American Government and Politics ...Macmillan, 1910 - 772 pages |
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... determined to conquer by main strength a free place in the world's market . American merchants were as ingenious as those who made England the nation of shopkeepers , and they could ill brook the restraints which condemned them to buy ...
... determined to conquer by main strength a free place in the world's market . American merchants were as ingenious as those who made England the nation of shopkeepers , and they could ill brook the restraints which condemned them to buy ...
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... determine its procedure under certain limitations , were taken almost verbatim from state constitu- tions . The powers which the Convention of 1787 vested in 1 . 1 Compare , for instance , the following chapter with the account of the ...
... determine its procedure under certain limitations , were taken almost verbatim from state constitu- tions . The powers which the Convention of 1787 vested in 1 . 1 Compare , for instance , the following chapter with the account of the ...
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... determined the selection himself . In the proprietary colonies , the proprietor or his representative selected the councillors . In addition to the usual legislative powers , that is , the right to discuss and vote on laws , the council ...
... determined the selection himself . In the proprietary colonies , the proprietor or his representative selected the councillors . In addition to the usual legislative powers , that is , the right to discuss and vote on laws , the council ...
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... determine upon wise and proper measures to be recommended for the recovery and establishment of their just rights ... determined , however , and North Carolina instructed her representatives to " take such measures as they may deem ...
... determine upon wise and proper measures to be recommended for the recovery and establishment of their just rights ... determined , however , and North Carolina instructed her representatives to " take such measures as they may deem ...
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... determining all questions , each colony should have one vote , gave rise to a spirited discussion . Dr. Franklin urged that if the smaller colonies gave equal money and men they should have equal votes , and advocated that votes should ...
... determining all questions , each colony should have one vote , gave rise to a spirited discussion . Dr. Franklin urged that if the smaller colonies gave equal money and men they should have equal votes , and advocated that votes should ...
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Page 720 - A landed interest, a manufacturing interest, a mercantile interest, a moneyed interest, with many lesser interests, grow up of necessity in civilized nations, and divide them into different classes actuated by different sentiments and views.
Page 49 - The diversity in the faculties of men, from which the rights of property originate, is not less an insuperable obstacle to a uniformity, of interests. The protection of these faculties is the first object of government.
Page 339 - International law is part of our law, and must be ascertained and administered by the courts of justice of appropriate jurisdiction, as often as questions of right depending upon it are duly presented for their determination.
Page 161 - The inhabitants of the ceded territory shall be incorporated in the Union of the United States and admitted as soon as possible according to the principles of the federal Constitution to the enjoyment of all the rights, advantages and immunities of citizens of the United States, and in the mean time they shall be maintained and protected in the free enjoyment of their liberty, property and the Religion which they profess.
Page 308 - If there should happen to be an irreconcilable variance between the two, that which has the superior obligation and validity ought, of course, to be preferred; in other words, the constitution ought to be preferred to the statute, the intention of the people to the intention of their agents.
Page 313 - ... the candid citizen must confess that if the policy of the Government, upon vital questions affecting the whole people, is to be irrevocably fixed by decisions of the Supreme Court, the instant they are made in ordinary litigation between parties in personal actions, the people will have ceased to be their own rulers, having to that extent practically resigned their government into the hands of that eminent tribunal.
Page 719 - But the most common and durable source of factions has been the various and unequal distribution of property. Those who hold and those who are without property have ever formed distinct interests in society.
Page 331 - It is our true policy to steer clear of permanent alliances with any portion of the foreign world...
Page 61 - Resolved by the senate and house of representatives of the United States of America in congress assembled (two-thirds of both houses concurring,) That the following article be proposed to the legislatures of the several states as an amendment to the constitution of the United States...
Page 724 - ... multiplied by the number of his shares of stock shall equal, or to distribute them on the same principle among as many candidates as he shall think fit; and such directors or managers shall not be elected in any other manner.