Civil Government in the United States: Considered with Some Reference to Its OriginsHoughton, Mifflin, 1890 - 360 pages |
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... Representatives at Washington . It is partly because too many of our citizens fail to realize that local government is a worthy study , that we find it making so much trouble for us . The " bummers " and " boodlers " do not find the ...
... Representatives at Washington . It is partly because too many of our citizens fail to realize that local government is a worthy study , that we find it making so much trouble for us . The " bummers " and " boodlers " do not find the ...
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... Representative Township - County System in the West . The town - meeting in Michigan · 88 89 Conflict between township and county systems in Illinois 89 , 90 Effects of the Ordinance of 1787 · Intense vitality of the township system ...
... Representative Township - County System in the West . The town - meeting in Michigan · 88 89 Conflict between township and county systems in Illinois 89 , 90 Effects of the Ordinance of 1787 · Intense vitality of the township system ...
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... representative governments ; House of Bur- gesses in Virginia Company of Massachusetts Bay Transfer of the charter from England to Massachusetts The General Court ; assistants and deputies Virtual independence of Massachusetts , and ...
... representative governments ; House of Bur- gesses in Virginia Company of Massachusetts Bay Transfer of the charter from England to Massachusetts The General Court ; assistants and deputies Virtual independence of Massachusetts , and ...
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... representative assembly , which alone could impose taxes 154 154 · 154 , 155 The governor's council was a kind of upper house The colonial government was much like the English system in miniature The Americans never admitted the ...
... representative assembly , which alone could impose taxes 154 154 · 154 , 155 The governor's council was a kind of upper house The colonial government was much like the English system in miniature The Americans never admitted the ...
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... Representatives The three fifths compromise The Connecticut compromise The Senate Electoral districts ; the " Gerrymander " The election at large Time of assembling Privileges of members The Speaker Impeachment in England ; in the ...
... Representatives The three fifths compromise The Connecticut compromise The Senate Electoral districts ; the " Gerrymander " The election at large Time of assembling Privileges of members The Speaker Impeachment in England ; in the ...
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Page 298 - New States may be admitted by the Congress into this Union ; but no new State shall be formed or erected within the jurisdiction of any other State ; nor any State be formed by the junction of two or more States, or parts of States, without the consent of the legislatures of the States concerned as well as of the Congress.
Page 297 - Congress shall make. 3. The trial of all crimes, except in cases of impeachment, shall be by jury; and such trial shall be held in the State where the said crimes shall have been committed ; but when not committed within any State, the trial shall be at such place or places as the Congress may by law have directed.
Page 327 - That the raising or keeping a standing army within the kingdom in time of peace, unless it be with consent of parliament, is against law.
Page 289 - Judgment in cases of impeachment shall not extend further than to removal from office, and disqualification to hold and enjoy any office of honour, trust, or profit under the United States; but the party convicted shall, nevertheless, be liable and subject to indictment, trial, judgment, and punishment, according to law.
Page 298 - States. 2 A person charged in any State with treason, felony, or other crime, who shall flee from justice, and be found in another State, shall on demand of the executive authority of the State from which he fled, be delivered up to be removed to the State having jurisdiction of the crime.
Page 292 - ... 2. The privilege of the writ of habeas corpus shall not be suspended, unless when, in cases of rebellion or invasion, the public safety may require it. 3. No bill of attainder, or ex post facto law, shall be passed. 4. No capitation, or other direct tax, shall be laid, unless in proportion to the census or enumeration hereinbefore directed to be taken.
Page 293 - State be obliged to enter, clear, or pay duties in another. 7. No money shall be drawn from the Treasury but in consequence of appropriations made by law; and a regular statement and account of the receipts and expenditures of all public money shall be published from time to time. 8. No title of nobility shall be granted by the United States; and no person holding any office of profit or trust under them shall, without the consent of the Congress, accept of any present, emolument, office, or title,...
Page 290 - Each house shall keep a journal of its proceedings, and from time to time publish the same, excepting such parts as may in their judgment require secrecy, and the yeas and nays of the members of either house on any question shall, at the desire of one fifth of those present, be entered on the journal.
Page 282 - When land forces are raised by any state for the common defence, all officers of or under the rank of colonel shall be appointed by the legislature of each state respectively, by whom such forces shall be raised, or in such manner as such state shall direct ; and all vacancies shall be filled up by the state which first made the appointment. ARTICLE VIII. All charges of war, and all other expenses that shall be incurred for the common defence or general welfare, and allowed by the United States in...
Page 300 - Done in convention, by the unanimous consent of the States present, the seventeenth day of September, in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and eighty-seven, and of the independence of the United States of America the twelfth.