Our Constitution and Government: Lessons on the Constitution and Government of the United States for Use in the Public Schools by Candidates for CitizenshipU.S. Government Printing Office, 1955 - 226 pagini |
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Pagina 39
... amendment be pre- pared in a convention . The Constitution says , therefore , that amendments may be prepared in that way . If the legislatures of two - thirds of the States request it , the Con- gress must call a national convention to ...
... amendment be pre- pared in a convention . The Constitution says , therefore , that amendments may be prepared in that way . If the legislatures of two - thirds of the States request it , the Con- gress must call a national convention to ...
Pagina 40
... amendment . Whenever three- fourths of the State legislatures or State conventions vote " yes , " the amendment becomes a part of the Constitution . Twenty - two amendments have been added to the Consti- tution of the United States ...
... amendment . Whenever three- fourths of the State legislatures or State conventions vote " yes , " the amendment becomes a part of the Constitution . Twenty - two amendments have been added to the Consti- tution of the United States ...
Pagina 41
... Amendment says that the National Govern- ment shall not do certain things . It says that the " Con- gress shall make ... Amendment protects our right to join the church we please . We do not need to belong to a certain church in order to ...
... Amendment says that the National Govern- ment shall not do certain things . It says that the " Con- gress shall make ... Amendment protects our right to join the church we please . We do not need to belong to a certain church in order to ...
Pagina 42
... Amendment is to prevent the National Government from setting up a church and making all people support it . If the people want to keep the right to choose their own church , then the Government which protects the right must continue to ...
... Amendment is to prevent the National Government from setting up a church and making all people support it . If the people want to keep the right to choose their own church , then the Government which protects the right must continue to ...
Pagina 43
... Amendment also gives " the right . . . peace- ably to assemble . " This means that the Government can- not keep us from gathering in a quiet manner in groups for any proper purpose . The colonists often met to decide questions of public ...
... Amendment also gives " the right . . . peace- ably to assemble . " This means that the Government can- not keep us from gathering in a quiet manner in groups for any proper purpose . The colonists often met to decide questions of public ...
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Our Constitution and Government: Lessons on the Constitution and Government ... Catheryn Seckler-Hudson Vizualizare completă - 1973 |
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Pagina 187 - Electors appointed, and if no person have a majority, then from the two highest numbers on the list, the Senate shall choose the Vice President ; a quorum for the purpose shall consist of two-thirds of the whole number of Senators, and a majority of the whole number shall be necessary to a choice. But no person constitutionally ineligible to the office of President shall be eligible to that of Vice President of the United States.
Pagina 191 - The eighteenth article of amendment to the Constitution of the United States is hereby repealed. SECTION 2. The transportation or importation into any State, Territory, or possession of the United States for delivery or use therein of intoxicating liquors in violation of the laws thereof, is hereby prohibited. SECTION 3. This article shall be inoperative unless it shall have been ratified as an amendment to the Constitution by conventions in the several States, as provided in the Constitution, within...
Pagina 180 - No person held to service or labour in one State, under the laws thereof, escaping into another, shall, in consequence of any law or regulation therein, be discharged from such service or labour, but shall be delivered up on claim of the party to whom such service or labour may be due. Section 3. 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...
Pagina 172 - All Bills for raising Revenue shall originate in the House of Representatives ; but the Senate may propose or concur with Amendments as on other Bills.
Pagina 190 - January, of the years in which such terms would have ended if this article had not been ratified; and the terms of their successors shall then begin.
Pagina 171 - The Congress shall assemble at least once in every year, and such meeting shall be on the first Monday in December, unless they shall, by law, appoint a different day.
Pagina 181 - 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. ARTICLE VI. All debts contracted and engagements entered into before the adoption of this Constitution shall be as valid against the United States under this Constitution as under the Confederation.
Pagina 177 - ... States, and a Majority of all the States shall be necessary to a Choice. In every Case, after the Choice of the President, the Person having the greatest Number of Votes of the Electors shall be the Vice President. But if there should remain two or more who have equal Votes, the Senate shall chuse from them by Ballot the Vice President...
Pagina 169 - All legislative Powers herein granted shall be vested in a Congress of the United States, which shall consist of a Senate and House of Representatives. SECTION 2. The House of Representatives shall be composed of Members chosen every second Year by the People of the several States, and the Electors in each State shall have the Qualifications requisite for Electors of the most numerous Branch of the State Legislature.
Pagina 186 - The electors shall meet in their respective states and vote by ballot for president and vice president, one of whom, at least, shall not be an inhabitant of the same state with themselves; they shall name in their ballots the person voted for as president, and in distinct ballots the person voted for as vice...