Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www. million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book:26. Can a state issue treasury notes to circulate as money? 27. Can a state form a league with another state or states? 28. What clause in the Constitution forbids it? 29. Can the legislature pass a law declaring a man guiltj of a crime, and inflict punishment upon him? 30. Why not? 31. Suppose a man has contracted a debt, can the legislature of a state release him from the legal obligation to pay it? 32. Why not? 33. Do not the states pass insolvent laws? 34. What debts do they affect? 35. Could the state of New York enter into an agreement with the British gorernment respecting flour shipped from New York? 36. Why not? 87. When can a. state raise troops and engage in war? CHAPTER XVT. THE EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT. ELECTION OF THE PRESIDENT. 1. What is the duty of the executive department? To execute the laws. 2. Whereis the executive power vested? " The executive power shall be vested in a President of the United States of America. He shall hold oflice during the term of four years." Art. II. § 1.1. 3. How are the President and Vice-President chosen? " Each state shall appoint, in such manner as the legislature thereof may direct, a number of electors equal to the whole number of senators and representatives to which each state may be entitled in Congress; but no senator or representative, or person holding an office of trust or profit under the United States, shall be appointed an elector." Art. II. § 1. 2. 4. In what manner do the electors proceed to make theelection1? "The electors shall meet in their respective states, and vote by ballot for President and Vice-President, one of whom, at least, shall not be an inhabitant of the same state with themselves; they shall name in their ball.
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