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Page 54 - States, to devise such further provisions as shall appear to them necessary to render the constitution of the federal government adequate to the exigencies of the union...
Page 93 - President shall be elected; provided, that whenever the powers and duties of the office of President of the United States shall devolve upon any of the persons named herein, if Congress be not then in session, or if it would not meet in accordance with law within twenty days thereafter, it shall be the duty of the person upon whom said powers and duties shall devolve to issue a proclamation convening Congress in extraordinary session, giving twenty days' notice of the time of meeting.
Page 102 - States present the seventeenth day of September in the Year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and eighty-seven, and of the Independence of the United States of America the twelfth.
Page 93 - Congress in extraordinary session, giving twenty days' notice of the time of meeting. SEC. 2. That the preceding section shall only be held to describe and apply to such officers as shall have been appointed by the advice and consent of the Senate to the offices therein named, and such as are eligible to the office of President under the Constitution, and not under impeachment by the House of Representatives of the United States at the time the powers and duties of the office shall devolve upon them...
Page 101 - Supreme law of the Land. This constitution, and the laws of the United States which shall be made in pursuance thereof ; and all treaties made, or which shall be made, under the authority of the United States, shall be the supreme law of the land...
Page 93 - That in case of removal, death, resignation, or inability of both the President and Vice-President of the United States, the Secretary of State, or if there be none, or in case of his removal, death, resignation, or inability, then the Secretary of the Treasury, or if there be none, or in case of his removal, death, resignation, or inability...
Page 103 - George Washington, President, and Deputy from VIRGINIA. NEW HAMPSHIRE — John Langdon, Nicholas Oilman. MASSACHUSETTS — Nathaniel Gorham, Rufus King. CONNECTICUT — William Samuel Johnson, Roger Sherman. NEW YORK — Alexander Hamilton. NEW JERSEY — William Livingston, David Brearly, William Patterson, Jonathan Dayton.
Page 103 - Jonathan Dayton. PENNSYLVANIA — Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Mifflin, Robert Morris, George Clymer, Thomas Fitzsimons, Jared Ingersoll, James Wilson, Gouverneur Morris. DELAWARE — George Read, Gunning Bedford, Jr., John Dickinson, Richard Bassett, Jacob Broom. MARYLAND — James McHenry, Daniel of St. Thomas Jenifer, Daniel Carroll. VIRGINIA — John Blair, James Madison, Jr. NORTH CAROLINA — William Blount, Richard Dobbs Spaight, Hugh Williamson. SOUTH CAROLINA — John Rutledge, Charles Cotesworth...
Page 103 - DANIEL [OF ST. THOMAS] JENIFER DANIEL CARROLL VIRGINIA JOHN BLAIR JAMES MADISON, JR. NORTH CAROLINA WILLIAM BLOUNT RICHARD DOBBS SPAIGHT HUGH WILLIAMSON SOUTH CAROLINA JOHN RUTLEDGE CHARLES C.
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