Constitution of the United States of America, with the Amendments Thereto: to which are Added Jefferson's Manual of Parliamentary Practice, the Standing Rules, Joint Rules, and Orders for Conducting Business in the House of Representatives of the United States, and Barclay's DigestU.S. Government Printing Office, 1893 - Parliamentary practice |
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... respectively delegated would concur , and use their en- deavors to procure the concurrence of the other States , in the appointment of com- missioners to meet at Philadelphia on the second Monday of May following , to take into ...
... respectively delegated would concur , and use their en- deavors to procure the concurrence of the other States , in the appointment of com- missioners to meet at Philadelphia on the second Monday of May following , to take into ...
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... respective Numbers , which shall be determined by adding to the whole Number of free Persons , including those bound to Service for a Term of Years , and excluding Indians not taxed , three fifths of all other Persons . ] The actual ...
... respective Numbers , which shall be determined by adding to the whole Number of free Persons , including those bound to Service for a Term of Years , and excluding Indians not taxed , three fifths of all other Persons . ] The actual ...
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... respective Houses , and in going to and returning from the same ; and for any Speech or Debate in either House , they shall not be questioned in any other Place . Cox v . M'Clenachan , 3 Dall . , 478 . 2 No Senator or Representative ...
... respective Houses , and in going to and returning from the same ; and for any Speech or Debate in either House , they shall not be questioned in any other Place . Cox v . M'Clenachan , 3 Dall . , 478 . 2 No Senator or Representative ...
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... respectively . If any Bill shall not be returned by the President within ten Days ( Sundays excepted ) after it shall have been presented to him , the Same shall be a Law , in like Man- ner as if he had signed it , unless the Congress ...
... respectively . If any Bill shall not be returned by the President within ten Days ( Sundays excepted ) after it shall have been presented to him , the Same shall be a Law , in like Man- ner as if he had signed it , unless the Congress ...
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... the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries ; Grant et al . v . Raymond , 6 Pet . , 218 ; Wheaton et als . v . Peters et als . , 8 Pet . , 591 . 9 To constitute Tribunals inferior to the supreme Court ; 8 Constitution .
... the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries ; Grant et al . v . Raymond , 6 Pet . , 218 ; Wheaton et als . v . Peters et als . , 8 Pet . , 591 . 9 To constitute Tribunals inferior to the supreme Court ; 8 Constitution .
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Page 17 - The President shall, at stated Times, receive for his Services, a Compensation, which shall neither be encreased nor diminished during the Period for which he shall have been elected, and he shall not receive within that Period any other Emolument from the United States, or any of them. 7 Before he enter on the Execution of his Office, he shall take the following Oath or Affirmation...
Page 8 - 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 325 - Every person who having been summoned as a witness by the authority of either House of Congress to give testimony or to produce papers upon any matter under inquiry before either House...
Page 5 - Years, in such Manner as they shall by Law direct. The Number of Representatives shall not exceed one for every thirty Thousand, but each State shall have at Least one Representative; and until such enumeration shall be made, the State of New Hampshire shall be entitled to chuse three, Massachusetts eight, Rhode-Island and Providence Plantations one, Connecticut five, New-York six, New Jersey four, Pennsylvania eight, Delaware one, Maryland six, Virginia ten, North Carolina five, South Carolina five,...
Page 373 - States, directed to the president of the senate; the president of the senate shall, in presence of the senate and house of representatives, open all the certificates and the votes shall then be counted; the person having the greatest number of votes for president, shall be the president, if such number be a majority of the whole number of electors appointed; and if...
Page 265 - No appropriation shall be reported in any general appropriation bill, or be in order as an amendment thereto, for any expenditure not previously authorized by law, unless in continuation of appropriations for such public works and objects as are already in progress.
Page 247 - States in Congress assembled; that the senators and representatives should convene at the time and place assigned; that the senators should appoint a president of the Senate, for the sole purpose of receiving, opening, and counting the votes for President; and that after he shall be chosen, the Congress, together with the President, should without delay proceed to execute this Constitution.
Page 250 - No motion or proposition on a subject different from that under consideration shall be admitted under color of amendment.
Page 4 - May next, to take into consideration the situation of the United States, to devise such further provisions as shall appear to them necessary to render the constitution of the federal government adequate to the exigencies of the Union...
Page 294 - The first section of that act gives the Court of Claims original jurisdiction to hear and determine all claims founded upon the Constitution of the United States or any law of Congress, except for pensions, or upon any regulation of an executive department, or upon any contract, expressed or implied, with the Government of the United States...