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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... President of the United States , 1796-1800 . Vice - President during Washington's administrations . See " Life of John Adams , " by John Quincy Adams and Charles Francis Adams , two vols .; " John Adams , " by John T. Morse , Jr ...
... President of the United States , 1796-1800 . Vice - President during Washington's administrations . See " Life of John Adams , " by John Quincy Adams and Charles Francis Adams , two vols .; " John Adams , " by John T. Morse , Jr ...
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... President of the United States . Vice - President and succeeded to the Presidency on the death of James A. Garfield , September 19th , 1881 . Webster - Ashburton Articles of Confederation . - See Confederation . Ashburton Treaty , or ...
... President of the United States . Vice - President and succeeded to the Presidency on the death of James A. Garfield , September 19th , 1881 . Webster - Ashburton Articles of Confederation . - See Confederation . Ashburton Treaty , or ...
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... President of the United States . A few months after being admitted to the ... President Pierce sent him as Minister to Great Britain . In 1854 , he ... Vice - Presi- dent of the United States . He had received the same number of ...
... President of the United States . A few months after being admitted to the ... President Pierce sent him as Minister to Great Britain . In 1854 , he ... Vice - Presi- dent of the United States . He had received the same number of ...
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... Vice - President . He was a son of President Aaron Burr of Princeton College and a grandson of Jonathan Edwards and was born in New Jersey . His public career , upon which he entered at the close of the Revolutionary war , was mainly in ...
... Vice - President . He was a son of President Aaron Burr of Princeton College and a grandson of Jonathan Edwards and was born in New Jersey . His public career , upon which he entered at the close of the Revolutionary war , was mainly in ...
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... President Monroe's Cabinet and Vice - President with both Presidents John Quincy Adams and Andrew Jackson . He resigned the Vice - Presidency in 1831 and , thence- forth , represented South Carolina in the United States Senate . See ...
... President Monroe's Cabinet and Vice - President with both Presidents John Quincy Adams and Andrew Jackson . He resigned the Vice - Presidency in 1831 and , thence- forth , represented South Carolina in the United States Senate . See ...
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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.