Download or read book Our Changing Constitution Classic Reprint written by Charles W. Pierson and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-09-17 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Our Changing Constitution The American Constitution, its ori gin and contents. Wherein its nov elty and greatness lay. Impor tance of maintaining the equilibrium established between national and state power. View of John Fiske. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book Our Changing Constitution written by Charles Wheeler Pierson and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Our Changing Constitution written by Charles W. Pierson and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-05-24 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of literature attempts to compile many of the classic works that have stood the test of time and offer them at a reduced, affordable price, in an attractive volume so that everyone can enjoy them.
Download or read book The United States written by Alexander Johnston and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-01-29 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The United States: Its History and Constitution The contents of the present volume, by the late Pro fessor Alexander Johnston, first appeared as the article of the Encyclopaedia Britannica on the history and Con stitution of the United States. The narrative, it should be borne in mind, ends with the year 1887 -the last of the period entitled by the author The Reconstructed Nation: 1865 There are, however, few details which the events of the past two years have modified, and few which need to be supplemented. Some slight verbal changes, where evidently indicated, have been made in this sense, a note added with reference to the admission into the Union of Washington, Montana, and North and South Dakota, and the election of Harrison and Morton, and the prohibition of Chinese immigration chronicled. It has not been thought advisable, however, to change or supplement the text in two or three other instances in which statistics of 1889 might have been given, but in which the reader will perceive those of 1887 to have been retained as better preserving the con. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book The Origin and Growth of the American Constitution Classic Reprint written by Hannis Taylor and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2015-07-08 with total page 726 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Origin and Growth of the American Constitution A long time has elapsed since the author undertook to draw out The Origin and Growth of the English Constitution, within the limits of two octavo volumes, the first of which is in the eighth edition, the second in the fourth. The very cordial reception given to that work throughout the Eng lish-speaking world and beyond it naturally suggested a sequel to be entitled The Origin and Growth of the American Constitution, which has been completed on the same plan. After thirty years of effort to unfold the histories of the two closely related constitutions as one progressive development, the author was blessed with a piece of good fortune which has more than requited all the labor bestowed. That good fortune consisted of the unearthing of a priceless document, very near the surface, which has cast a bright light into what was heretofore a very dark place. It explains for the first time the real history of the invention of that marvelous system of government, partly federal and partly national, given to the world by the Federal Con vention at the close of its labors at Philadelphia on September 17, 1787. Beyond that point the in uence of the document in question does not extend, - except in one important particular it sheds no new light on the after history. So far as this book is concerned, it is a mere episode, simply one link in a long chain of causation presented herein as a connected whole. It is, however, a great thing to know for certain that the most notable of all political inventions had a personal inventor; that the entirely unique and path-breaking creation embodied in the American Constitution came into being in a perfectly normal way; that its birth was neither mythical nor miraculous. Beginning upon that sane basis an effort has been made to unfold the growth of that Constitution according to the Historical Method, which regards all law, public and private, as a living and growing organism that changes as the relations of society change. When that method is applied to such data as are contained in printed documents, the growth of constitutions may be worked out by processes almost as exact as those employed in physical science. As Bishop Stubbs has happily ex pressed it: I confess that to me, as an old investigator, a good deal of the accepted theory of continuous history, in this region, at least, of history, seems to rest on arguments as sound, within its own material and area, as those on which Copernicus and Kepler worked out their astronomical con elusions. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works."
Download or read book Review of the Constitution of the United States written by W. G. Bullitt and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-07 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Review of the Constitution of the United States: Including Changes by Interpretation and Amendment for Lawyers and Those Not Learned in the Law The tendency of the officials of every nation is to augment their own importance and powers by grasping additional powers for the government they represent. The accomplishment of this augmentation of powers to the government must take place by periodic steps, each step appearing innocent at the time, or of too little importance to attract attention. Every additional power seized for the government must be taken from the reserved powers, or from powers lodged elsewhere by the organization of the government. In the United States, certain powers are retained in the states, and all powers not granted to the United States, nor prohibited to the states, are reserved to the states respectively or the people. This division of powers between the United States and the several states, makes each, in guarding its own powers, necessarily guard the reserved powers of the people; so that, whether the powers so seized for the United States be taken from the people, or the states, the people will be the sufferers; hence, we must not only be watchful of the reserved powers of the people, but must be mindful of the powers of the states. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book Methods of Constitutional Reform written by Emeritus Professor of Music George Pratt and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2016-09-02 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Methods of Constitutional Reform: With Reasons Why No Constitutional Convention Should Be Called by the General Assembly The act of calling a constitutional convention would show that a majority of the House of Representatives deemed it necessary to alter or amend the constitution. For, if they did not deem it necessary, they would take no steps to call a convention. But the constitution says, that when they deem it necessary to alter or amend the constitution they shall act in the method pointed out in the instrument. Can they act in another manner and not violate the constitution? About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book The Commerce Clause of the Federal Constitution Classic Reprint written by Frederick H. Cooke and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-02-22 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Commerce Clause of the Federal Constitution I have freely, even severely, criticized views expressed by those doubtless far more likely than myself to reach correct conclusions in these matters. But I trust that, even if my conclusions be erroneous, a statement thereof may assist toward ascertainment of the truth. If in any instance mv criticism has transgressed the bounds of propriety, I here take occasion to make my amende honorable. Not as adventitious therefore will the wise man regard the faith which is in him. The highest truth he sees he will fearlessly utter; knowing that, let what may come of it, he is thus playing his right part in the world knowing that if he can effect the change he aims at well: if not well also, though not so well. