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Página 241 - choice of the president, the person having tho greatest number of votes of the electors shall be the vice-president. But if there should remain two or more who have equal votes, the senate shall choose from them, by ballot, the vice-president. IV. The congress may
Página 248 - process for obtaining witnesses in his favour, and to hare the assistance of counsel for his defence. ARTICLE VII. In suits at common law, where the value in controversy shall exceed twenty dollars, the right of trial by jury shall be preserved, and no fact, tried by jury, shall be otherwise re-examined in any
Página 235 - to hold and enjoy any office of honour, trust, or profit under the United States: but the party convicted shall, nevertheless, bo liable and subject to indictment, trial, judgment, and punishment, according to law. SECTION IV. I. The times, places, and manner of holding
Página 240 - and transmit, sealed, to the seat of government of the United States, directed to the president of the senate. The president of the senate shall, iu the presence of the senate and house
Página 43 - of nature. It is more—it is itself an eternal law of nature; for whatever is a man's own is absolutely his own ; no man has a right to take it from him without his consent. Whoever attempts to do it attempts an injury; whoever does it commits a robbery.
Página 43 - has resisted. Three millions of people, so dead to all the feelings of liberty as to voluntarily submit to be slaves, would have been fit instruments to make slaves of all the
Página 218 - farewell to this august body, under whose orders I have so long acted, I here offer my commission and take my leave of all the employments of public life.
Página 243 - jury ; and such trials shall be held in the state where the said crime shall have been committed; but when not committed within any state, the trial shall be at such a place or places as the congress may,
Página 57 - all the relatives of Logan, not sparing women and children. There runs not a drop of my blood in the veins of any living ereature! This
Página 216 - no man possesses a more sincere wish to see ample justice done to the army than I do; and as far as my powers and influence, in a constitutional way, extend, they shall be employed to