Our Government: How it Grew, what it Does, and how it Does itGinn & Company, 1897 |
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Page 277 - law, or in the heads of departments. 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. Section III. Duties of the President. He shall, from time to time, give
Page 282 - for a redress of grievances. ARTICLE II. A well regulated militia being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed. ARTICLE III. No soldier shall, in time
Page 286 - number shall be necessary to a choice. 3. But no person constitutionally ineligible to the office of President shall be eligible to that of Vice-Presdent of the United States. ARTICLE XIII. 1 1. Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have 1 Proposed by Congress February 1,
Page 32 - the sole and exclusive right of governing themselves as a free, sovereign, and independent state; and having from their ancestors derived a free and excellent constitution of government, whereby the legislature depends on the free and annual election of the people, they have the best security for the preservation of their civil and religious rights and liberties.
Page 271 - ity over all places purchased, by the consent of the Legislature of the State, in which the same shall be, for the erection of forts, magazines, arsenals, dock-yards, and other needful buildings; and 18. To make all laws which shall
Page 273 - He shall hold his office during the terra of four years, and, together with the Vice-President, chosen for the same term, be elected as follows: — 2. Each State shall appoint, in such
Page 286 - and declared in force December 18,1865. been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction. 2. Congress shall have power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation. ARTICLE XIV. 1 1. All persons born or naturalized in
Page 288 - Proposed by Congress February 26, 1869, and declared in force March 30, 1870. States or any State on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude. 2. The Congress shall have power to enforce by appropriate legislation the provisions of this article. INDEX. INDEX.
Page 210 - Any person who shall, after this constitution shall have gone into effect, detain in slavery any person emancipated by the provisions of this constitution, shall, on conviction, be fined not less than five hundred dollars nor more than five thousand dollars, or be imprisoned not more than five years
Page 277 - the officers of the United States. Section IV. Impeachment of the President. The President, Vice-President, and all civil officers of the United States shall be removed from office on impeachment for and conviction of treason, bribery, or other high crimes and misdemeanors. ARTICLE III. JUDICIAL DEPARTMENT. Section I. United States Courts. The judicial power of the United States