Congressional Serial Set, Tema 2814

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U.S. Government Printing Office, 1891

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Página 41 - No state shall, without the consent of congress, lay any duty on tonnage, keep troops or ships of war in time of peace, enter into any agreement or compact with another state or with a foreign power, or engage in war, unless actually invaded or in such imminent danger as will not admit of delay.
Página 41 - Whenever a statute gives a discretionary power to any person, to be exercised by him upon his own opinion of certain facts, it is a sound rule of construction, that the statute constitutes him the sole and exclusive judge of the existence of those facts.
Página 6 - If this were conceded, the importance to the General Government of having the actual election, the voting for those members, free from force and fraud is not diminished by the circumstance that the qualification of the voter is determined by the law of the State where he votes. It equally affects the government; it is as indispensable to the proper discharge of the great function of legislating for that government, that those who are to control this legislation shall not owe their election to bribery...
Página 32 - If it be proved that the defendants pursued by their acts the same object, often by the same means, one performing one part, and another another part of the same, so as to complete it, with a view to the attainment of that same object, the jury will be justified in the conclusion that they were engaged in a conspiracy to effect that object.
Página 4 - The nurse will certify that the account is correct and just; that the services were rendered as stated, and that the patient is not related to the nurse.
Página 4 - This view of the question seems to decide that the legislatures of the states ought not to have the uncontrolled right of regulating the times, places, and manner, of holding elections.
Página 4 - MORRIS observed, that the states might make false returns, and then make no provisions for new elections. Mr. SHERMAN did not know but it might be best to retain the clause, though he had himself sufficient confidence in the state legislatures. The motion of Mr. Pinckney and Mr. Rutledge did not prevail. The word " respectively " was inserted after the word

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