Commentaries on the Constitution of the United States, Historical and Juridical: With Observations Upon the Ordinary Provisions of State Constitutions and a Comparison with the Constitutions of Other Countries, Том 1

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Boston Book Company, 1895 - Всего страниц: 713

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Models of the Federal Constitution
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Compromises of the Constitution
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Result of the Federal Convention Page 1
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CHAPTER II
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Sovereignty of the States before the Federal Constitution
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The Constitution was formed by the Thirteen States 14 Form of Ratifications of the Constitution
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Legality of an Indissoluble Union between Sovereign States
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The Constitution is not a Legal Compact
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Proceedings in Federal Convention as to the Determination of the Form of the New Government
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Significance of the Phrase We the people of the United States
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Significance of the Phrase to form a more perfect Union
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Significance of the Phrase to Establish Justice 94 96
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Significance of the Phrase to Insure domestic Tranquillity
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Significance of the Phrase to provide for the Common Defense 24 Significance of the Phrase to promote the general welfare
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Significance of the Phrase to secure the Blessings of Liberty 26 Significance of the Phrase Ordain and Establish
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Significance of the Word Constitution
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Testimony of Contemporary Statesmen on the Nature of the Consti
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Judicial Decisions as to the Nature of the Constitution 108
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Early Assertions of the Right of Secession
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The Doctrine of Nullification
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History of Nullification
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Constitutional Aspects of Slavery
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Constitutional History of the Southern Confederacy
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Reconstruction
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tution
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APPENDIX TO CHAPTER II
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Kentucky Resolutions of 1798
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Kentucky Resolutions of 1799
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CHAPTER III
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Equilibrium of the Three Departments in the United States
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Proceedings in Convention as to the Composition of Congress 312
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Стр. 206 - Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, Florida, Mississippi, Louisiana, and Texas, by combinations too powerful to be suppressed by the ordinary course of judicial proceedings, or by the powers vested in the marshals by law...
Стр. 372 - All charges of war, and all other expenses that shall be incurred for the common defence or general welfare, and allowed by the United States in Congress assembled, shall be defrayed out of a common treasury...
Стр. 92 - The said states hereby severally enter into a firm league of friendship with each other for their common defence, the security of their liberties, and their mutual and general welfare, binding themselves to assist each other against all force offered to, or attacks made upon them, or any of them, on account of religion, sovereignty, trade, or any other pretence whatever.
Стр. 86 - RESOLVED, that each branch ought to possess the right of originating acts; that the National Legislature ought to be empowered to enjoy the legislative rights vested in Congress by the Confederation, and moreover to legislate in all cases to which the separate states are incompetent, or in which the harmony of the United States may be interrupted by the exercise of individual legislation...
Стр. 97 - Not only, therefore, can there be no loss of separate and independent autonomy to the States, through their union under the Constitution, but it may be not unreasonably said that the preservation of the States, and the maintenance of their governments, are as much within the design and care of the Constitution as the preservation of the Union and the maintenance of the National government. The Constitution, in all its provisions, looks to an indestructible Union, composed of indestructible States.
Стр. 84 - That a national government ought to be established, consisting of a supreme legislative, executive, and judiciary.
Стр. 66 - His Britannic Majesty acknowledges the said United States, viz. New Hampshire, Massachusetts Bay, Rhode Island, and Providence Plantations, Connecticut, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Georgia, to be free, sovereign and independent States...
Стр. 372 - ... in proportion to the value of all land within each state, granted to or surveyed for any Person, as such land and the buildings and improvements thereon shall be estimated according to such mode as the united states in congress assembled, shall from time to time direct and appoint.
Стр. 339 - For the purpose of voting, no person shall be deemed to have gained or lost a residence by reason of his presence or absence while employed in the service of the United States ; nor while engaged in the navigation of the waters of this State or of the United States, or of the high seas ; nor while a student of any seminary of learning, nor while kept at any almshouse or other asylum at public expense ; nor while confined in any public prison.
Стр. 28 - Will you solemnly promise and swear to govern the people of this kingdom of England, and the dominions thereto belonging, according to the statutes in parliament agreed on, and the laws and customs of the same? — The king or queen shall say, I solemnly promise so to do.

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