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Page 47 - If, after such reconsideration, two-thirds of all the Members of such House shall agree to pass the bill, it shall be sent, together with the objections, to the other House by which it shall...
Page 51 - Every freeman of the age of twenty-one years, having resided in the State two years next before the election, and within that time paid a State or county tax which shall have been assessed at least six months before the election' ; in Delaware and Virginia 'as exercised by law at present...
Page 22 - Lord ! why I did'nt know you wanted it." " I tell you, I wish to have it back." " Oh, pooh ! you can't want it much, now — do you?" " I tell you, sir, I desire to have the die back immediately.
Page 46 - The legislative power is vested in a Congress, consisting of a Senate and House of Representatives.
Page 22 - I will give the minutes of a conversation which I once set down after one of their visits, as a specimen of their tone and manner of speaking and thinking. My visitor was a milkman. 'Well now, so you be from the old country? Ay — you'll see sights here, I guess.' 'I hope I shall see many.' "That's a fact. I expect your little place of an island don't grow such dreadful fine corn as you sees here?' 'It grows no corn at all, sir.' 'Possible! no wonder, then, that we reads such awful stories in the...
Page 47 - The person having the greatest number of votes for president, shall be the president, if such number be a majority of the whole number of electors appointed; and if no person...
Page 13 - ... society formed by the class of people of whom I have spoken above, and whom I should designate as the gentry of this country ; using that term in the best sense in which it was once used in England. Among this large but widely scattered portion of the community, should the European traveller's good fortune lead him, he will find hospitality without ostentation, purity of morals, independent of the dread of opinion, intellectual cultivation, unmixed with the desire of display, great simplicity...
Page 49 - Provided, nevertheless, that no person shall be capable of being elected as a senator, who is not seized in his own right of a freehold within this Commonwealth, of the value of three hundred pounds at least, or possessed of personal estate to the value of six hundred pounds at least, or of both to the amount of the same sum, and who has not been an inhabitant of this Commonwealth, for the space of five years immediately preceding his election, and, at the time of his election, he shall be an inhabitant...
Page 56 - State; shall also have resided within the limits of the county in which he shall be chosen, one year next preceding his election, unless he shall have been absent on the public business of the United States or of this State, and shall have paid a State or county tax.