A Selection of Cases on Constitutional Law, Book 2 |
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... Congress on the first Monday in November , in every year , with a power reserved to each state , to recal its delegates , or any of them , at any time within the year , and to send others in their stead , for the remainder of the Year ...
... Congress on the first Monday in November , in every year , with a power reserved to each state , to recal its delegates , or any of them , at any time within the year , and to send others in their stead , for the remainder of the Year ...
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... Congress for March 1 , 1781 : - According to the order of the day the honble John Hanson and Daniel Carroll two of the delegates for the state of Maryland in pursuance of the act of the legislature of that state entitled ' An Act to ...
... Congress for March 1 , 1781 : - According to the order of the day the honble John Hanson and Daniel Carroll two of the delegates for the state of Maryland in pursuance of the act of the legislature of that state entitled ' An Act to ...
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... Congress , First Session , containing the Constitution and much illustrative matter . - Ed . In May , 1785 , a committee of Congress made a report in favor of altering the Articles of Confederation . In January , 1786 , the Legislature ...
... Congress , First Session , containing the Constitution and much illustrative matter . - Ed . In May , 1785 , a committee of Congress made a report in favor of altering the Articles of Confederation . In January , 1786 , the Legislature ...
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... Congress may by Law have directed . SECTION . 3. [ 1. ] Treason against the United States , shall consist only in levying War against them , or in adhering to their Enemies , giving them Aid and Comfort . No Person shall be convicted of ...
... Congress may by Law have directed . SECTION . 3. [ 1. ] Treason against the United States , shall consist only in levying War against them , or in adhering to their Enemies , giving them Aid and Comfort . No Person shall be convicted of ...
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... Congress all legislative powers ' granted in the constitution . ' " They have vested in one Supreme court , and in such inferior courts as the Congress shall establish , the judicial power of the United States . ' " It is worthy of ...
... Congress all legislative powers ' granted in the constitution . ' " They have vested in one Supreme court , and in such inferior courts as the Congress shall establish , the judicial power of the United States . ' " It is worthy of ...
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Page xix - Water; [12.] To raise and support Annies, but no Appropriation of Money to that Use shall be for a longer Term than two Years ; [13.] To provide and maintain a Navy; [14.] To make Rules for the Government and Regulation of the land and naval Forces...
Page xx - Person. 2 The Privilege of the Writ of Habeas Corpus shall not be suspended, unless when in Cases of Rebellion or Invasion the public Safety may require it. 3 No Bill of Attainder or ex post facto Law shall be passed. 4 No Capitation, or other direct, Tax shall be laid, unless in Proportion to the Census or Enumeration herein before directed to be taken.
Page 177 - The united states in congress assembled shall also be the last resort on appeal in all disputes and differences now subsisting or that hereafter may arise between two or more states concerning boundary, jurisdiction or any other cause whatever; which authority shall always be exercised in the manner following.
Page x - No state shall lay any imposts or duties, which may interfere with any stipulations in treaties, entered into by the united states in congress assembled, with any king, prince or state, in pursuance of any treaties already proposed by congress, to the courts of France and Spain. No vessels of war shall be kept up in time of peace by any state, except such number only, as shall be deemed necessary by the united states in congress assembled...
Page xv - ... and we do further solemnly plight and engage the faith of our respective constituents, that they shall abide by the determinations of the United States in congress assembled, on all questions, which by the said confederation are submitted to them; and that the articles thereof shall be inviolably observed by the states we respectively represent, and that the union shall be perpetual.
Page xxiii - The citizens of each State shall be entitled to all privileges and immunities of citizens in the several States. 2 A person charged in any State with treason, felony, or other crime, who shall flee from justice, and be found in another State, shall on demand of the executive authority of the State from which he fled, be delivered up to be removed to the State having jurisdiction of the crime.
Page 602 - By the law of the land is most clearly intended the general law; a law which hears before it condemns; which proceeds upon inquiry, and renders judgment only after trial. The meaning is, that every citizen shall hold his life, liberty, property and immunities, under the protection of the general rules which govern society. Everything which may pass under the form of an enactment, is not, therefore, to be considered the law of the land.
Page ix - ... whom these Presents shall come, we the undersigned Delegates of the States affixed to our Names send greeting. Whereas the Delegates of the United States of America...
Page xix - States: 3. To regulate commerce with foreign nations, and among the several states, and with the Indian tribes: 4. To establish an uniform rule of naturalization, and uniform laws on the subject of bankruptcies throughout the United States: 5. To coin money, regulate the value thereof, and of foreign coin, and fix the standard of weights and measures: 6. To provide for the punishment of counterfeiting the securities and current coin of the United States: 7.
Page 753 - When, therefore, one devotes his property to a use in which the public has an interest, he, in effect, grants to the public an interest in that use, and must submit to be controlled by the public for the common good, to the extent of the interest he has thus created. He may withdraw his grant by discontinuing the use; but, so long as he maintains the use, he must submit to the control.