The Parliamentary Pathfinder: A Quick Reference Manual of Rules of Order for the Government of Deliberative Assemblies According to American Parliamentary Law and PracticeT. Y. Crowell & Company, 1903 - 156 страници |
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Страница 134 - 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.
Страница 120 - State shall appoint, in such Manner as the Legislature thereof may direct, a Number of Electors, equal to the whole number of Senators and Representatives to which the State may be entitled in the Congress : but no Senator or Representative, or. Person holding an Office of Trust • or Profit under the United States, shall be appointed an Elector. 3 ["The electors shall meet in their respective States, and vote by ballot for two Persons, of whom one at least shall not be an Inhabitant of the same...
Страница 136 - Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances.
Страница 135 - Dayton. PENNSYLVANIA — Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Mifflin, Robert Morris, George Clymer, Thomas Fitzsimons, Jared Ingersoll, James Wilson, Gouverneur Morris. DELAWARE — George Read, Gunning Bedford, Jr., John Dickinson, Richard Bassett, Jacob Broom. MARYLAND — James McHenry, Daniel of St. Thomas Jenifer, Daniel Carroll. VIRGINIA — John Blair, James Madison, Jr. NORTH CAROLINA — William Blount, Richard Dobbs Spaight, Hugh Williamson. SOUTH CAROLINA — John Rutledge, Charles Cotesworth Pinckney,...
Страница 131 - States, or by convention in three-fourths thereof, as the one or the other mode of ratification may be proposed by 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.
Страница 134 - William Paterson Jonathan Dayton Pennsylvania Benjamin Franklin Thomas Mifflin Robert Morris George Clymer Thomas Fitzsimons Jared Ingersoll James Wilson Gouverneur Morris Delaware George Read Gunning Bedford, Jr. John Dickinson Richard Bassett Jacob Broom Maryland James M'Henry Daniel of St. Thomas Jenifer Daniel Carroll Virginia John Blair James Madison, Jr. North Carolina William Blount Richard Dobbs Spaight Hugh Williamson South Carolina John Rutledge Charles C. Pinckney Charles Pinckney Pierce...
Страница 77 - The regular progression in this case is, that the commons disagree to the amendment ; the lords insist on it ; the commons insist on their disagreement ; the lords adhere to their amendment; the commons adhere to their disagreement. The term of insisting may be repeated as often as they choose to keep the question open. But the first adherence by either renders it necessary for the other to recede or adhere also ; when the matter is usually suffered to fall.
Страница 116 - Congress, become the seat of the Government of the United States, and to exercise like authority 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.
Страница 77 - When either House, eg the House of Commons, send a bill to the other, the other may pass it with amendments. The regular progression in this case,'is, that the commons disagree to the amendment; the lords insist on it; the commons insist on their disagreement; the lords adhere to their amendment! the commons adhere to their disagreement. The term of insisting may be repeated as often as they choose to keep the question open.
Страница 117 - No bill of attainder or ex post facto law shall be passed. 47. *No capitation, or other direct tax, shall be laid, unless in proportion to the census or enumeration herein before directed to be taken. 48.