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Title: American bastile. A history of the illegal arrests and imprisonment of American citizens during the late civil war
Year: 1870 (1870s)
Authors: Marshall, John A. (from old catalog)
Subjects: Martial law -- United States. (from old catalog) United States -- History Civil war, 1861-1865 Prisoners and prisons. (from old catalog)
Publisher: Philadelphia, T. W. Hartley
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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h he himself has declared to begranted to thcni, or which by the twenty-five barons, or by the xlvii xlviii COVENANT OF SECURITY. greater part of them, shall be judged proper to be granted, areto be given according to the tenor of the said charter. And ifthese things shall be done, or if our lord the king, on his part,shall agree to do them within tl^e term limited, then the cityand tower of London shall, at tiie same term, be deiivered up toour lord the king; saving always to the aforesaid city it^s liber-ties and free customs, as it is before written. And if these things,shall not be done, and if our lord the king shall not agree to dothem within the period aforesaid, the barons shall hold the afore-said city, and the lord archbishop the tower of London, untilthe aforesaid deed shall be completed. And in the meanwhile,all of both parts shall recover the castles, lands, and townswhich have been taken in the beginning of the war that hasarisen between our lord the king and the barons.
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INDEPENDENCE HALL, PHILADELPHIA. CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. We the People of the United States, in order to form a MORE PERFECT UnION, ESTABLISH JuSTICE, INSURE DOMESTIC Tranquillity, provide for the common defence, promoteTHE general Welfare, and secure the Blessings op Lib-erty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain andestablish this Constitution for the United States oeAmerica. ARTICLE I. Section 1.All legislative Powers hei-ein granted shall be vested in a Con-gress of the United States, which shall consist of a Senate andHouse of Representatives. Section 2. The House of Representatives shall be composed of Memberschosen every second Year by the People of the several States,and the Electors in each State shall have the Qualifications re-quisite for Electors of the most numerous Branch of the Stateliegislature. ^No Person shall be a Representative who shall not have at-tained to the Age of twenty-five Years, and been seven Years nCitizen of the United States,

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