Senator from Maine. Hearings Before a Subcommittee ... Pursuant to S. Res. 278 and 296 ... Jan. 4 - 8, 1927 |
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Page 9 - The Government then of the United States can claim no powers which are not granted to it by the Constitution; and the powers actually granted must be such as are expressly given, or given by necessary implication.
Page 97 - No person shall be a representative who shall not have attained the age of twenty-five years, and been seven years a citizen of the United States, and who shall not, when elected, be an inhabitant of the state in which he shall be chosen.
Page 85 - Either House, during its session, may punish, by imprisonment, any person not a member, who shall have been guilty of disrespect to the House, by disorderly or contemptuous behavior in its presence; but such...
Page 5 - So far the equality ought to be no less acceptable to the large than to the small States ; since they are not less solicitous to guard, by every possible expedient, against an improper consolidation of the States into one simple republic.
Page 490 - Constitution, which provides that each House shall be the judge of the qualifications of its own Members.
Page 450 - And I make this solemn declaration conscientiously believing it to be true, and knowing that it is of the same force and effect as if made under oath, and by virtue of the Canada Evidence Act.
Page 295 - ... the receipt whereof is hereby acknowledged, and in order to secure the payment of the principal and interest of the bonds...
Page 54 - It may not by its rules ignore constitutional restraints or violate fundamental rights, and there should be a reasonable relation between the mode or method of proceeding established by the rule and the result which is sought to be attained. But within these limitations all matters...
Page 33 - The truth is, that the exercise of the powers given over their own members, was of such a delicate nature, that a constitutional provision became necessary to assert or communicate it. Constituted as that body is, of the delegates of confederated States, some such provision was necessary to guard against their mutual jealousy, since every proceeding against a representative would indirectly affect the honor or interests of the State which sent him.
Page 113 - Washington, DC The subcommittee met, pursuant to adjournment, at 10 o'clock am, in the committee room, Capitol, Hon.