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	ELS - ERD - Law By Country - United States Substantive Law - Constitution of the United States (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		But in choosing the President, the votes shall be taken by states, the representation from each state having one vote; a quorum for this purpose shall consist of a member or members from two-thirds of the states, and a majority of all the states shall be necessary to a choice.
		All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside.
		The fourteenth amendment to the Constitution of the United States was proposed to the legislatures of the several States by the Thirty-ninth Congress, on the 13th of June, 1866.
	www.law.emory.edu /FEDERAL/usconst/amend.html (2848 words)

	The Constitution of the United States of America
		United States.\51\ The test was bad because it vested vast discretion in the registrars to determine qualifications while imposing no definite and objective standards for administration of the tests, a system which the evidence showed had been administered so as to disqualify African Americans and qualify whites.
		Congress could rationally have concluded that, because electoral changes by jurisdictions with a demonstrable history of intentional racial discrimination in voting create the risk of purposeful discrimination, it was proper to prohibit changes that have a discriminatory impact.\59\ City of Rome is highly significant for the validity of congressional additions to the Voting Rights Act.
		United States, 425 U.S. 130 (1976), in which the Court had held that a covered jurisdiction was precluded from altering a voting practice only if the change would lead to a retrogression in the position of racial minorities; even if the change was only a little ameliorative of existing discrimination, the jurisdiction could implement it.
	www.gpoaccess.gov /constitution/html/amdt15.html (2958 words)

	United States Congress - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The United States Congress is the legislature of the United States federal government.
		House seats are apportioned among the states on the basis of population.
		The speech is modeled on the Speech from the Throne given by the British monarch, and is mandated by the Constitution of the United States.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/United_States_Congress (5557 words)

	Close Up Foundation Civics Education \| Constitution of the United States
		The Congress may determine the Time of choosing the Electors, and the Day on which they shall give their Votes; which Day shall be the same throughout the United States.
		The President shall, at stated Times, receive for his Services, a Compensation, which shall neither be increased 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.
		Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press, or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.
	www.closeup.org /const.htm (3859 words)

	History 270: The United States to 1865
		No two or more States shall enter into any treaty, confederation or alliance whatever between them, without the consent of the United States in Congress assembled, specifying accurately the purposes for which the same is to be entered into, and how long it shall continue.
		The United States in Congress assembled shall also be the last resort on appeal in all disputes and differences now subsisting or that hereafter may arise between two or more States concerning boundary, jurisdiction or any other cause whatever; which authority shall always be exercised in the manner following.
		Every State shall abide by the determinations of the United States in Congress assembled, on all questions which by this confederation are submitted to them.
	www.csun.edu /~vchis009/articles.html (552 words)

	Constitution for the United States of America
		The Congress may determine the Time of chusing the Electors, and the Day on which they shall give their Votes; which Day shall be the same throughout the United States.
		The conventions of a number of the States having at the time of their adopting the Constitution, expressed a desire, in order to prevent misconstruction or abuse of its powers, that further declaratory and restrictive clauses should be added.
		For purposes of representation in the Congress, election of the President and Vice President, and article V of this Constitution, the District constituting the seat of government of the United States shall be treated as though it were a State.
	www.constitution.org /cons/constitu.htm (4802 words)

	Amendments to the Constitution of the United States — Infoplease.com
		Amendment XV (The proposed amendment was sent to the states Feb. 27, 1869, by the Fortieth Congress.
		This article shall be inoperative unless it shall have been ratified as an amendment to the Constitution by convention in the several States, as provided in the Constitution, within seven years from the date of the submission thereof to the States by the Congress.
		The right of citizens of the United States, who are 18 years of age or older, to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any state on account of age.
	www.infoplease.com /ipa/A0749825.html (2100 words)

	The Constitution of the United States
		The Senate of the United States shall be composed of two Senators from each State, [chosen by the Legislature thereof,] Altered by 17th Amendment for six years; and each Senator shall have one vote.
		The Congress shall assemble at least once in every year, and such meeting shall be [on the first Monday in December,] Altered by 20th Amendment unless they by law appoint a different day.
		A person charged in any state with treason, felony, or other crime, who shall flee justice, and be found in another state, shall, on demand of the executive authority of the state from which he fled, be delivered up, to be removed to the state having jurisdiction of the crime.
	www.constitution.org /usconsti.htm (4078 words)

	The Rutherford B. Hayes Presidential Center
		The election of President Hayes was achieved through the conniving of members from both parties in Congress, the governor of a northern state and a member of the United States Supreme Court.
		Both houses of Congress and the public opinion of the country are plainly against the use of the army.
		Remarks of Rutherford B. Hayes, President of the United States, at the Ohio soldiers' Reunion, Columbus, Ohio, August 11, 1880, pp.
	www.rbhayes.org /rdb.htm (3086 words)

	Beinecke Cataloging Manual -- U.S. Congress (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		United States Congress special tracings are made for federal government documents printed and published before 1818 and cataloged as a monograph.
		The tracing is made in order to organize government documents from the Continental Congresses and the first fifteen Congresses in chronological order.
		Tracings are not made for publications issued after the fifteenth Congress since other reference tools are available.
	www.library.yale.edu /BeinCatM/uscongress.html (158 words)

