The Land of Fair Play: American Civics from a Christian PerspectiveChristian Liberty Press, 2007 - 180 pages |
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... respecting people must and will fight as did our ancestors in the Revolution . The Second Amendment to our beloved Constitution , guaranteeing the people the right to keep and bear arms , was included in our national laws to secure the ...
... respecting people must and will fight as did our ancestors in the Revolution . The Second Amendment to our beloved Constitution , guaranteeing the people the right to keep and bear arms , was included in our national laws to secure the ...
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... respect . He can aspire to any success or office . So it is with all of us , Protestant , Catholic , Jew , or any other person of faith . Most Americans have a strong religious faith , but they feel that religion is something each man ...
... respect . He can aspire to any success or office . So it is with all of us , Protestant , Catholic , Jew , or any other person of faith . Most Americans have a strong religious faith , but they feel that religion is something each man ...
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... respect for other people's rights on the part of each of us . Religious liberty , for instance , can amount to nothing unless every one respects his neighbor's right to worship God as he wills . Liberties mean equal duties , as we have ...
... respect for other people's rights on the part of each of us . Religious liberty , for instance , can amount to nothing unless every one respects his neighbor's right to worship God as he wills . Liberties mean equal duties , as we have ...
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... respect their chance when it comes . Liberty is something that you cannot have unless you are first willing to give it away . There is a special and added reason for obeying the law in a free nation which every boy and girl should ...
... respect their chance when it comes . Liberty is something that you cannot have unless you are first willing to give it away . There is a special and added reason for obeying the law in a free nation which every boy and girl should ...
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... respect abroad . ( Although he sought a stronger federal government to preserve the hard - won independence of the United States , he was a classical republican who sought to uphold the God - given rights of the people . ) He insisted ...
... respect abroad . ( Although he sought a stronger federal government to preserve the hard - won independence of the United States , he was a classical republican who sought to uphold the God - given rights of the people . ) He insisted ...
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Page 147 - ... or of such other body as Congress may by law provide, transmit within four days to the President pro tempore of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives their written declaration that the President is unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office.
Page 122 - When my eyes shall be turned to behold for the last time the sun in heaven, may I not see him shining on the broken and dishonored fragments of a once glorious Union ; on States dissevered, discordant, belligerent; on a land rent with civil feuds, or drenched, it may be, in fraternal blood!
Page 133 - Year one thousand eight hundred and eight, but a Tax or Duty may be imposed on such Importation, not exceeding ten dollars for each Person. 2 The Privilege of the Writ of Habeas Corpus shall not be suspended, unless when in Cases of Rebellion or Invasion the public Safety may require it. 3 No Bill of Attainder or ex post facto Law shall be passed. 4 No Capitation, or other direct, Tax shall be laid, unless in Proportion to the Census or Enumeration herein before directed to be taken.
Page ii - These are the times that try men's souls : The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will in this crisis, shrink from the service of his country; but he that stands it Now, deserves the love and thanks of man and woman.
Page 138 - 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 147 - President is unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office, the Vice President shall immediately assume the powers and duties of the office as Acting President. Thereafter, when the President transmits to the President pro tempore of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives his written declaration that no inability exists, he shall resume the powers and duties of his office...
Page 147 - Whenever the President transmits to the President pro tempore of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives his written declaration that he is unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office, and until he transmits to them a written declaration to the contrary, such powers and duties shall be discharged by the Vice President as Acting President.
Page 137 - SECTION 3. 1. New States may be admitted by the Congress into this Union ; but no new State shall be formed or erected within the jurisdiction of any other State ; nor any State be formed by the junction of two or more States or parts of States without the consent of the Legislatures of the States concerned, as well as of the Congress.
Page 131 - 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.
Page 147 - Section 1. In case of the removal of the President from office or of his death or resignation, the Vice President shall become President. Section 2. Whenever there is a vacancy in the office of the Vice President, the President shall nominate a Vice President who shall take office upon confirmation by a majority vote of both Houses of Congress.