Semi-centennial Celebration of the Organization of the University of Michigan, June 26-30, 1887

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The University, 1888 - 318 pages
 

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Page 104 - College," increases the number of trustees to twenty-one, gives the appointment of the additional members to the executive of the state, and creates a board of overseers, to consist of twentyfive persons, of whom twenty-one are also appointed by the executive of New Hampshire, who have power to inspect and control the most important acts of the trustees.
Page 279 - I regret that it will not be possible for me to be present...
Page 96 - ... was to prohibit all suits against a State by or for citizens of other States, or aliens, without the consent of the State to be sued ; and, in our opinion, one State cannot create a controversy with another State, within the meaning of that term as used in the judicial clauses of the Constitution, by assuming the prosecution of debts owing by the other State to its citizens.
Page 74 - The regents of the university shall, at their first annual meeting, or as soon thereafter as may be, elect a president of the university, who shall be ex officio a member of their board, with the privilege of speaking but not of voting.
Page 198 - Him, in whom are hid all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge.
Page 200 - Custos gentis, abes jam nimium diu; Maturum reditum pollicitus patrum Sancto concilio redi. Lucem redde tuae, dux bone, patriae Instar veris enim vultus ubi tuus Affulsit populo, gratior it dies Et soles melius nitent.
Page 97 - Senate, having demanded the delivery of his commission, applied to the Supreme Court for a writ of mandamus to compel its delivery.
Page 93 - The second section closes an enumeration of the cases to which it is extended, with "controversies" "between a state or the citizens thereof, and foreign states, citizens, or subjects." A subsequent clause of the same section gives the supreme court original jurisdiction in all cases in which a state shall be a party.
Page 95 - The judicial power of the United States shall not be construed to extend to any suit in law or equity commenced or prosecuted against one of the United States by the citizens of another state, or by citizens or subjects of any foreign state.- -[Proposed .March 5th, 1794; ratified January 8th, 1798.] ARTICLE XII.
Page 101 - The question is, in truth, a question of supremacy; and if the right of the States to tax the means employed by the general government be conceded, the declaration that the Constitution, and the laws made in pursuance thereof, shall be the supreme law of the land, is empty and unmeaning declamation.

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