	Fifteenth Amendment
		As a condition for re-admittance to the Union, the Congress proposed forcing the former Confederate states to ratify the Fifteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution.
		The United States Congress submitted the Fifteenth Amendment to the states for approval in February 1869.
		When the United States Congress submitted the Fifteenth Amendment to the states for approval, Democrats controlled the Ohio legislature and refused to ratify the amendment.
	www.ohiohistorycentral.org /entry.php?rec=1487 (532 words)

	15th United States Congress - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Fifteenth United States Congress was a meeting of the United States national legislature, comprised of the United States Senate and the United States House of Representatives.
		The apportionment of seats in this House of Representatives was based on the Third Census of the United States in 1810.
		In this Congress, Class 1 meant their term began in the last Congress, requiring reelection in 1820; Class 2 meant their term began with this Congress, requiring reelection in 1822; and Class 3 meant their term ended with this Congress, requiring reelection in 1818.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Fifteenth_United_States_Congress (1004 words)

	Biography of James Buchanan
		Tall, stately, stiffly formal in the high stock he wore around his jowls, James Buchanan was the only President who never married.
		He was elected five times to the House of Representatives; then, after an interlude as Minister to Russia, served for a decade in the Senate.
		Buchanan decided to end the troubles in Kansas by urging the admission of the territory as a slave state.
	www.whitehouse.gov /history/presidents/jb15.html (576 words)

	Blackburn Barrett Dovener, Captain, United States Army & Member of Congress
		In 1867 he was appointed as chief clerk in the office of the secretary of State, after which he decided to pursue the profession of law.
		By patience, perseverance and industry he won for himself a position at the bar and in the courts of his native state and adjoining states an enviable and worthy distinction as an able and successful practitioner.
		No member of Congress from this state has accomplished so much for the improvement of our water courses as this brilliant and gifted man. In the Fifty-fourth and in the Fifty-fifth Congresses, unaided and alone, he secured appropriations of $7,000,000 for the permanent improvements of the rivers in which West Virginia is directly interested.
	www.arlingtoncemetery.net /bdovener.htm (732 words)

	Constitution of the United States
		Washington, D.C. The Constitution of the United States
		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.
		No State shall, without the Consent of Congress, lay any Duty of Tonnage, keep Troops, or Ships of War in time of Peace, enter into any Agreement or Compact with another State, or with a foreign Power, or engage in War, unless actually invaded, or in such imminent Danger as will not admit of delay.
	www.civil-war.net /pages/united_states_constitution.asp (2754 words)

	United States History at Sedgwick (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Many students begin their study of the history of the United States with some research on an early Puritan settlement in Salem, Massachusetts which you may visit here.
		The Oregon Trail is a well-documented path, one of the routes that led settlers west.
		The National Gallery of the Spoken Word at the Michigan State University Libraries has recordings of the voices of several presidents (Cleveland, McKinley, Teddy Roosevelt, Taft, Wilson) as well as those of other notable persons of the past (Florence Nightengale and Will Rogers).
	www.whps.org /schools/SEDGWICK/research/ushstry.html (554 words)

	Membership of the 14th Congress of the United States
		Jonathan Fisk (resigned March, 1815 to become United States attorney for the southern district of New York)
		John Williams (appointed to fill the vacancy in the regular term caused by a recess of the legislature; served from October 10, 1815)
		(elected to fill the vacancy caused by the death of John Sevier; reelected to the Fifteenth Congress and served from December 8, 1815)
	borzoiblog.com /14th.htm (827 words)

	United States House of Representatives, 109th Congress, 2nd Session: Educational Links
		United States House of Representatives, 109th Congress, 2nd Session: Educational Links
		A list of Early Congressional Documents from the Constitutional Convention and the Continental Congress.
		A list of titles of the 85 Federalist Papers.
	www.house.gov /Constitution/Amend.html (126 words)

	1492: United States Constitution
		Local, State (NC) and Nationial politics will be the main focus of this site, with a splash of sports, tech, computers, books, sci-fi, tv, movies and whatever else catches my eye.
		The Constitution of the United States: A Transcription
		Note: The following text is a transcription of the Constitution in its original form.
	1492columbus.blogspot.com /2006/01/united-states-constitution.html (2650 words)

	The Avalon Project : U.S. Constitution : Amendments XI - XXVII
		XXVI - Lowering the voting age to 18 years
		XVII - U.S. Senators to be elected by direct popular vote
		XXIII - Presidential vote for the District of Columbia
	www.yale.edu /lawweb/avalon/amend1.htm (1440 words)

	Declaration of Independence, U.S. Constitution, Historical Documents (American Memory from the Library of Congress) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Declaration of Independence, U.S. Constitution, Historical Documents (American Memory from the Library of Congress)
		The Library of Congress > American Memory Home > Historical Documents
		Documents from the Continental Congress and the Constitutional Convention, 1774-1789
	memory.loc.gov /const/amend.html (46 words)

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