History of the United StatesMacmillan, 1921 - 663 pages |
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... Land and the Westward Movement Industrial and Commercial Development III . SOCIAL AND POLITICAL PROGRESS The Leadership of the Churches Schools and Colleges The Colonial Press The Evolution in Political Institutions IV . THE DEVELOPMENT ...
... Land and the Westward Movement Industrial and Commercial Development III . SOCIAL AND POLITICAL PROGRESS The Leadership of the Churches Schools and Colleges The Colonial Press The Evolution in Political Institutions IV . THE DEVELOPMENT ...
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... land immediately upon the seaboard already taken up . For this reason most of them became frontier people settling the interior and upland regions . There they cleared the land , laid out their small farms , and worked as " sturdy ...
... land immediately upon the seaboard already taken up . For this reason most of them became frontier people settling the interior and upland regions . There they cleared the land , laid out their small farms , and worked as " sturdy ...
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... land without labor was worth no more than land in the moon . Hence the gates of the proprietary colonies were flung wide open . Every inducement was offered to immigrants in the form of cheap land , and special efforts were made to ...
... land without labor was worth no more than land in the moon . Hence the gates of the proprietary colonies were flung wide open . Every inducement was offered to immigrants in the form of cheap land , and special efforts were made to ...
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... land of their own or settle as free mechanics in the towns . For many a bondman the gamble proved to be a losing venture because he found himself unable to rise out of the state of poverty and dependence into Servitude . — which his ...
... land of their own or settle as free mechanics in the towns . For many a bondman the gamble proved to be a losing venture because he found himself unable to rise out of the state of poverty and dependence into Servitude . — which his ...
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... LAND AND THE WESTWARD MOVEMENT The Significance of Land Tenure . The way in which land may be acquired , held , divided among heirs , and bought and sold exercises a deep influence on the life and culture of a people . The feudal and ...
... LAND AND THE WESTWARD MOVEMENT The Significance of Land Tenure . The way in which land may be acquired , held , divided among heirs , and bought and sold exercises a deep influence on the life and culture of a people . The feudal and ...
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Page 635 - Section 2. The Congress and the several States shall have concurrent power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation. Section 3. This article shall be inoperative unless It shall have been ratified as an amendment to the Constitution by the legislatures of the several States, as provided in the Constitution, within seven years from the date of the submission hereof to the States by the Congress.
Page 629 - The Congress shall have power to dispose of and make all needful 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 government, and shall protect each of them against invasion, and on application of the legislature, or of the...
Page 625 - Duties in another. 7 No Money shall be drawn from the Treasury, but in Consequence of Appropriations made by Law; and a regular Statement and Account of the Receipts and Expenditures of all public Money shall be published from time to time. 8 No Title of Nobility shall be granted by the United States : And no Person holding any Office of Profit or Trust under them, shall, without the Consent of the Congress, accept of any present, Emolument, Office, or Title, of any kind whatever, from any King,...
Page 499 - It is, of course, too early to forecast the means of attaining this last result; but the policy of the Government of the United States is to seek a solution which may bring about permanent safety and peace to China, preserve Chinese territorial and administrative entity, protect all rights guaranteed to friendly powers by treaty and international law, and safeguard for the world the principle of equal and impartial trade with all parts of the Chinese Empire.
Page 186 - Still one thing more, fellow-citizens — a wise and frugal Government, which shall restrain men from injuring one another, shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned.
Page 478 - To-day the United States is practically sovereign on this continent, and its fiat is law upon the subjects to which it confines its interposition.
Page 628 - United States, shall be removed from office on impeachment for, and conviction of, treason, bribery, or other high crimes and misdemeanors. ARTICLE III SECTION 1. The judicial power of the United States shall be vested in one Supreme Court, and in such inferior courts as the Congress may from time to time ordain and establish. The judges, both of the Supreme and inferior courts, shall hold their offices during good...
Page 267 - During the thirty or forty years of their independence they have done absolutely nothing for the Sciences, for the Arts, for Literature, or even for the statesman-like studies of Politics or Political Economy. — [E. /?. i82o.} WHAT HAS AMERICA DONE? — In the four quarters of the globe, who reads an American book...
Page 630 - All debts contracted, and engagements entered into, before the adoption of this Constitution, shall be as valid against the United States under this Constitution, as under the confederation. 2. -This Constitution, and the laws of the United States which shall be made in pursuance thereof; and all treaties made, or which shall be made, under the authority...
Page 623 - Each House shall keep a Journal of its Proceedings, and from time to time publish the same, excepting such Parts as may in their Judgment require Secrecy ; and the Yeas and Nays of the Members of either House on any question shall, at the Desire of one fifth of those Present, be entered on the Journal.