The Constitution of the State of California Adopted in 1879: With References to Similar Provisions in the Constitutions of Other States, and to the Decisions of the Courts of the United States, the Supreme Court of California, and the Supreme Courts of Such Other States as Have Constitutional Provisions Similar to Those of California. To which is Prefixed the Constitution of the United States and a Parallel Arangement of the Constitutions of 1863 and 1879Bancroft-Whitney Company, 1879 - 431 pages |
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Page 56 - Every citizen may freely speak, write, and publish his sentiments on all subjects, being responsible for the abuse of that right ; and no law shall be passed to restrain or abridge the liberty of speech or of the press.
Page 248 - Every act shall embrace but one subject, and matters properly connected therewith ; which subject shall be expressed In the title. But if any subject shall be embraced in an act, which shall not be expressed In the title, such act shall be void only as to so much thereof as shall not be expressed in the title.
Page 18 - States ; 3. To regulate commerce with foreign nations, and among the several States, and with the Indian tribes ; 4. To establish an uniform rule of naturalization, and uniform laws on the subject of bankruptcies throughout the United States ; 5. To coin money, regulate the value thereof, and of foreign coin, and fix the standard of weights and measures ; 6. To provide for the punishment of counterfeiting the securities and current coin of the United States ; 7.
Page 16 - No Senator or Representative shall, during the Time for which he was elected, be appointed to any civil Office under the Authority of the United States, which shall have been created, or the Emoluments whereof shall have been encreased during such time; and no Person holding any Office under the United States, shall be a Member of either House during his Continuance in Office > SECTION.
Page 26 - Rules and Regulations respecting the Territory or other Property belonging to the United States ; and nothing in this Constitution shall be so construed as to Prejudice any Claims of the United States, or of any particular State. SECTION 4. The United States shall guarantee to every State in this Union a Republican Form of...
Page 58 - No person shall be held to answer for a capital or otherwise infamous crime (except in cases of impeachment, and in cases of militia when in actual service ; and the land and naval forces in time of war, or which this State may keep •with the consent of Congress in time of peace...
Page 107 - Upon conviction for treason, he shall have power to suspend the execution of the sentence, until the case shall be reported to the Legislature at its next meeting, when the Legislature shall either pardon or commute the sentence, direct the execution of the sentence, or grant a further reprieve.
Page 144 - ... no such law shall take effect, until at a general election it shall have been submitted to the people, and have received a majority of all the votes cast for and against it at such election...
Page 97 - Court shall have original jurisdiction in all cases in equity, and in all cases at law which involve the title or possession of real property, or the legality of any tax, impost, assessment, toll, or municipal fme, and in all other cases in which the demand, exclusive of interest or the value of the property in controversy, amounts to three hundred dollars, and in all criminal cases amounting to felony, and cases of misdemeanor not otherwise provided for...
Page 145 - ... raised by authority of such law shall be applied only to the specific object therein stated, or to the payment .of the debt thereby created...