United States Constitutional History and Law

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Central book Company, 1908 - Constitutional history - 599 pages
 

Contents

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CHAPTER IV
102
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128
CHAPTER V
134
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141
CHAPTER XII
159
PAGE
185
CHAPTER VI
189
The executive department
193
The judicial department
194
The government of the United States as a whole
195
CHAPTER VII
197
Beginning of the representative character of parlia ment
199
The division of parliament into two houses
200
Colonial and state legislatures
202
Apportionment of representatives
203
The house of representatives
204
Qualifications of representatives
206
Method of electing senators and representatives Meetings of congress
209
Rules of proceedings punishment and expulsion of members
210
Journals of congress their publication
212
Adjournment of congress
213
Privileges of members of congress
214
Bills for raising revenue
217
Impeachments
222
Legal reforms of Henry the Second
224
CHAPTER VIII
227
Restriction upon the power of taxation
230
Direct and indirect taxes
231
Collateral powers implied from the power of taxation
238
The legal tender cases
241
The power to regulate commerce
248
Bankruptcy laws
250
The power to coin money
252
Fixing the standard of weights and measures
253
Post offices and post roads
254
Patents
256
Copyrights
259
The establishment of inferior federal tribunals
260
Declaration of war letters of marque and reprisal
262
The army
263
The navy
264
The government and regulation of the land and naval forces
265
Organizing and drilling the militia
266
The seat of government of the United States
267
The implied power of congress
269
Powers denied to congress
272
The slave trade
273
Habeas corpus bills of attainder and ex post facto laws
274
Drawing money from the treasury
275
Titles of nobility
276
CHAPTER IX
277
The constitutional convention
278
The twelfth amendment
281
Counting the votes for President
283
Succession to the presidency
284
Compensation of President
285
Commanderinchief of the army and navy
287
The pardoning power
288
Treaties and foreign relations
291
Appointment of public officers
296
Messages to congress convening and adjourning con gress
299
Executing the laws
300
Relation of President to the courts
301
The President as part of the legislative department
302
Impeachments
303
CHAPTER X
305
Privileges and disabilities of judges
306
Power to declare acts of congress unconstitutional
307
Controversies between a state and citizens of another state
321
Between citizens of different states
324
Between citizens of the same state claiming land under grants from different states
325
Between a state or citizens thereof and foreign states citizens or subjects
326
United States courts
328
District courts
330
Circuit courts
333
Jurisdiction of circuit courts in bankruptcy proceed ings
336
Criminal jurisdiction of the circuit courts
337
Appellate jurisdiction of circuit courts
340
Appeals from circuit court of appeals to supreme court
342
Appeals from territorial courts to Supreme court
343
Original jurisdiction of the Supreme court
344
Statutory provisions as to original jurisdiction of the Supreme court
345
Criminal jurisdiction of United States courts
346
CHAPTER XI
347
Construction
348
The first eight amendments
349
The writ of habeas corpus
350
Bills of attainder
353
Ex post facto laws
355
Treason
357
Evidence for conviction of treason
359
Freedom of speech
361
Right of assembly
363
The quartering of soldiers
364
Rights of persons accused of crime
365
Indictment
366
Double jeopardy
367
Incriminating evidence
369
Due process of law
371
The taking of private property and the right of eminent domain
374
Trial by jury in criminal cases
376
Nature and cause of the accusation
378
Witnesses and counsel
379
Jury trials in civil cases
380
Excessive bails and fines and cruel and unusual pun ishments
382
The last three amendments
383
THE REGULATION OF COMMERCE
384
What is commerce?
387
What commerce does not include
391
The power of the states over interstate commerce
394
Later cases
395
Crandall v Nevada
405
The Interstate Commerce Commission
408
The antitrust act
412
Recent statutes and decisions
414
CHAPTER XIII
416
The Dred Scott Decision
417
The war period
420
The reconstruction period
424
The last three amendments
426
The Fourteenth Amendment
428
The Slaughter House case
431
The Fourteenth Amendment continued
434
Due process of law
435
Equal protection of the laws
438
Apportionment of representatives
441
Citizenship
442
The Fifteenth Amendment
448
CHAPTER XIV
450
Government of territory belonging to the United States but not included within the limits of any state
451
The Bill of Rights in territory belonging to the United States
454
Revenue laws of the United States
459
CHAPTER XV
472
CHAPTER XVI
481
K The Interstate Commerce Act
545
INDEX
581
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