A Treatise on the American Law of ElectionsR.B. Ogden, 1875 - 487 páginas |
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Página 44 - citizen of the United States, and to renounce forever all allegiance and fidelity to any foreign power, potentate, state or sovereignty whatever, and particularly by name, the prince, potentate, state or sovereignty whereof such alien may at the time be a citizen or subject.
Página 405 - any election in any State, Territory, district, county, city, parish, township, school district, municipality, or other territorial, subdivision, shall forfeit the sum of five hundred dollars to the person aggrieved thereby, to be recovered by an action on the case, with costs, and such allowance for counsel fees as the court may deem just.
Página 419 - to one hundred and forty-nine, inclusive, when the offices of President and Vice-President both become vacant, the electors of President and VicePresident shall be appointed, in each State, on the Tuesday next after the first Monday in November, in every fourth year succeeding every election of a President and Vice-President.
Página 421 - Sec. 151. The only evidence of a refusal to accept, or of a resignation of the office of President or Vice-President, shall be an instrument in writing, declaring the same, and subscribed by the person refusing to accept or resigning, as the case may be, and delivered into the office of the Secretary of State.
Página 146 - the legislature of each State which shall be chosen next preceding the expiration of the time for which any Senator was elected to represent said State in Congress shall, on the second Tuesday after the meeting and organization thereof, proceed to elect a Senator in Congress in place of such Senator so going out of office.
Página 409 - or who commits any offense against the laws of the United States; but no person shall be arrested without process for any offense not committed in the presence of the marshal or his general or special deputies, or either of them, or of the supervisors of election, or either of them, and, for the
Página 420 - Sec. 136. It shall be the duty of the executive of each State to cause three lists of the names of the electors of such State to be made and certified, and to be delivered to the electors on or before the day on which they are required, by the preceding section, to meet. Sec. 137. The
Página 412 - Sec. 23. In each State entitled under this apportionment to more than one representative, the number to which such State may be entitled in the Forty-third and each subsequent Congress shall be elected by districts composed of contiguous territory, and containing as nearly as practicable an equal number of inhabitants, and equal in number to the number of Representatives to which
Página 404 - Sec. 2003. No officer of the Army or Navy of the United States shall prescribe or fix, or attempt to prescribe or fix, by proclamation, order, or otherwise, the qualifications of voters in any State, or in any manner interfere with the freedom of any election in any
Página 420 - the certificates. Two. They shall forthwith forward by the post-office to the President of the Senate, at the seat of Government, one other of the certificates. Three. They shall forthwith cause the other of the certificates to be delivered to the judge of that district in which the electors shall assemble.