University of Michigan Publications: History and political science, Volume 4University of Michigan Press, 1920 |
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Page 204 - The President is the constitutional representative of the United States with regard to foreign nations. He manages our concerns with foreign nations and must necessarily be most competent to determine when, how, and upon what subjects negotiations may be urged with the greatest prospect of success. For his conduct he is responsible to the Constitution.
Page 128 - House or a committee thereof, be reduced into the form of a ratification with or without modifications, as may have been decided, and shall be proposed on a subsequent day, when every one shall again be free to move amendments, either by inserting or leaving out words ; in which last case the question shall be, " Shall the words stand part of the resolution...
Page 20 - Senate shall have a chair on the floor, be considered as at the head of the Senate, and his chair shall be assigned to the President of the United States.
Page 24 - Indians," but was not master of one sentence of it. Signs were made to the doorkeeper to shut down the sashes. Seven heads, as we...
Page 115 - States," proceeded to declare, as the first point, that the plenipotentiaries, " at the opening of the negotiation, will inform the French ministers that the United States expect from France, as an indispensable condition of the treaty, a stipulation to make to the citizens of the United States...
Page 26 - As I sat down, the President of the United States started up in a violent fret. "This defeats every purpose of my coming here" were the first words that he said. He then went on that he had brought his Secretary of War with him to give every necessary information ; that the Secretary knew all about the business, and yet he was delayed and could not go on with the matter. He cooled, however, by degrees.
Page 76 - November, 1794, on condition that there be added to the said Treaty an article whereby it shall be agreed to suspend the operation of so much of the 12th article...