A Familiar Exposition of the Constitution of the United States: Containing a Brief Commentary on Every Clause, Explaining the True Nature, Reasons, and Objects Thereof : Designed for the Use of School Libraries and General Readers : with an Appendix, Containing Important Public Documents, Illustrative of the ConstitutionThe Lawbook Exchange, Ltd., 1999 - 372 Seiten Story, Joseph. A Familiar Exposition of the Constitution of the United States: Containing a Brief Commentary on Every Clause, Explaining the True Nature, reasons, and Objects Thereof; Designed for the Use of School, Libraries and General Readers. With an Appendix, Containing Important Public Documents, Illustrative of the Constitution. New York: Harper Brothers: 1865. 372 pp. Reprinted 1999 by The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd. LCCN 98-50811. ISBN 1-886363-71-4. Hardcover. * Reprint of the 1865 edition. An important treatise on the Constitution of the United States by an early master of that document. Designed to follow the order of his well-known Commentaries on the Constitution, this work is written in language geared to the student or layman, nevertheless showing great breadth and profundity in his explications. |
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... VII . Exposition of the Constitution . - The Preamble , CHAPTER VIII . Distribution of Powers.- The Legislative Depart- ོ་ ཚེ་ ཚ ment , CHAPTER IX . The House of Representatives , 46 50 CHAPTER X. The Senate , 64 CHAPTER XI . Impeachments.
... VII . Exposition of the Constitution . - The Preamble , CHAPTER VIII . Distribution of Powers.- The Legislative Depart- ོ་ ཚེ་ ཚ ment , CHAPTER IX . The House of Representatives , 46 50 CHAPTER X. The Senate , 64 CHAPTER XI . Impeachments.
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... legislative and executive functions were exer- cised according to the particular organization of the Colony . In all of them , the legislative power extended to all local subjects , and was subject only to this restriction , that the ...
... legislative and executive functions were exer- cised according to the particular organization of the Colony . In all of them , the legislative power extended to all local subjects , and was subject only to this restriction , that the ...
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... legislative coun- cils ; and as the English colonists are not represented , and , from their local and other circumstances , cannot properly be represented , in the British Parliament , they are entitled to a free and exclusive power of ...
... legislative coun- cils ; and as the English colonists are not represented , and , from their local and other circumstances , cannot properly be represented , in the British Parliament , they are entitled to a free and exclusive power of ...
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... legislative power in several Colonies by a Council appointed during pleasure by die Crown , is unconstitutional , dangerous , and destructive to the freedom of American legislation . upon § 24. Such is , in substance , the Bill of ...
... legislative power in several Colonies by a Council appointed during pleasure by die Crown , is unconstitutional , dangerous , and destructive to the freedom of American legislation . upon § 24. Such is , in substance , the Bill of ...
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... legislative body , some by the popular representative branch thereof , and some by conventions of the people , according to the several means and local circumstances of each Colony . This first great Continental Congress assembled on ...
... legislative body , some by the popular representative branch thereof , and some by conventions of the people , according to the several means and local circumstances of each Colony . This first great Continental Congress assembled on ...
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CHAPTER XII | 89 |
CHAPTER XVII | 114 |
General Power to make Necessary and Proper | 131 |
CHAPTER XXXII | 228 |
Privileges of Citizens Fugitive Criminals | 242 |
CHAPTER XXXVI | 251 |
CHAPTER XXXVIII | 267 |
DECLARATION of Independence | 275 |
CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED STATES | 289 |
WASHINGTONS FAREWELL ADDRESS | 306 |
DEFINITIVE TREATY OF PEACE BETWEEN THE UNI | 324 |
Admission of New States Government of Territo | 137 |
CHAPTER XXVII | 146 |
CHAPTER XXX | 179 |
CHAPTER XXXI | 186 |
GLOSSARY | 339 |
INDEX | 351 |
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Seite 286 - United States, in Congress assembled, shall have authority to appoint a committee, to sit in the recess of Congress, to be denominated a "Committee of the States," and to consist of one delegate from each State; and to appoint such other committees and civil officers as may be necessary for managing the general affairs of the United States under their direction; to appoint one of their number to preside: provided, that no person be allowed to serve in the office of President more than one year in...
Seite 279 - The better to secure and perpetuate mutual friendship and intercourse among the people of the different States in this Union, the free inhabitants of each of these states, paupers, vagabonds and fugitives from justice excepted, shall be entitled to all privileges and immunities of free citizens in the several states...
Seite 282 - ... united states in congress assembled can be consulted nor shall any state grant commissions to any ships or vessels of war, nor letters of marque or reprisal, except it be after a declaration of war by the united states in congress assembled, and then only against the kingdom or state and the subjects thereof, against which war has been...
Seite 288 - Every State shall abide by the determinations of the United States in Congress assembled, on all questions which by this Confederation are submitted to them. And the articles of this Confederation shall be inviolably observed by every State, and the union shall be perpetual...
Seite 319 - ... appearances of a virtuous sense of obligation, a commendable deference for public opinion, or a laudable zeal for public good, the base or foolish compliances of ambition, corruption or infatuation. As avenues to foreign influence in innumerable ways, such attachments are particularly alarming to the truly enlightened and independent patriot.
Seite 318 - The Nation, which indulges towards another an habitual hatred, or an habitual fondness, is in some degree a slave. It is a slave to its animosity or to its affection, either of which is sufficient to lead it astray from its duty and its interest. Antipathy in one nation against another...
Seite 311 - These considerations speak a persuasive language to every reflecting and virtuous mind and exhibit the continuance of the Union as a primary object of patriotic desire. Is there a doubt whether a common government can embrace so large a sphere? Let experience solve it. To listen to mere speculation in such a case were criminal. We are authorized to hope that a proper organization of the whole, with the auxiliary agency of governments for the respective subdivisions will afford a happy issue to the...