The Citizens' Manual of Government and Law: Comprising the Elementary Principles of Civil Government; a Practical View of the State Governments, and of the Government of the United States; a Digest of Common and Statutory Law, and of the Law of Nations; and a Summary of Parliamentary Rules for the Practice of Deliberative AssembliesH. Dayton, 1858 - 448 страница |
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... punishable by death , to the discretion of the judges , to be fixed according to the aggravation of the offense . § 2. The laws of the several states differ in respect to the number of crimes made punishable by death . In some states ...
... punishable by death , to the discretion of the judges , to be fixed according to the aggravation of the offense . § 2. The laws of the several states differ in respect to the number of crimes made punishable by death . In some states ...
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... punishable by death . Few states make more than these crimes thus punishable . In two or three states , the penalty of death has been abolished , and imprisonment for life substituted . §3 . Crimes punishable by death , are called ...
... punishable by death . Few states make more than these crimes thus punishable . In two or three states , the penalty of death has been abolished , and imprisonment for life substituted . §3 . Crimes punishable by death , are called ...
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... is usually punishable in the same manner as larceny of the same amount . § 14. Larceny is theft or stealing . The stealing of prop- erty above a certain amount in value , is called Chap . XXVIII . ] 105 STATE GOVERNMENTS .
... is usually punishable in the same manner as larceny of the same amount . § 14. Larceny is theft or stealing . The stealing of prop- erty above a certain amount in value , is called Chap . XXVIII . ] 105 STATE GOVERNMENTS .
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... punishable as perjury . § 16. Bribery is promising or giving a reward to a public officer , to influence his opinion , vote or judgment . A person accepting such bribe , is punishable in the same manner , and forfeits his office , and ...
... punishable as perjury . § 16. Bribery is promising or giving a reward to a public officer , to influence his opinion , vote or judgment . A person accepting such bribe , is punishable in the same manner , and forfeits his office , and ...
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... punishable in a state prison , are usually called misdemeanors , and are punishable by fine or imprisonment in a county jail . There are numerous other misdemeanors and immoralities , as profane cursing and swearing , betting and gaming ...
... punishable in a state prison , are usually called misdemeanors , and are punishable by fine or imprisonment in a county jail . There are numerous other misdemeanors and immoralities , as profane cursing and swearing , betting and gaming ...
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Страница 369 - Houses repeatedly, for opposing with manly firmness his invasions on the rights of the people. He has refused for a long time, after such dissolutions to cause others to be elected ; whereby the Legislative Powers, incapable of Annihilation, have returned to the People at large for their exercise ; the State remaining in the mean time exposed to all the dangers of invasion from without, and convulsions within.
Страница 370 - Determined to keep open a market where men should be bought and sold, he has prostituted his negative for suppressing every legislative attempt to prohibit or to restrain this execrable commerce.
Страница 373 - ... do all other acts and things which independent states may of right do. And, for the support of this declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of Divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our lives, our fortunes, and our sacred honor. The foregoing Declaration was, by order of Congress, engrossed, and signed by the following members...
Страница 379 - To coin money, regulate the value thereof, and of foreign coin, and fix the standard of weights and measures; To provide for the punishment of counterfeiting the securities and current coin of the United States; To establish post offices and post roads...
Страница 431 - Of all the dispositions and habits which lead to political prosperity, religion and morality are indispensable supports. In vain would that man claim the tribute of patriotism, who should labor to subvert these great pillars of human happiness, these firmest props of the duties of men and citizens.
Страница 420 - Measures, is hereby declared inoperative and void : it being the true intent and meaning of this act, not to legislate slavery into any territory or state, nor to exclude it therefrom, but to leave the people thereof perfectly free to form and regulate their domestic institutions in their own way, subject only to the constitution of the United States...
Страница 374 - M'Kean. Maryland. — Samuel Chase, William Paca, Thomas Stone, Charles Carroll, of Carrollton. Virginia. — George Wythe, Richard Henry Lee, Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Harrison, Thomas Nelson, Jr., Francis Lightfoot Lee, Carter Braxton. North Carolina. — William Hooper, Joseph 'Hewes, John Penn. South Carolina. — Edward Rutledge, Thomas Heyward, Jr., Thomas Lynch, Jr., Arthur Middleton. Georgia. — Button Gwinnett, Lyman Hall, George Walton.
Страница 116 - Resolved that in the opinion of Congress it is expedient that on the second Monday in May next a Convention of delegates who shall have been appointed by the several States be held at Philadelphia for the sole and express purpose of revising the Articles of Confederation and reporting to Congress and the several legislatures such alterations and provisions therein as shall when agreed to in Congress and confirmed by the States...
Страница 369 - He has [suffered] * the administration of justice [totally to cease in some of these States] 2 refusing his assent to laws for establishing judiciary powers. He has made [our] judges dependent on his will alone for the tenure of their offices, and the amount and payment of their salaries. He has erected a multitude of new offices, [by a self-assumed power\ and sent hither swarms of new officers to harass our people and eat out their substance.
Страница 431 - Whatever may be conceded to the influence of refined education on minds of peculiar structure, reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principle.