The Constitutional Convention: Its History, Powers, and Modes of ProceedingCallaghan and Company, 1873 - 561페이지 |
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... Action of Congress on these recommendations . Call of the sec- ond Federal Convention . § 165 . Character of this Convention . § 166 . State Conventions called to ratify the Federal Constitution . History and character of . § 167 ...
... Action of Congress on these recommendations . Call of the sec- ond Federal Convention . § 165 . Character of this Convention . § 166 . State Conventions called to ratify the Federal Constitution . History and character of . § 167 ...
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... action , its act is a law . §§ 547 , 548 . 2. So far as it simply affirms the necessity or expediency of amend- ments , it is a recommendation merely , and not a law . §§ 549 , 550 . Opinion of Mr. Webster and others in the ...
... action , its act is a law . §§ 547 , 548 . 2. So far as it simply affirms the necessity or expediency of amend- ments , it is a recommendation merely , and not a law . §§ 549 , 550 . Opinion of Mr. Webster and others in the ...
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... action ? § 563 . V. When a Constitution contains a provision for its own amendment , in either of the modes above specified , can another and different mode be adopted , or must the mode prescribed be alone pursued ? §§ 564- 574 . There ...
... action ? § 563 . V. When a Constitution contains a provision for its own amendment , in either of the modes above specified , can another and different mode be adopted , or must the mode prescribed be alone pursued ? §§ 564- 574 . There ...
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... action , because sound and wise , and not a mere echo of party cries and platforms . Spontaneous assem- blages , for such purposes , of the masses of a people , betoken a very high state of civilization , or instincts that are sure to ...
... action , because sound and wise , and not a mere echo of party cries and platforms . Spontaneous assem- blages , for such purposes , of the masses of a people , betoken a very high state of civilization , or instincts that are sure to ...
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... action , as well as whose purposes , were alien and hostile to established laws and Constitutions . And this is the real occa- sion of most of the misconceptions prevalent as to its 14 MISCONCEPTIONS REGARDING CONVENTIONS .
... action , as well as whose purposes , were alien and hostile to established laws and Constitutions . And this is the real occa- sion of most of the misconceptions prevalent as to its 14 MISCONCEPTIONS REGARDING CONVENTIONS .
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240 페이지 - The basis of our political systems is the right of the people to make and to alter their constitutions of government. But the constitution which at any time exists till changed by an explicit and authentic act of the whole people is sacredly obligatory upon all.
223 페이지 - States provides that the United States shall guarantee to every State in the Union a republican form of government, and shall protect each of them against invasion ; and on the application of the legislature or of the executive (when the legislature cannot be convened) against domestic violence.
150 페이지 - Congress it is expedient that on the second Monday in May next a convention of delegates, who shall have been appointed by the several States, be held at Philadelphia for the sole and express purpose of revising the articles of Confederation and reporting to Congress and the several legislatures such alterations and provisions therein as shall, when agreed to in Congress and confirmed by the States, render the federal Constitution adequate to the exigencies of government and the preservation of the...
49 페이지 - No people can be bound to acknowledge and adore the Invisible Hand which conducts the affairs of men more than the people of the United States. Every step by which they have advanced to the character of an independent nation seems to have been distinguished by some token of Providential agency.
149 페이지 - May following, to take into consideration the situation of the United States ; to devise such further provisions as should appear to them necessary to render the Constitution of the Federal Government adequate to the exigencies of the Union ; and to report such an act for that purpose to the United States in Congress assembled as, when agreed to by them and afterwards confirmed by the Legislatures of every State, would effectually provide for the same.
238 페이지 - Wherefore, whenever the ends of Government are perverted, and public liberty manifestly endangered, and all other means of redress are ineffectual, the People may, and of right ought, to reform the old, or establish a new Government : the doctrine of non-resistance against arbitrary power and oppression is absurd, slavish and destructive of the good and happiness of mankind.
169 페이지 - Under this article of the Constitution it rests with Congress to decide what government is the established one in a State. For as the United States guarantee to each State a republican government, Congress must necessarily decide what government is established in the State before it can determine whether it is republican or not.
410 페이지 - No amendment shall be made to the Constitution which will authorize, or give to Congress the power to abolish or interfere, within any State, with the domestic institutions thereof, including that of persons held to labor or service by the laws of said State.
5 페이지 - THIS is true liberty, when freeborn men, Having to advise the public, may speak free ; Which he who can, and will, deserves high praise ; Who neither can, nor will, may hold his peace ; What can be juster in a state than this ? FROM HORACE.
86 페이지 - Under the Articles of Confederation each State retained its sovereignty, freedom and independence, and every power, jurisdiction and right not expressly delegated to the United States.