The Government of North DakotaAmerican book Company, 1910 - 320 pages |
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... received the Law from God on Mount Sinai , and hence the Jewish government at this time was a theocracy . ( c ) Patriarchy . - A patriarchal form of government is one in which the father or head of the family is the sovereign . Abraham ...
... received the Law from God on Mount Sinai , and hence the Jewish government at this time was a theocracy . ( c ) Patriarchy . - A patriarchal form of government is one in which the father or head of the family is the sovereign . Abraham ...
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... received according to his needs . The Pilgrims at Plymouth had a similar arrangement for two years and gave it up . For a long time much land in each town was held in common , and the Boston Common of to- day is a survival of this ...
... received according to his needs . The Pilgrims at Plymouth had a similar arrangement for two years and gave it up . For a long time much land in each town was held in common , and the Boston Common of to- day is a survival of this ...
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... received according to his needs . The Pilgrims at Plymouth had a similar arrangement for two years and gave it up . For a long time much land in each town was held in common , and the Boston Common of to- day is a survival of this ...
... received according to his needs . The Pilgrims at Plymouth had a similar arrangement for two years and gave it up . For a long time much land in each town was held in common , and the Boston Common of to- day is a survival of this ...
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... receiving the next highest number of votes was to be Vice President . The plan looked very good . It worked in the ... received the vote of 10 States ; Burr , 4. This election led to the adoption of the Twelfth Amendment , which in ...
... receiving the next highest number of votes was to be Vice President . The plan looked very good . It worked in the ... received the vote of 10 States ; Burr , 4. This election led to the adoption of the Twelfth Amendment , which in ...
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... . A man may be , and often has been , elected President by a minority of popular votes . Thus in 1876 Hayes , the successful candidate , received only 4,033,708 votes as against 4,285,992 64 THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT IN ACTION.
... . A man may be , and often has been , elected President by a minority of popular votes . Thus in 1876 Hayes , the successful candidate , received only 4,033,708 votes as against 4,285,992 64 THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT IN ACTION.
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Page xiii - 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 the said crimes shall have been committed; but when not committed within any State, the trial shall be at such place or places as the Congress may by law have directed.
Page xiv - New States may be admitted by the Congress into this Union ; but no new State shall be formed or erected within the jurisdiction of any other State ; nor any State be formed by the junction of two or more States, or parts of States, without the consent of the legislatures of the States concerned as well as of the Congress.
Page xxxvii - House shall be the judge of the election, returns, and qualifications of its own members, and a majority of each House shall constitute a quorum to do business, but a smaller number may adjourn from day to day and may compel the attendance of absent members in such manner and under such penalties as each House may provide.
Page iii - Journal of their proceedings monthly, except such parts thereof relating to treaties, alliances or military operations, as in their judgment require secrecy; and the yeas and nays of the delegates of each state on any question shall be entered on the Journal, when it is desired by any delegate; and the delegates of a state, or any of them, at his or their request shall be furnished with a transcript of the said Journal, except such parts as are above excepted, to lay before the legislatures of the...
Page 44 - In all our deliberations on this subject, we kept steadily in our view that which appears to us the greatest interest of every true American — the consolidation of our Union — in which is involved our prosperity, felicity, safety, perhaps our national existence.
Page xviii - The person having the greatest number of votes as Vice President, shall be the Vice President, if such number be a majority of the whole number of electors appointed ; and if no person have a majority, then from the two highest numbers on the list, the Senate shall choose the Vice President ; a quorum for the purpose shall consist of two thirds of the whole number of senators, and a majority of the whole number shall be necessary to a choice. But no person constitutionally ineligible to the office...
Page 319 - Freedom of speech and debate in Congress shall not be impeached or questioned in any court, or place out of Congress...
Page 110 - We admit, as all must admit, that the powers of the government are limited, and that its limits are not to be transcended. But we think the sound construction of the Constitution must allow to the national legislature that discretion, with respect to the means by which the powers it confers are to be carried into execution, which will enable that body to perform the high duties assigned to it, in I the manner most beneficial to the people.
Page 132 - If two laws conflict with each other, the courts must decide on the operation of each. So if a law be in opposition to the constitution ; if both the law and the constitution apply to a particular case, so that the court must either decide that case conformably to the law, disregarding the constitution; or conformably to the constitution, disregarding the law; the court must determine which of these conflicting rules governs the case. This is of the very essence of judicial duty.
Page vii - 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.