Tag: PU
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Public Lands
Public Lands: Federal and State Powers ThereoverNo appropriation of public lands may be made for any purpose except by authority of Congress.303 However, Congress was held to have acquiesced in the long-continued practice of withdrawing land from the public domain by Executive Orders.304 In 1976 Con…
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Public Rights
The "Public Rights" DistinctionDistinction.-A major delineation of the distinction between Article I courts and Article III courts appears in Murray's Lessee v. Hoboken Land & Improvement Co.1 At issue was a summary procedure, without b…
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Public Contracts
"Contracts" Include Public Contracts and Corporate Charters.The question, which was settled very early, was whether the clause was intended to be applied solely in protection of private contracts or in the protection also of public grants, or, more broadly, in protection of public contract…
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Public Grants
Public Grants That Are Not "Contracts" (Obligation of Contracts)Not all grants by a state constitute "contracts" within the sense of Article I, § 10. In his Dartmouth College decision, Chief Justice Marshall conceded that "if the act of incorporation be a grant of polit…
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Public Money
Clause 7. Appropriations and Accounting of Public MoneyNo Money shall be drawn from the Treasury but in Consequence of Appropriations made by Law; and a regular Statement and Account of the Receipts and Expenditures of all public Money shall be published from time to time….
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Punishment
Definition of Punishment and CrimesAlthough the only crimes which Congress is expressly authorized to punish are piracies, felonies on the high seas, offenses against the law of nations, treason and counterfeiting of the securities and current coin of the United States, its power to create, define, …
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Punishment of Counterfeiting
Fiscal and Monetary Powers of Congress: Punishment of CounterfeitingIn its affirmative aspect, this clause has been given a narrow interpretation; it has been held not to cover the circulation of counterfeit coin or the possession of equipment susceptible of use for making counterfeit coin.<a name=t…