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... Person holding an Office of Trust or Profit under the United States , shall be appointed an Elector . " The Electors shall meet in their respective States , and vote by Ballot for two Persons of whom one at least shall not be an ...
... Person holding an Office of Trust or Profit under the United States , shall be appointed an Elector . " The Electors shall meet in their respective States , and vote by Ballot for two Persons of whom one at least shall not be an ...
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... person voted for as Vice - Presi- dent , and they shall make distinct lists of all persons voted for as President ... person having the greatest number of votes for President , shall be the President , if such number be a majority of the ...
... person voted for as Vice - Presi- dent , and they shall make distinct lists of all persons voted for as President ... person having the greatest number of votes for President , shall be the President , if such number be a majority of the ...
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... person shall be held to answer for a . [ Amendments ] . Capitation or other direct tax shall be laid unless in pro- portion to the census or enumeration . No .. Captures on land and water . Congress shall make rules concerning ...
... person shall be held to answer for a . [ Amendments ] . Capitation or other direct tax shall be laid unless in pro- portion to the census or enumeration . No .. Captures on land and water . Congress shall make rules concerning ...
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... person shall be compelled , in any criminal case , to be a witness against himself , nor be de- prived of life , liberty , or property without . [ Amendments ] . No State shall deprive any person of life , liberty , or property without ...
... person shall be compelled , in any criminal case , to be a witness against himself , nor be de- prived of life , liberty , or property without . [ Amendments ] . No State shall deprive any person of life , liberty , or property without ...
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... person holding any office under the United States shall , while holding such office , be a member of the ... No person , while a member of either House , shall be appointed to an office which shall have been created or the emoluments ...
... person holding any office under the United States shall , while holding such office , be a member of the ... No person , while a member of either House , shall be appointed to an office which shall have been created or the emoluments ...
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Page xxxix - Lawrence, and the carrying places between the same, shall be common highways, and forever free, as well to the Inhabitants of the said territory as to the citizens of the United States, and those of any other States that may be admitted into the Confederacy, without any tax. impost, or duty therefor.
Page xxxiii - ... ..of establishing rules for deciding in all cases, what captures on land or water shall be legal, and in what manner prizes taken by land or naval forces in the service of the United States shall be divided or appropriated..
Page xlv - Congress may by law provide, transmit within four days to the President pro tempore of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives their written declaration that the President is unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office. Thereupon Congress shall decide the issue, assembling within forty-eight hours for that purpose if not in session. If the Congress, within twenty-one days after receipt of the latter written declaration, or, if Congress is not in session, within twenty-one...
Page xxxi - The said states hereby severally enter into a firm league of friendship with each other, for their common defence, the security of their Liberties, and their mutual and general welfare, binding themselves to assist each other, against all force offered to, or attacks made upon them, or any of them, on account of religion, sovereignty, trade, or any other presence whatever.
Page xlv - President shall not have been chosen before the time fixed for the beginning of his term, or if the President elect shall have failed to qualify, then the Vice President elect shall act as President until a President shall have qualified; and the Congress may by law provide for the case wherein neither a President elect nor a Vice President elect shall have qualified, declaring who shall then act as President, or the manner in which one who is to act shall be selected, and such person shall act accordingly...
Page xxxviii - And, in the just preservation of rights and property, it is understood and declared, that no law ought ever to be made, or have force in the said territory, that shall, in any manner whatever, interfere with, or affect private contracts or engagements, bona fide, and without fraud previously formed.
Page xxxiv - Journal of their proceedings monthly, except such parts thereof relating to treaties, alliances or military operations as in their judgment require secresy; and the yeas and nays of the delegates of each state on any question shall be entered on the Journal, when it is desired by any delegate; and the delegates of a state, or any of them...
Page xlv - Thereafter, when the President transmits to the President pro tempore of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives his written declaration that no inability exists, he shall resume the powers and duties of his office unless the Vice President and a majority of either the principal officers of the executive department or of such other body as Congress may by law provide...
Page xlv - January, and the terms of Senators and Representatives at noon on the 3d day of January, of the years in which such terms would have ended if this article had not been ratified; and the terms of their successors shall then begin.
Page xxxii - United States in Congress assembled, and then only against the kingdom or State and the subjects thereof, against which war has been so declared, and under such regulations as shall be established by the United States in Congress assembled, unless such state be infested by pirates, in which case vessels of war may be fitted out for that occasion, and kept so long as the danger shall continue, or until the United States in Congress assembled shall determine otherwise.