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... Movement for a Constitutional Convention The Work of the Convention 176 177 182 The Ratification of the Constitution XVIII SETTING THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT IN MOTION Breathing Life into the Constitution Revenues and Expenditures ...
... Movement for a Constitutional Convention The Work of the Convention 176 177 182 The Ratification of the Constitution XVIII SETTING THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT IN MOTION Breathing Life into the Constitution Revenues and Expenditures ...
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... Movement in the Fifties Every - Day Life XXXIII MOVING TOWARD CIVIL WAR Secession : Efforts at Compromise The Call to Arms Resources and the Outlook PAGE 322 323 324 332 • 336 · 339 342 348 351 352 356 358 359 361 363 367 370 375 379 ...
... Movement in the Fifties Every - Day Life XXXIII MOVING TOWARD CIVIL WAR Secession : Efforts at Compromise The Call to Arms Resources and the Outlook PAGE 322 323 324 332 • 336 · 339 342 348 351 352 356 358 359 361 363 367 370 375 379 ...
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... MOVEMENT Progress in Educational Matters Social Betterment 549 The Rule of the People 551 Progress in Material Things 554 The Taft Administration ( 1909-1913 ) 558 The Election of 1912 561 Progressive Legislation 565 568 XLVI THE WORLD ...
... MOVEMENT Progress in Educational Matters Social Betterment 549 The Rule of the People 551 Progress in Material Things 554 The Taft Administration ( 1909-1913 ) 558 The Election of 1912 561 Progressive Legislation 565 568 XLVI THE WORLD ...
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... movement or as a distinct form of religious belief had not yet appeared . With the exception of a few Jews and skeptics the entire population was Catholic . So in the fifteenth century Europe was Catholic to the core , and the strongest ...
... movement or as a distinct form of religious belief had not yet appeared . With the exception of a few Jews and skeptics the entire population was Catholic . So in the fifteenth century Europe was Catholic to the core , and the strongest ...
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... movement of goods . Worse than all this , there was lacking that indispensable handmaid of commerce , the post - office ; there was in all Europe as yet no regularly organized postal system . THE RENAISSANCE Means of cation Communi ...
... movement of goods . Worse than all this , there was lacking that indispensable handmaid of commerce , the post - office ; there was in all Europe as yet no regularly organized postal system . THE RENAISSANCE Means of cation Communi ...
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Page 396 - My paramount object in this struggle is to save the Union, and is not either to save or to destroy slavery. If I could save the Union without freeing any slave, I would do it; and if I could save it by freeing all the slaves, I would do it; and if I could do it by freeing some and leaving others alone, I would also do that.
Page 610 - State having jurisdiction of the crime. 3 No person held to service or labor in one State, under the laws thereof, escaping into another, shall, in consequence of any law or regulation therein, be discharged from such service or labor, but shall be delivered up on claim of the party to whom such service or labor may be due.1 SECTION 3.
Page 426 - That all persons born in the United States and not subject to any foreign power, excluding Indians not taxed, are hereby declared to be citizens of the United States...
Page 296 - I am in earnest. I will not equivocate — I will not excuse — I will not retreat a single inch. AND I WILL BE HEARD.
Page 543 - Chronic wrongdoing, or an impotence which results in a general loosening of the ties of civilized society, may in America, as elsewhere, ultimately require intervention by some civilized nation, and in the Western Hemisphere the adherence of the United States to the Monroe Doctrine may force the United States, however reluctantly, in flagrant cases of such wrongdoing or impotence, to the exercise of an international police power.
Page 375 - In your hands, my dissatisfied fellow-countrymen, and not in mine, is the momentous issue of civil war. The government will not assail you. You can have no conflict without being yourselves the aggressors. You have no oath registered in heaven to destroy the government, while I shall have the most solemn one to "preserve, protect, and defend it.
Page 396 - ... that on the first day of january in the year of our lord one thousand eight hundred and sixtythree all persons held as slaves within any state or designated part of a state the people whereof shall then be in rebellion against the united states shall be then thenceforward and forever free...
Page 134 - MARYLAND Samuel Chase Wm. Paca Thos. Stone Charles Carroll of Carrollton VIRGINIA George Wythe Richard Henry Lee Th. Jefferson Benja. Harrison Ths.
Page 410 - TAXES upon every article which enters into the mouth, or covers the back, or is placed under the foot — taxes upon everything which it is pleasant to see, hear, feel, smell, or taste — taxes upon warmth, light, and locomotion — taxes on everything on earth, and the waters under the earth...
Page 276 - The Congress, the Executive, and the Court must each for itself be guided by its own opinion of the Constitution. Each public officer who takes an oath to support the Constitution swears that he will support it as he understands it, and not as it is understood by others.