American Government and Politics ...Macmillan, 1910 - 772 pages |
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... FOREIGN AFFAIRS • · XVII . NATIONAL DEFENCE XVIII . TAXATION AND FINANCE • XIX . THE REGULATION OF COMMERCE XX . NATURAL RESOURCES XXI . THE GOVERNMENT OF TERRITORIES · 145 166 • • 187 • 215 · 231 253 . 267 • 294 • 315- • 342 · 358 ...
... FOREIGN AFFAIRS • · XVII . NATIONAL DEFENCE XVIII . TAXATION AND FINANCE • XIX . THE REGULATION OF COMMERCE XX . NATURAL RESOURCES XXI . THE GOVERNMENT OF TERRITORIES · 145 166 • • 187 • 215 · 231 253 . 267 • 294 • 315- • 342 · 358 ...
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... foreign powers , and waged war in the field . On the other hand , when independence was de- clared , the Revolutionists had to provide some form of united government for the realization of their common purposes , and at the same time to ...
... foreign powers , and waged war in the field . On the other hand , when independence was de- clared , the Revolutionists had to provide some form of united government for the realization of their common purposes , and at the same time to ...
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... foreign powers . ' As early as July 21 , 1775 , the Congress resolved itself into a committee of the whole to take into consideration the state of America , and Dr. Franklin submitted a draft of a plan for confederation . Under the ...
... foreign powers . ' As early as July 21 , 1775 , the Congress resolved itself into a committee of the whole to take into consideration the state of America , and Dr. Franklin submitted a draft of a plan for confederation . Under the ...
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... foreign debt multiplied about twenty - five fold . In short , a large group of public creditors were failing to receive the interest due them on government securities . It would have been exercising almost superhuman faculties for them ...
... foreign debt multiplied about twenty - five fold . In short , a large group of public creditors were failing to receive the interest due them on government securities . It would have been exercising almost superhuman faculties for them ...
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... foreign debt alone . Had it not been for the loans which the bankers of Holland were willing to make to the struggling republic , the confederacy would surely have been confronted by bankruptcy and total ruin before relief came . 2. The ...
... foreign debt alone . Had it not been for the loans which the bankers of Holland were willing to make to the struggling republic , the confederacy would surely have been confronted by bankruptcy and total ruin before relief came . 2. The ...
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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.