Identifier: powersofamerican01miya (find matches)
Title: Powers of the American people, Congress, President, and courts, according to evolution of constitutional construction
Year: 1906 (1900s)
Authors: Miyakawa, Masuji
Subjects: Constitutional law
Publisher: Washington, D.C., The Wilkens-Sheiry co.
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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-sential to separate and independent existence, and thatwithout States in the Union there could be no such polit-ical body as the United States. Not only, therefore, canthere be no loss of separate and independent autonomy tothe States through their union under the Constitution, butit may with reason be said that the preservation of theStates and the maintenance of their governments are asmuch within the design and care of the Constitution asthe preservation of the Union and the maintenance ofthe national government. The Constitution in all itsprovisions looks to an indestructible Union composed ofindestructible States. Sec. 5. We are safe in asserting that the principles un-derlying the distribution of public functions between dif-ferent bodies was not invented in the United States. Thepartition of the powers of government existed in Eng-land at the time of the American Revolution. Whilethis is true, it is no less true that the proposition of the ^ Texas v. White, 7 Wall. 7, 700-726.
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THE PEOPLE. 13 American Constitution to separate, yet preserve coordi-nation and interdependence of the several branches ofgovernment, was unique and apparently different fromthe government of Great Britain. The legal, practicaland fundamental difference has been worked out duringthe time that the American Constitution has been inforce. Hence, we will, in the Articles that follow, goback to the olden times and reason out the idea that at thetime of the framing of the American Constitution, theSenators represent the States; the Members of the Houseof Representatives, on the other hand, represent localdistricts in the United States, the idea being to giveto the people of every locality equal representation ac-cording to numbers, distributing the burdens of thegovernment in accordance with the voice of its councils.The classification of the American power of govern-ment, with its peculiar delicacies, has been well estab-lished. The following have been pointed out: The leg-islative power,

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