On Civil Liberty and Self-government, 1. köideR. Bentley, 1853 - 552 pages |
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... ELECTIONS . XVII . PARLIAMENTARY LAW AND USAGE . THE SPEAKER . - TWO HOUSES . THE VETO . • 139 • 148 166 -XVIII . INDEPENDENCE OF THE JUDICIARY , THE LAW , JUS , COM- MON LAW . · XIX . INDEPENDENCE OF JUS , SELF - DEVELOPMENT OF LAW ...
... ELECTIONS . XVII . PARLIAMENTARY LAW AND USAGE . THE SPEAKER . - TWO HOUSES . THE VETO . • 139 • 148 166 -XVIII . INDEPENDENCE OF THE JUDICIARY , THE LAW , JUS , COM- MON LAW . · XIX . INDEPENDENCE OF JUS , SELF - DEVELOPMENT OF LAW ...
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... ELECTIONS , ELECTION STATIstics , and GENE- RAL VOTES OF YES OR NO II . A PAPER ON THE ABUSE OF THE PARDONING POWER III . A PAPER ON SUBJECTS CONNECTED WITH THE INQUISITO- RIAL TRIAL AND THE LAWS OF EVIDENCE . IV . MAGNA CHARTA OF KING ...
... ELECTIONS , ELECTION STATIstics , and GENE- RAL VOTES OF YES OR NO II . A PAPER ON THE ABUSE OF THE PARDONING POWER III . A PAPER ON SUBJECTS CONNECTED WITH THE INQUISITO- RIAL TRIAL AND THE LAWS OF EVIDENCE . IV . MAGNA CHARTA OF KING ...
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... election should be made responsible to the people - in fact , an elective despotism . Is there an American or Englishman living who would call such a political monstrosity freedom , even if the elected despot would allow himself to be ...
... election should be made responsible to the people - in fact , an elective despotism . Is there an American or Englishman living who would call such a political monstrosity freedom , even if the elected despot would allow himself to be ...
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... ELECTIONS . 28. THE prominent points of a national representative government , considered as a guarantee of liberty ... election of laws , and in the organization of the representative legislature , with its own protection and liberties ...
... ELECTIONS . 28. THE prominent points of a national representative government , considered as a guarantee of liberty ... election of laws , and in the organization of the representative legislature , with its own protection and liberties ...
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... elections by the people , or whether there shall be double elections ; that is to say , elections of electors by the constituents , which electors elect the representative . It may be safely asserted that the Anglican people are ...
... elections by the people , or whether there shall be double elections ; that is to say , elections of electors by the constituents , which electors elect the representative . It may be safely asserted that the Anglican people are ...
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Page 454 - The United States, in Congress assembled, shall also have the sole and exclusive right and power of regulating the alloy and value of coin struck by their own authority, or by that of the respective states ; fixing the standard of weights and measures throughout the United States; regulating the trade and managing all affairs with the Indians not members of any of the states ; provided that the legislative right of any state within its own limits be not infringed or violated...
Page 453 - ... same time claimed to have originated antecedent to such settlement of jurisdiction, shall, on the petition of either party to the Congress of the United States, be finally determined, as near as may be, in the same manner as is before prescribed for deciding disputes respecting territorial jurisdiction between different states.
Page 467 - The Congress shall have power to dispose of and make all needful rules and regulations respecting the territory or other property belonging to the United States ; and nothing in this Constitution shall be so, construed as to prejudice any claims of the United States, or of any particular state. SECTION 4. The United States shall guarantee to every state in this Union, a republican form of government, and shall protect each of them against invasion, and on application of the legislature, or of the...
Page 452 - ... the United States in congress assembled shall from time to time direct and appoint. The taxes for paying that proportion shall be laid and levied by the authority and direction of the legislatures of the several states, within the time agreed upon by the United States in congress assembled. AET. IX. The United States in congress assembled shall have the sole and exclusive right and power of determining on peace and war...
Page 467 - No person held to service or labour in one State, under the laws thereof, escaping into another, shall, in consequence of any law or regulation therein, be discharged from such service or labour, but shall be delivered up on claim of the party to whom such service or labour may be due. Section 3. 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...
Page 449 - If any person, guilty of or charged with treason, felony, or other high misdemeanor, in any State, shall flee from justice, and be found in any of the United States, he shall, upon demand of the Governor, or executive power of the State from which he fled, be delivered up, and removed to the State having jurisdiction of his offence.
Page 446 - He is, at this time, transporting large armies of foreign mercenaries to complete the works of death, desolation, and tyranny, already begun, with circumstances of cruelty and perfidy scarcely paralleled in the most barbarous ages, and totally unworthy the head of a civilized nation.
Page 459 - 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. SECTION 4. >The Times, Places and Manner of holding Elections for Senators and Representatives, shall be prescribed in each State by the Legislature thereof; but the Congress may at any time by Law make or alter such Regulations, except as to the places of chusing Senators.
Page 449 - Each state retains its sovereignty, freedom and independence, and every power, jurisdiction and right, which is not by this confederation expressly delegated to the United States, in congress assembled.
Page 439 - By levying money for and to the use of the Crown by pretence of prerogative, for other time and in other manner than the same was granted by Parliament.