History of the Origin, Formation, and Adoption of the Constitution of the United States: With Notices of Its Principal Framers, 2. köideHarper and Brothers, 1858 |
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... President of the Senate Enactment of Laws President's Negative Seat of Government Session of Congress . 194 195-198 . 197 198-202 . 199 203-210 . 211 212-214 . 215-222 223 , 224 224-226 226-228 . 229 229-240 . 240-242 242 et seq ...
... President of the Senate Enactment of Laws President's Negative Seat of Government Session of Congress . 194 195-198 . 197 198-202 . 199 203-210 . 211 212-214 . 215-222 223 , 224 224-226 226-228 . 229 229-240 . 240-242 242 et seq ...
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... PRESIDENT . Election of the President , why not made directly by the People Origin of the Plan of Electors Choice of President and Vice - President Succession of the Vice - President to the Presidency 388 389 .390-395 395-398 Mode of ...
... PRESIDENT . Election of the President , why not made directly by the People Origin of the Plan of Electors Choice of President and Vice - President Succession of the Vice - President to the Presidency 388 389 .390-395 395-398 Mode of ...
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... President 404-407 Question of a Cabinet , or a Council Powers of the President Executive Power Pardoning Power Treaty - making Power Appointing Power To give Information on the State of the Union Power to convene Congress . CHAPTER XIV ...
... President 404-407 Question of a Cabinet , or a Council Powers of the President Executive Power Pardoning Power Treaty - making Power Appointing Power To give Information on the State of the Union Power to convene Congress . CHAPTER XIV ...
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... President should write to the executive of New Hampshire , to request the attendance of the deputies who had been chosen to represent that State , and who had not yet taken seats . Two States only voted for this motion , and the ...
... President should write to the executive of New Hampshire , to request the attendance of the deputies who had been chosen to represent that State , and who had not yet taken seats . Two States only voted for this motion , and the ...
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... facilitate some final ar- rangement of a contrary tendency . The avowed friends of an execu- tive ' during good behavior ' were in consequence of the impossibility of agreeing upon a proper CH . VIII ] 173 ELECTION OF PRESIDENT .
... facilitate some final ar- rangement of a contrary tendency . The avowed friends of an execu- tive ' during good behavior ' were in consequence of the impossibility of agreeing upon a proper CH . VIII ] 173 ELECTION OF PRESIDENT .
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Page 602 - Time for which he was elected, be appointed to any civil Office under the Authority of the United States, which shall have been created, or the Emoluments whereof shall have been encreased during such time ; and no Person holding any Office under the United States, shall be a Member of either House during his Continuance in Office.
Page 447 - There shall be neither slavery nor involuntary servitude in the said territory, otherwise than in the punishment of crimes, whereof the party shall have been duly convicted : Provided always, That any person escaping into the same, from whom labor or service is lawfully claimed in any one of the original States, such fugitive may be lawfully reclaimed, and conveyed to the person claiming his or her labor or service as aforesaid.
Page 34 - That a national government ought to be established, consisting of a supreme Legislative, Executive and Judiciary.
Page 439 - The better to secure and perpetuate mutual friendship and intercourse among the people of the different States in this Union, the free inhabitants of each of these States, paupers, vagabonds and fugitives from justice excepted, shall be entitled to all privileges and immunities of free citizens in the several States...
Page 603 - To provide for the punishment of counterfeiting the securities and current coin of the United States...
Page 86 - Resolved that the amendments which shall be offered to the Confederation, by the Convention ought at a proper time, or times, after the approbation of Congress to be submitted to an assembly or assemblies of Representatives, recommended by the several Legislatures to be expressly chosen by the people, to consider and decide thereon...
Page 602 - ... of Adjournment) shall be presented to the President of the United States; and before the Same shall take Effect, shall be approved by him, or being disapproved by him,, shall be repassed by two thirds of the Senate and House of Representatives, according to the Rules and Limitations prescribed in the Case of a Bill. SECTION.
Page 88 - Resolved that the National Legislature ought to consist of two branches. 4. Resolved that the members of the first branch of the National Legislature ought to be elected by the people of the several States...
Page 173 - Resolved that a National Executive be instituted to consist of a Single Person to be chosen by the National Legislature...
Page 189 - Resolved that a Census be taken within six years from the first Meeting of the Legislature of the United States, and once within the term of every Ten years afterwards of all the inhabitants of the United States in the manner and according to the ratio recommended by Congress in their resolution of April 18. 1783 — and that the Legislature of the United States shall proportion the direct Taxation accordingly.