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... conviction of , treason , bribery , or other high crimes and misdemeanors . ARTICLE 3 . SECTION 1 . 1. The judicial power of the United States shall be vested in one supreme court , and in such inferior courts as the Con- gress may ...
... conviction of , treason , bribery , or other high crimes and misdemeanors . ARTICLE 3 . SECTION 1 . 1. The judicial power of the United States shall be vested in one supreme court , and in such inferior courts as the Con- gress may ...
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... conviction that the step is compatible with both . The acceptance of , and continuance hitherto in the office to which your suffrages have twice called me , have been an uniform sacrifice of inclination to the opinion of duty , and to a ...
... conviction that the step is compatible with both . The acceptance of , and continuance hitherto in the office to which your suffrages have twice called me , have been an uniform sacrifice of inclination to the opinion of duty , and to a ...
Page 48
... from different causes , and from different quarters , much pains will be taken , many artifices employed , to weaken in your minds the conviction of this truth ; as this is the point in 48 PRESIDENT WASHINGTON'S address .
... from different causes , and from different quarters , much pains will be taken , many artifices employed , to weaken in your minds the conviction of this truth ; as this is the point in 48 PRESIDENT WASHINGTON'S address .
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... conviction thereof , such person shall , together with the person who received such fraudulent deed , be declared by said court to be utterly incapable , forever thereafter , of sustaining any office , and of voting for any officer , in ...
... conviction thereof , such person shall , together with the person who received such fraudulent deed , be declared by said court to be utterly incapable , forever thereafter , of sustaining any office , and of voting for any officer , in ...
Page 95
... conviction thereof , upon a bill of indictment , be rendered incapable for ever thereafter of sustaining any office in this State : and that all the aforementioned for- feitures in this act may be recovered by an action in any court of ...
... conviction thereof , upon a bill of indictment , be rendered incapable for ever thereafter of sustaining any office in this State : and that all the aforementioned for- feitures in this act may be recovered by an action in any court of ...
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Page 51 - With such powerful and obvious motives to union, affecting all parts of our country, while experience shall not have demonstrated its impracticability, there will always be reason to distrust the patriotism of those who in any quarter may endeavor to weaken its bands.
Page 24 - When land forces are raised by any state for the common defence, all officers of or under the rank of colonel shall be appointed by the legislature of each state respectively, by whom such forces shall be raised, or in such manner as such state shall direct ; and all vacancies shall be filled up by the state which first made the appointment.
Page 37 - Term, be elected as follows: 2. Each State shall appoint, in such manner as the Legislature thereof may direct, a Number of Electors, equal to the whole Number of Senators and Representatives to which the State may be entitled in the Congress: but no Senator or Representative, or Person holding an Office of Trust or Profit under the United States, shall be appointed an Elector. 3. 'The Electors shall meet in their respective States, and vote by Ballot for two Persons, of whom one at least shall not...
Page 33 - Each House shall keep a Journal of its Proceedings, and from time to time publish the same, excepting such Parts as may in their Judgment require Secrecy ; and the Yeas and Nays of the Members of either House on any question shall, at the Desire of one fifth of those Present, be entered on the Journal.
Page 52 - This Government, the offspring of our own choice, uninfluenced and unawed, adopted upon full investigation and mature deliberation, completely free in its principles, in the distribution of its powers, uniting security with energy, and containing within itself a provision for its own amendment, has a just claim to your confidence and your support.
Page 27 - ... appointing all officers of the land forces in the service of the United States., excepting regimental officers — appointing all the officers of the naval forces, and commissioning all officers whatever in the service of the United States — making rules for the government and regulation of the said land and naval forces, and directing their operations. The United States in Congress assembled shall have authority to appoint a committee to sit in the recess of Congress, to be denominated
Page 53 - ... of a country; that facility in changes upon the credit of mere hypothesis and opinion exposes to perpetual change, from the endless variety of hypothesis and opinion; and remember especially that for the efficient management of your common interests in a country so extensive as ours a government of as much vigor as is consistent with the perfect security of liberty is indispensable.
Page 28 - Congress* assembled. The United States in Congress assembled shall never engage in a war, nor grant letters of marque and reprisal in time of peace...
Page 36 - ... 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 hereinbefore directed to be taken.
Page 23 - Full faith and credit shall be given in each of these States to the records, acts, and judicial proceedings, of the courts and magistrates of every other State.