Constitutional Law in the United States

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Longmans, Green, and Company, 1904 - 438 pages
 

Contents

PUNISHMENT OF CRIME
90
TRIAL BY JURY
91
Crimes in Places within Exclusive Federal Jurisdiction
96
Direct Taxation by Federal Government Income Tax
139
REGULATION OF COmmerce
148
Freedom of Commercial Intercourse Protected
154
State Taxation of Commerce
160
CREATION AND REGULATION PAGE 94 References
164
Classes of Corporations
165
Powers of States as to Private Corporations
167
Public Corporations Classified
168
Power of Federal Government to Create Corporations
170
OTHER ENUMERATED POWERS OF CONGRESS 99 References
172
Naturalization
173
Bankruptcy
177
Copyrights and Patents
178
Weights and Measures
181
Slavery and Peonage
182
Government of District of Columbia
184
WAR POWERS 108 References
187
State Militia
188
Federal Power as to State Militia
189
Power to Declare War
190
Military Law
191
Subordination of the Military to the Civil Authority
192
IMPLIED POWERS OF THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT 116 References
194
Restrictions on the Exercise of Power by Congress
196
Part IV
197
LEGISLATIVE FUNCTIONS OF THE EXECUTIVE VETO
206
DIPLOMATIC RELATIONS TREATYMAKING POWER
213
Part V
219
CASES OF FEDERAL JURISDICTION PAGE 144 References
229
Constitutional Enumeration
230
Cases Affecting Ambassadors etc
232
Admiralty Cases
233
Cases to which the United States is a Party
234
Controversies between States
235
Controversies between a State and Citizens of Another State
236
Controversies between Citizens of Different States
237
Controversies under Land Grants of Different States
238
Controversies between a State and Foreign States or between Citizens and Aliens
239
THE EXERCISE OF FEDERAL JUDICIAL POWER 155 References
240
Jurisdiction by Removal
241
Jurisdiction by Appeal from State to Federal Courts
242
Authority of the Judiciary to pass upon the Constitu tionality of Statutes
255
Part VI
256
Guaranty of Republican Government in the States
258
Guaranty against Invasion or Domestic Violence
259
Reconstruction of States
260
ADMISSION OF STATES 177 References
262
Change of State Boundaries
263
Steps for Admission of States
264
TERRITORIAL GOVERNMENTS 184 References
265
The Constitution in the Territories
266
RELATION OF THE STATES TO EACH OTHER 187 References
268
Extradition of Criminals 209
269
Privileges and Immunities of State Citizenship
271
Faith and Credit to Acts Records and Judgments of the States
273
VIII Contents xix
275
Citizenship in the United States by Birth
277
Citizenship in the United States by Naturalization
279
Privileges Pertaining to United States Citizenship
280
POLITICAL PRIVILEGES 197 References
284
The Fifteenth Amendment
285
The Holding of Office
287
Jury Service
288
Part VIII
289
Classification of Individual Rights Specially Guaran teed and Protected
292
RELIGIOUS LIBERTY 206 References
295
Taxation for the Support of Religion
297
Sunday Laws Blasphemy etc
299
Religious Belief no Defence for Violating Law
300
FREEDOM OF SPEECH AND THE PRESS
301
RIGHTS OF ASSEMBLY AND PETITION
309
GUARANTIES AS TO PROSECUTIONS FOR CRIME
315
What are Property Rights Protected by Due Process
350
Constitutional Provisions as to Contracts
356
Corporate Charters
362
A Extracts from Magna Charta 1215
369
Virginia Bill of Rights 1776
382
E Articles of Confederation 1781
389
F The Northwest Ordinance 1787
398
G Constitution of the United States 1789
405
INDEX
425
358
429
363
437
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Page 408 - Party, the Supreme Court shall have original Jurisdiction. In all the other Cases before mentioned, the supreme Court shall have appellate Jurisdiction, both as to Law and Fact, with such Exceptions, and under such Regulations as the Congress shall make. (3) The Trial of all Crimes, except in Cases of Impeachment, shall be by Jury; and such Trial shall be held in the State where...
Page 388 - The United States in Congress assembled shall also have the sole and exclusive right and power of regulating the alloy and value of coin struck by their own authority, or by that of the respective States.
Page 388 - ... and to consist of one delegate from each state, and to appoint such other committees and civil officers as may be necessary for managing the general affairs of the United States, under their direction : to appoint one of their number to preside, provided that no person be allowed to serve in the office of president more than one year in any term of three years : to ascertain the necessary sums of money to be raised for the service of the United States, and to appropriate and apply the same for...
Page 342 - By the law of the land is most clearly intended the general law ; a law which hears before it condemns, which proceeds upon inquiry, and renders judgment only after trial.
Page 384 - If any person guilty of, or charged with treason, felony, or other high misdemeanor in any State, shall flee from justice, and be found in any of the United States, he shall upon demand of the Governor or Executive power, of the State from which he fled, be delivered up and removed to the State having jurisdiction of his offence.
Page 381 - He has abdicated Government here, by declaring us out of his Protection and waging War against us. He has plundered our seas, ravaged our Coasts, burnt our towns, and destroyed the lives of our people. He is at this time transporting large Armies of foreign Mercenaries to compleat the works of death, desolation and tyranny, already begun with circumstances of Cruelty & perfidy scarcely paralleled in the most barbarous ages, and totally unworthy the Head of a civilized nation. He has constrained our...
Page 406 - The President shall, at stated Times, receive for his Services, a Compensation, which shall neither be encreased nor diminished during the Period for which he shall have been elected, and he shall not receive within that Period any other Emolument from the United States, or any of them. " Before he enter on the Execution of his Office, he shall take the following Oath or Affirmation...
Page 388 - Regulating the trade and managing all affairs with the Indians, not members of any of the States ; provided that the legislative right of any State within its own limits be not infringed or violated...
Page 397 - The legislatures yf those districts or new states, shall never interfere with the primary disposal of the soil by the United States in Congress assembled, nor with any regulations Congress may find necessary for securing the title in such soil to the bona fide purchasers. No tax shall be imposed on lands the property of the United States ; and, in no case shall non-resident proprietors be taxed higher than residents.
Page 409 - The Congress shall have Power to dispose of and make all needful Rules and Regulations respecting the Territory or other Property belonging to the United States ; and nothing in this Constitution shall be so construed as to Prejudice any Claims of the United States, or of any particular State. SECTION 4. 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...

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