Tag: AM
-
Amendment
The Congress, whenever two thirds of both Houses shall deem it necessary, shall propose Amendments to this Constitution, or, on the Application of the Legislatures of two thirds of the several States, shall call a Convention for proposing Amendments, which in either Case, shall be valid to all Inten…
-
Amending Power
When Article V was before the Constitutional Convention, a motion to insert a provision that "no State shall without its consent be affected in its internal policy" was made and rejected.1 A further attempt to impose a substantive limitation on the amending power was made in 1861, when Con…
-
Ambassadors
Suits Affecting Ambassadors, Other Public Ministers, and ConsulsThe earliest interpretation of the grant of original jurisdiction to the Supreme Court came in the Judiciary Act of 1789, which conferred on the federal district courts jurisdiction of suits to which a consul might be a party. This legi…
-
Ambassador
Ambassadors and Other Public MinistersThe term "ambassadors and other public ministers," comprehends "all officers having diplomatic functions, whatever their title or designation." 1 It was originally assumed that such offices we…
-
Amnesty
Congress and Amnesty (Presidential Pardon)Congress cannot limit the effects of a presidential amnesty. Thus the act of July 12, 1870, making proof of loyalty necessary to recover property abandoned and sold by the government during the Civil War, notwithstanding any executive proclamation, pardon, a…