The Constitutional Convention: Its History, Powers, and Modes of ProceedingCallaghan and Company, 1873 - 561페이지 |
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... relation to the sovereign , or to sovereign rights . Are Conventions possessed of sovereign powers ? §§ 315–318 . Sense in which Conventions wield sovereign powers . § 319 . ( b ) . Powers of Conventions growing out of their relations ...
... relation to the sovereign , or to sovereign rights . Are Conventions possessed of sovereign powers ? §§ 315–318 . Sense in which Conventions wield sovereign powers . § 319 . ( b ) . Powers of Conventions growing out of their relations ...
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... relation to its nature and powers ? When called into existence , is it the servant , or the master , of the people , by whom it was spoken into being ? Whatever be its relations to the general source of political power , whether those ...
... relation to its nature and powers ? When called into existence , is it the servant , or the master , of the people , by whom it was spoken into being ? Whatever be its relations to the general source of political power , whether those ...
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... relation to the people , considered as the creator of the government and Constitution , the legislature is nevertheless prima inter pares , when compared with other departments of the government ; or , as it has been expressed by ...
... relation to the people , considered as the creator of the government and Constitution , the legislature is nevertheless prima inter pares , when compared with other departments of the government ; or , as it has been expressed by ...
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... relation to the state , considered as a political organization . It is charged with a definite , and not a discretionary and indeterminate , func- tion . It always acts under a commission , for a purpose ascer- tained and limited by law ...
... relation to the state , considered as a political organization . It is charged with a definite , and not a discretionary and indeterminate , func- tion . It always acts under a commission , for a purpose ascer- tained and limited by law ...
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... relations , as well to the people as to the government in its various departments , connecting with the theoretical ... relation to the institu- tion we are considering , since the first , being the source and foundation of all just ...
... relations , as well to the people as to the government in its various departments , connecting with the theoretical ... relation to the institu- tion we are considering , since the first , being the source and foundation of all just ...
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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.