American Government and PoliticsMacmillan Company, 1914 - Počet stran: 788 |
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Strana 9
... electors were not owners of property , but voted as freemen of the city . Taking some scat- tered figures for mid - century elections in Virginia , he places the voting population at from seven to ten per cent of the white inhabitants ...
... electors were not owners of property , but voted as freemen of the city . Taking some scat- tered figures for mid - century elections in Virginia , he places the voting population at from seven to ten per cent of the white inhabitants ...
Strana 10
... electors ; and New York City and Virginia showing the far larger proportion of eight per cent of the population as actual voters . At best the colonial elections called forth both relatively and absolutely only a small fraction of the ...
... electors ; and New York City and Virginia showing the far larger proportion of eight per cent of the population as actual voters . At best the colonial elections called forth both relatively and absolutely only a small fraction of the ...
Strana 15
... electors , who chose the town officers , levied taxes , appropriated money , passed by - laws , and reviewed the activities of the various local officers.3 Counties existed , of course , in New England , but only in a rudi- mentary form ...
... electors , who chose the town officers , levied taxes , appropriated money , passed by - laws , and reviewed the activities of the various local officers.3 Counties existed , of course , in New England , but only in a rudi- mentary form ...
Strana 54
... electors appointed as the legislatures of the several states might determine . 2. No less grave defects were inherent in the legislature created by the Articles of Confederation . Three , in particular , engaged the attention of the ...
... electors appointed as the legislatures of the several states might determine . 2. No less grave defects were inherent in the legislature created by the Articles of Confederation . Three , in particular , engaged the attention of the ...
Strana 66
... electors for President . The original system , which was prepared without taking into account the rise of parties and their effect on the framework of the government , provided that the presidential electors chosen in each state should ...
... electors for President . The original system , which was prepared without taking into account the rise of parties and their effect on the framework of the government , provided that the presidential electors chosen in each state should ...
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Strana 753 - ... Qualifications requisite for Electors of the most numerous Branch of the State Legislature. [2] No Person shall be a Representative who shall not have attained to the Age of twenty-five Years, and been seven Years a Citizen of the United States, and who shall not, when elected, be an Inhabitant of that State in which he shall be chosen. [3] Representatives and direct Taxes...
Strana 760 - Party, the Supreme Court shall have original Jurisdiction. In all the other Cases before mentioned, the supreme Court shall have appellate Jurisdiction, both as to Law and Fact, with such Exceptions, and under such Regulations as the Congress shall make. (3) The Trial of all Crimes, except in Cases of Impeachment, shall be by Jury; and such Trial shall be held in the State where...
Strana 722 - A landed interest, a manufacturing interest, a mercantile interest, a moneyed interest, with many lesser interests, grow up of necessity in civilized nations, and divide them into different classes actuated by different sentiments and views.
Strana 760 - The Congress shall have power to dispose of and make all needful rules and regulations respecting the territory or other property belonging to the United States ; and nothing in this Constitution shall be so construed as to prejudice any claims of the United States, or of any particular State. SECTION 4. The United States shall guarantee to every State in this Union a republican form of government, and shall protect each of them against invasion, and on application of the Legislature, or of the Executive...
Strana 339 - International law is part of our law, and must be ascertained and administered by the courts of justice of appropriate jurisdiction, as often as questions of right depending upon it are duly presented for their determination.
Strana 760 - 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 treason unless on the testimony of two witnesses to the same overt act, or on confession in open court.
Strana 313 - ... the candid citizen must confess that if the policy of the Government, upon vital questions affecting the whole people, is to be irrevocably fixed by decisions of the Supreme Court, the instant they are made in ordinary litigation between parties in personal actions, the people will have ceased to be their own rulers, having to that extent practically resigned their government into the hands of that eminent tribunal.
Strana 765 - ... vacancies happen in the representation of any State in the Senate, the executive authority of such State shall issue writs of election to fill such vacancies: Provided, That the legislature of any State may empower the executive thereof to make temporary appointments until the people fill the vacancies by election as the legislature may direct. This amendment shall not be so construed as to affect the election or term of any Senator chosen before it becomes valid as part of the Constitution.
Strana 49 - The diversity in the faculties of men, from which the rights of property originate, is not less an insuperable obstacle to a uniformity, of interests. The protection of these faculties is the first object of government.
Strana 759 - United States, whose appointments are not herein otherwise provided for, and which shall be established by law ; but the Congress may by law vest the appointment of such inferior officers, as they think proper, in the President alone, in the courts of law, or in the heads of Departments.