A Junior Class History of the United States: To which are Added the Declaration of Independence, and the Constitution of the United States ...Maynard, Merrill & Company, 1899 - 382 pages |
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... Clause . The House of Representatives shall be composed of members chosen every second year by the people of the several states , PREAMBLE . - What is the introductory part of the Constitution called ? What is the object of the preamble ...
... Clause . The House of Representatives shall be composed of members chosen every second year by the people of the several states , PREAMBLE . - What is the introductory part of the Constitution called ? What is the object of the preamble ...
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... Clause . 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 ...
... Clause . 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 ...
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... Clause . The Senate of the United States shall be composed of two senators from each state , chosen by the legislature thereof , for six years ; and each senator shall have one vote . 2d Clause . Immediately after they shall be ...
... Clause . The Senate of the United States shall be composed of two senators from each state , chosen by the legislature thereof , for six years ; and each senator shall have one vote . 2d Clause . Immediately after they shall be ...
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... Clause . The Senate shall have the sole power to try all im- peachments . When sitting for that purpose , they shall be on oath or affirmation . When the president of the United States is tried , the chief - justice shall preside and no ...
... Clause . The Senate shall have the sole power to try all im- peachments . When sitting for that purpose , they shall be on oath or affirmation . When the president of the United States is tried , the chief - justice shall preside and no ...
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... Clause . Each house may determine the rules of its proceed- ings , punish its members for disorderly behavior , and , with the con- currence of two - thirds , expel a member . NO 3d Clause . Each house shall keep a journal of its ...
... Clause . Each house may determine the rules of its proceed- ings , punish its members for disorderly behavior , and , with the con- currence of two - thirds , expel a member . NO 3d Clause . Each house shall keep a journal of its ...
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Page 146 - I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country...
Page 4 - Stephen Hopkins William Ellery CONNECTICUT Roger Sherman Samuel Huntington William Williams Oliver Wolcott NEW YORK William Floyd Philip Livingston Francis Lewis Lewis Morris NEW JERSEY Richard Stockton John Witherspoon Francis Hopkinson John Hart Abraham Clark PENNSYLVANIA Robert Morris Benjamin Rush Benjamin...
Page 4 - 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...
Page 94 - Where the dark scorpion gathers death around, Where at each step the stranger fears to wake The rattling terrors of the vengeful snake, Where crouching tigers wait their hapless prey, And savage men more murderous still than they; While oft in whirls the mad tornado flies, Mingling the ravaged landscape with the skies.
Page 2 - 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 meantime, exposed to all the danger of invasion from without, and convulsions within.
Page 3 - He is, at this time, transporting large armies of foreign mercenaries to complete the works of death, desolation and tyranny, already begun with circumstances of cruelty and perfidy scarcely paralleled in the most barbarous ages, and totally unworthy the head of a civilized nation.
Page 23 - To receive him with suitable pomp and distinction, the sovereigns had ordered their throne to be placed in public, under a rich canopy of brocade of gold, in a vast and splendid saloon. Here the king and queen awaited his arrival, seated in state, with the prince Juan beside them, and attended by the dignitaries of their court, and the principal nobility of Castile...
Page 7 - Delaware, December 7, 1787. Pennsylvania, December 12, 1787. New Jersey, December 18, 1787. Georgia, January 2, 1788. Connecticut, January 9, 1788. Massachusetts, February 6, 1788. Maryland, April 28, 1788. South Carolina. May 23, 1788. New Hampshire, June 21, 1788.
Page 238 - Constitution of the United States of America was ratified, and also all acts and parts of acts of the General Assembly of this State ratifying amendments of the said Constitution, are hereby repealed; and that the union now subsisting between South Carolina and other States, under the name of the "United States of America,
Page 16 - No title of nobility shall be granted by the United States ; and no person holding any office of profit or trust under them, shall, without the consent of the Congress, accept of any present, emolument, office, or title, of any kind whatever, from any king, prince, or foreign state.