Civics, what Every Citizen Should Know: Concise and Complete Information on a Mulitude of Questions Pertaining to Our Government, Its History and DevelopmentPenn publishing Company, 1903 - 210 páginas |
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... Supreme Court or the Court of Claims in all cases where the United States is interested . He may if he choose personally conduct suit of this kind in any part of the United States . He ex- amines the title to all lands purchased for ...
... Supreme Court or the Court of Claims in all cases where the United States is interested . He may if he choose personally conduct suit of this kind in any part of the United States . He ex- amines the title to all lands purchased for ...
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... Supreme Court ( 1864-1873 ) . Presided at the Court of Impeachment which tried President Johnson ; as Secretary of the Treasury 1861-1864 , he devised the system of National Banks and issued the Greenback legal tender notes . He had ...
... Supreme Court ( 1864-1873 ) . Presided at the Court of Impeachment which tried President Johnson ; as Secretary of the Treasury 1861-1864 , he devised the system of National Banks and issued the Greenback legal tender notes . He had ...
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... Court of Appellate jurisdiction below the Supreme Court . Circuit Court of the United States . - A Federal court originally held by one of the justices of Supreme Court with the District Judge in Cir- cuit , but now presided over by a ...
... Court of Appellate jurisdiction below the Supreme Court . Circuit Court of the United States . - A Federal court originally held by one of the justices of Supreme Court with the District Judge in Cir- cuit , but now presided over by a ...
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... Supreme Court ren- dered in October , 1883. The decision interpreted the Fourteenth Amendment as a prohibition against State legislation hostile to the negro race and did not refer to the relations between individuals . Civil Service ...
... Supreme Court ren- dered in October , 1883. The decision interpreted the Fourteenth Amendment as a prohibition against State legislation hostile to the negro race and did not refer to the relations between individuals . Civil Service ...
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... Supreme Court and Congress consisted of but one House . The greatest weakness of the Arti- cles of Confederation was that they gave Con- gress no power to levy taxes and relied upon the states to appropriate the amount necessary for the ...
... Supreme Court and Congress consisted of but one House . The greatest weakness of the Arti- cles of Confederation was that they gave Con- gress no power to levy taxes and relied upon the states to appropriate the amount necessary for the ...
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Página 184 - No person except a natural-born citizen or a citizen of the United States at the time of the adoption of this Constitution, shall be eligible to the office of President; neither shall any person be eligible to that office who shall not have attained to the age of thirtyfive years, and been fourteen years a resident within the United States.
Página 193 - Done in convention, by the unanimous consent of the States present, the seventeenth day of September, in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and eighty-seven, and of the independence of the United States of America the twelfth.
Página 180 - ... 8. 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.
Página 179 - ... 17. To exercise exclusive legislation, in all cases whatsoever, over such district (not exceeding ten miles square) as may, by cession of particular states, and the acceptance of congress, become the seat of government of the United States...
Página 191 - G-uarantee to the States. The United States shall guarantee to every State in this Union a republican form of government, and shall protect each of them against invasion ; and, on application of the Legislature, or of the executive (when the Legislature cannot be convened), against domestic violence.
Página 186 - Clause 3. The President shall have power to fill up all vacancies that may happen during the recess of the Senate, by granting commissions, which shall expire at the end of their next session.
Página 190 - Clause 1. New States may be admitted by the Congress into this Union; but no new State shall be formed or erected within the jurisdiction of any other State ; nor any State be formed by the junction of two or more States, or parts of States, without the consent of the Legislatures of the States concerned, as well as of the Congress. Clause 2. The Congress...
Página 192 - Congress; provided, that no amendment which may be made prior to the year one thousand eight hundred and eight shall in any manner affect the first and fourth clauses in the ninth section of the first Article; and that no state, without its consent, shall be deprived of its equal suffrage in the Senate.
Página 109 - The occasion has been judged proper for asserting, as a principle in which the rights and interests of the United States are involved, that the American continents, by the free and independent condition which they have assumed and maintained, are henceforth not to be considered as subjects for future colonization by any European powers...
Página 202 - The Congress shall have power to enforce, by appropriate legislation, the provisions of this article. ARTICLE XV Section 1. The right of the citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States, or by any State, on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude. Sec. 2. The Congress shall have power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation.