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A Dissertation on the Nature and Extent of the Jurisdiction of the Courts of the United States
A Dissertation on the Nature and Extent of the Jurisdiction of the Courts of the United States Author:Peter Stephen Du Ponceau Subtitle: Being a Valedictory Address Delivered to the Students of the Law Academy of Philadelphia ... on the 22d April, 1824 General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1824 Original Publisher: A. Small Subjects: Courts Jurisdiction Law Law / General Law / Civil Procedure Law / Courts Law / Government /... more » Federal Law / Legal Education Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: APPENDIX. CONSTITUTION s or The UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. The Constitution framed for the United States of America, by a Convention of Deputies from the States of New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Connecticut, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Georgia, at a Session begun May 25, and ended September 17, 1787. WE, the people of the United States, in order to form a. more perfect union, establish justice, insure domestic tranquillity, provide for the common defence, promote the general welfare, and secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America. ARTICLE I. SECTION I. All legislative powers herein granted, shall be vested in a Congress of the United States, which shall consist of a Senate and House of Representatives. Cc SECTION. II. 1. The house of representatives shall be composed of members chosen every second year, by the people of the several States : and the electors in each State, shall have the qualifications requisite for electors of the most numerous branch of the State legislature. 2. No person shall be a representative, who shall not have attained to the age of twenty, five years, and been seven years a citizen of the United States; and wh...« less