreeable to the dictates of his own conscience; or for his religious profession of sentiments; provided he doth not disturb the public peace, or obstruct others in their religious worship.
Page 92 - No person shall have the right to vote, or be eligible to office under the constitution of this commonwealth, who shall not be able to read the constitution in the English language, and write his name : provided, however, that the provisions of this amendment shall not apply to any person prevented by a physical disability from complying with its requisitions, nor to any person who now has the right to vote, nor to &ny persons who shall be sixty years of age or upwards at the time this amendment...
Page 42 - The people of this commonwealth have the sole and exclusive right of governing themselves, as a free, sovereign, and independent State, and do, and forever hereafter shall, exercise and enjoy every power, jurisdiction, and right, which is not, or may not hereafter be, by them expressly delegated to the United States of America, in Congress assembled.
Page 41 - ... the institution of the public worship of God, and of public instructions in piety, religion and morality; therefore, to promote their happiness, and to secure the good order and preservation of their government, the people of this Commonwealth have a right to invest their Legislature with power to authorize and require...
Page 73 - And the governor, lieutenant-governor, and councillors, shall make and subscribe the said declaration, in the presence of the two houses of assembly; and the senators and representatives, first elected under this constitution, before the president and five of the council of the former constitution ; and forever afterwards before the governor and council for the time being.] And...
Page 62 - ... agreeably to the rules and regulations of the constitution, and the laws of the land, and not otherwise. Provided, that the said governor shall not, at any time hereafter, by virtue of any power by this constitution granted, or hereafter to be granted to him by the legislature, transport any of the inhabitants of...
Page 41 - And every denomination of Christians, demeaning themselves peaceably, and as good subjects of the commonwealth, shall be equally under the protection of the law: and no subordination of any one sect or denomination to another shall ever be established by law.] IV.