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book Constitution Making in Rhode Island Classic Reprint written by Amasa Mason Eaton and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-11 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Constitution-Making in Rhode Island About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book The Methods of Changing the Constitutions of the States written by C. S. Bradley and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2015-07-15 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Methods of Changing the Constitutions of the States: Especially That of Rhode Island The Court say in their charge: This evidence we have ruled out. Courts and juries, gentlemen, do not count votes to determine whether a constitution has been adopted or a gov erner elected or not. Courts take notice, without proof offered from the bar, what the constitution is or was, and who is or was the governor of their own State. It belongs to the Legislature to exercise this high duty. It is the Legislature which, in the exercise of its delegated sovereignty, counts the votes and de clares whether a constitution be adopted or a governor elected or not, and we cannot revive or reverse their acts in this par ticular, without usurping their power. And why not? Be cause if we did so we should cease to be a mere judicial, and become a political, tribunal, with the whole sovereignty in our hand; neither the people nor the Legislature would be sover eign we should be sovereign, or you would be sovereign. Sovereignty is above courts and juries, and the creature can not sit in judgment upon its creator. The admirable statement of the principle that on this subject in this particular, if the Legislature pronounces a government to be constitutional and valid, it is not in the power of its courts to pronounce such government unconstitutional and void, was quoted in full by Mr. Webster, in his argument of the Rhode Island ease, Luther v. Borden, before the Supreme Court. That Court gave upon this point a unanimous judgment, and refer to the clear and forcible opinion of the Supreme Court of Rhode Island, in the trial of Dorr. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book Our Changing Constitution written by Charles Wheeler Pierson and published by Legare Street Press. This book was released on 2022-10-27 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Download or read book MINORITY REPORT OF THE JOINT S written by Rhode Island General Assembly and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2016-09-04 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Minority Report of the Joint Special Committee on Constitutional Changes: Made to the General Assembly, at Its January Session, A. D. 1887 On March 3oth, 1883, the Supreme Court, in response to questions submitted to it by the Honorable Senate, answered. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book Constitution and By Laws of the New Jersey Historical Society written by New Jersey Historical Society and published by . This book was released on 2016-07-05 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Constitution and by-Laws of the New Jersey Historical Society: Revised May 20, 1897 Complaints, and matters whatsoever; and that they and their successors may have a common seal, and the same break, alter, change and renew at their pleasure; and, by the same, shall be for ever hereafter capable in law to purchase. Take, hold, receive, and enjoy, to them and their successors, any lands, tenements, hereditaments, goods, chattels, or estate, real or personal, of whatever nature or quality, in fee simple, for life or lives, or for years, or in any other manner whatsoever; provided always, that the yearly income or value of the said real or personal estate, or both, do not at any time exceed the sum of two thousand dollars. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book Count the Cost written by Jonathan Steadfast and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-01-18 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Count the Cost: An Address to the People of Connecticut, on Sundry Political Subjects and Particularly on the Proposition for a New Constitution An attempt is now making in this State to change the vital principles of our government, to remove from office all our present rulers, and to introduce a new order of things. To these innovations the people are invited, allured and exhorted - To effect these objects no pains are spared - no exertions are omitted. An important question here arises, viz. Would the accomplish ment of the object be worth the cost -an individual who neither holds an office nor seeks one - who can have nothing in View but the maintenance of that order of things which shall most effectually promote public and private happiness, and who has the same interest in the welfare of society as the great body of his fellow citizens, re quests the dispassionate attention of the reader, while he considers this important subject. He will use no weapon but truth, and truth will be regarded by all except those who love darkness rather than light. To exhibit a correct View of the subject, it will be proper, first, to enquire into the present condition of Connecticut, and secondly, to examine the various plans or projects proposed for our adoption, and estimate the probable cost attending them. We can then in the third place form a just opinion of the propriety of the proposed changes. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book How the Republic Is Governed Classic Reprint written by PROFESSOR NOAH. BROOKS and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2015-07-16 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from How the Republic Is Governed In the fifth article of the Constitution it is provided that the instrument may be amended in the following manner: Congress may at any time propose amendments thereto, provided two-thirds of the members of each house Of Congress Shall vote in favor Of said amend ments and then the proposed amendments Shall be submitted to the States and be ratified by the Legislatures Of, or by conventions of, three-fourths of said States. Or, Congress may, on the application Of the Legislatures of two thirds Of the States, call a convention Of dele gates, or deputies, to propose amendments to the Constitution, such amendments to be sub sequently acted upon by the State Legisla tures, as before provided. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book Reflections on the Changes Which May Seem Necessary in the Present Constitution of the State of New York Classic Reprint written by Francis Lieber and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-08 with total page 54 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Reflections on the Changes Which May Seem Necessary in the Present Constitution of the State of New York Dear Sir: I have the honor to advise you that the Club, at its monthly meeting on May 9th, after a deliberate discussion, unanimously adopted the following preamble and resolution: "In view of the early meeting of the Convention for the formation of a new Constitution of the State, it is deemed advisable to obtain all the light which study and experience afford upon this important subject; and believing that the distinguished ability of Dr. Francis Lieber, and his erudition in all matters connected with public law, qualify him especially to speak on the subject: Therefore, be it Resolved, That Dr. Francis Lieber be requested to write his views on the subject as to the principal points to be looked to in the formation of the new Constitution, and that the Publication Committee of the Club be instructed to print the same and send a copy to each member of the Convention, the governor and judges of the State, and the members of the Legislature; also, to circulate it generally." An extract from the minutes. In communicating this action of the Club, embodying so high a tribute to your eminence as a publicist, and which, I trust, will secure to the approaching Convention the benefit of your valuable 11 suggestions, I beg to add that the Publication Committee will be requested immediately to advise with you upon the subject with which they are charged by the resolution. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
