The Citizens' Manual of Government and Law: Comprising the Elementary Principles of Civil Government; a Practical View of the State Governments, and of the Government of the United States; a Digest of Common and Statutory Law, and of the Law of Nations; and a Summary of Parliamentary Rules for the Practice of Deliberative AssembliesH. Dayton, 1858 - Počet stran: 448 |
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Strana vii
... appears to be a desideratum ; to supply which , is the primary design of this volume . Surely , every young man inspired with a just degree of patriotic pride , must desire to qualify himself for the in telligent discharge of his duties ...
... appears to be a desideratum ; to supply which , is the primary design of this volume . Surely , every young man inspired with a just degree of patriotic pride , must desire to qualify himself for the in telligent discharge of his duties ...
Strana ix
... appear in any of the author's former works . For the better illus- tration of the principles of civil government , and to show , by contrast , the superiority of our own government , an outline is given of the forms of government of the ...
... appear in any of the author's former works . For the better illus- tration of the principles of civil government , and to show , by contrast , the superiority of our own government , an outline is given of the forms of government of the ...
Strana 26
... appear , that very few of these governments are either wholly monarchical , aristocratical , or democratic ; but that , in most of them , some or all of these several principles are combined . § 2. Of the class of monarchies called ...
... appear , that very few of these governments are either wholly monarchical , aristocratical , or democratic ; but that , in most of them , some or all of these several principles are combined . § 2. Of the class of monarchies called ...
Strana 33
... appears , that few monarchs possess more ample and more numerous powers than the emperor of France . § 8. The system of provincial government throughout France is simple and effective . The kingdom is at present divided into 86 ...
... appears , that few monarchs possess more ample and more numerous powers than the emperor of France . § 8. The system of provincial government throughout France is simple and effective . The kingdom is at present divided into 86 ...
Strana 49
... appears that only one branch of the law- making power was chosen by the people , while the other two , the governor and council , were appointed by the king , or were subject to him . And as every measure proposed by the representatives ...
... appears that only one branch of the law- making power was chosen by the people , while the other two , the governor and council , were appointed by the king , or were subject to him . And as every measure proposed by the representatives ...
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Strana 369 - Houses repeatedly, for opposing with manly firmness his invasions on the rights of the people. He has refused for a long time, after such dissolutions to cause others to be elected ; whereby the Legislative Powers, incapable of Annihilation, have returned to the People at large for their exercise ; the State remaining in the mean time exposed to all the dangers of invasion from without, and convulsions within.
Strana 370 - Determined to keep open a market where men should be bought and sold, he has prostituted his negative for suppressing every legislative attempt to prohibit or to restrain this execrable commerce.
Strana 373 - ... do all other acts and things which independent states may of right do. And, for the support of this declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of Divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our lives, our fortunes, and our sacred honor. The foregoing Declaration was, by order of Congress, engrossed, and signed by the following members...
Strana 379 - To coin money, regulate the value thereof, and of foreign coin, and fix the standard of weights and measures; To provide for the punishment of counterfeiting the securities and current coin of the United States; To establish post offices and post roads...
Strana 431 - Of all the dispositions and habits which lead to political prosperity, religion and morality are indispensable supports. In vain would that man claim the tribute of patriotism, who should labor to subvert these great pillars of human happiness, these firmest props of the duties of men and citizens.
Strana 420 - Measures, is hereby declared inoperative and void : it being the true intent and meaning of this act, not to legislate slavery into any territory or state, nor to exclude it therefrom, but to leave the people thereof perfectly free to form and regulate their domestic institutions in their own way, subject only to the constitution of the United States...
Strana 374 - M'Kean. Maryland. — Samuel Chase, William Paca, Thomas Stone, Charles Carroll, of Carrollton. Virginia. — George Wythe, Richard Henry Lee, Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Harrison, Thomas Nelson, Jr., Francis Lightfoot Lee, Carter Braxton. North Carolina. — William Hooper, Joseph 'Hewes, John Penn. South Carolina. — Edward Rutledge, Thomas Heyward, Jr., Thomas Lynch, Jr., Arthur Middleton. Georgia. — Button Gwinnett, Lyman Hall, George Walton.
Strana 116 - Resolved that in the opinion of Congress it is expedient that on the second Monday in May next a Convention of delegates who shall have been appointed by the several States be held at Philadelphia for the sole and express purpose of revising the Articles of Confederation and reporting to Congress and the several legislatures such alterations and provisions therein as shall when agreed to in Congress and confirmed by the States...
Strana 369 - He has [suffered] * the administration of justice [totally to cease in some of these States] 2 refusing his assent to laws for establishing judiciary powers. He has made [our] judges dependent on his will alone for the tenure of their offices, and the amount and payment of their salaries. He has erected a multitude of new offices, [by a self-assumed power\ and sent hither swarms of new officers to harass our people and eat out their substance.
Strana 431 - Whatever may be conceded to the influence of refined education on minds of peculiar structure, reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principle.