Representation in Congress for the District of Columbia, Hearing Before the Subcommittee on Constitutional Amendmendnts of ..., 93-1, on S.J. Res. 76....1974 - 103 lappuses |
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46. lappuse - A number of electors of President and Vice President equal to the whole number of Senators and Representatives in Congress to which the District would be entitled if it were a State, but in no event more than the least populous State...
51. lappuse - The District constituting the seat of Government of the United States shall appoint in such manner as the Congress may direct: A number of electors of President and Vice President equal to the whole number of Senators and Representatives in Congress to which the District would be entitled if it were a State...
36. lappuse - ... a municipal legislature for local purposes derived from their own suffrages will of course be allowed them...
74. lappuse - Court) for the exercise of the judicial power, and of investing them with jurisdiction either limited, concurrent, or exclusive, and of withholding jurisdiction from them in the exact degrees and character which to Congress may seem proper for the public good.
5. lappuse - The first is, that the rights and interests of every or any person are only secure from being disregarded, when the person interested is himself able, and habitually disposed, to stand up for them. The second is, that the general prosperity attains a greater height, and is more widely diffused, in proportion to the amount and variety of the personal energies enlisted in promoting it.
71. lappuse - In all the States of the Union, whose existing laws permit it, so long and to the same extent as the said laws shall remain in force, Frenchmen shall enjoy the right of possessing personal and real property by the same title and in the same manner as the citizens of the United States.
74. lappuse - But we know that the principle does not apply; and the reason is, that Congress is not a local legislature, but exercises this particular .power, like all its other powers, in its high character, as the legislature of the Union.
42. lappuse - State will no doubt provide in the compact for the rights and the consent of the citizens inhabiting it...
44. lappuse - The indispensable necessity of complete authority at the seat of government carries its own evidence with it. It is a power exercised by every legislature of the Union, I might say of the world, by virtue of its general supremacy. Without it, not only the public authority might be insulted and its proceedings...
26. lappuse - ... as they will have had their voice in the election of the government which is to exercise authority over them...