We and Our History: A Biography of the American PeopleAmerican Viewpoint Society, Incorporated, 1923 - 319 pages |
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... Washington , D. C. Author : Actual Government as Applied Under American Conditions ; Salmon P. Chase ; Epoch Maps ; Essentials in American History ; Forma- tion of the Union ; Foundations of American Foreign Policy ; The Great Explosion ...
... Washington , D. C. Author : Actual Government as Applied Under American Conditions ; Salmon P. Chase ; Epoch Maps ; Essentials in American History ; Forma- tion of the Union ; Foundations of American Foreign Policy ; The Great Explosion ...
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... Washington GEORGE F. QUIMBY Industrial Service Secretary , As- sociated Industries of Massachu- setts PHILIP SHORE Chairman Board of Education , Tampa , Fla . RUFUS DANIEL SMITH Associate Professor of Public Economy , New York ...
... Washington GEORGE F. QUIMBY Industrial Service Secretary , As- sociated Industries of Massachu- setts PHILIP SHORE Chairman Board of Education , Tampa , Fla . RUFUS DANIEL SMITH Associate Professor of Public Economy , New York ...
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... Washington , Father of His Country ... Chapter 5. - OUR GLORIOUS CONSTITUTION ( 1775-1789 ) . John Marshall , Expounder of the Constitution .. PART TWO . The Young United States ( 1789-1865 ) Chapter 6. - GETTING UNDER WAY ( 1789-1815 ) ...
... Washington , Father of His Country ... Chapter 5. - OUR GLORIOUS CONSTITUTION ( 1775-1789 ) . John Marshall , Expounder of the Constitution .. PART TWO . The Young United States ( 1789-1865 ) Chapter 6. - GETTING UNDER WAY ( 1789-1815 ) ...
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... Washington enjoy large areas of grain and fruit lands . ( 4 ) The two most important minerals , coal and iron ore , are very abundant in the eastern and north central states ; and there are deposits of coal in various places all over ...
... Washington enjoy large areas of grain and fruit lands . ( 4 ) The two most important minerals , coal and iron ore , are very abundant in the eastern and north central states ; and there are deposits of coal in various places all over ...
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... Washington'sTime Colonial Spinning Wheel An afternoon call in Colonial Days These drawings illustrate scenes familiar in THE EVERY- DAY DOMESTIC AND SOCIAL LIFE OF THE COL- ONISTS . The Puritans , because of their religion , permitted ...
... Washington'sTime Colonial Spinning Wheel An afternoon call in Colonial Days These drawings illustrate scenes familiar in THE EVERY- DAY DOMESTIC AND SOCIAL LIFE OF THE COL- ONISTS . The Puritans , because of their religion , permitted ...
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Page 306 - In the wars of the European powers, in matters relating to themselves, we have never taken any part, nor does it comport with our policy so to do.
Page 286 - State or its trade; nor shall any body of forces be kept up by any State, in time of peace, except such number only...
Page 287 - ... appointing all officers of the land forces, in the service of the United States, excepting regimental officers — appointing all the officers of the naval forces, and commissioning all officers whatever in the service of the United States — making rules for the. government and regulation of the said land and naval forces, and directing their operations. The United States in Congress assembled shall have authority to- appoint a committee, to sit in the recess of Congress, to be denominated...
Page 287 - States; regulating the trade and managing all affairs with the Indians, not members of any of the States, provided that the legislative right of any State within its own limits be not infringed or violated; establishing...
Page 93 - ... with all these blessings, what more is necessary to make us a happy and prosperous people? Still one thing more, fellow-citizens — a wise and frugal Government, which shall restrain men from injuring one another, shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned.
Page 255 - German peoples included: for the rights of nations great and small and the privilege of men everywhere to choose their way of life and of obedience. The world must be made safe for democracy. Its peace must be planted upon the tested foundations of political liberty.
Page 288 - ... to them. And that the articles thereof shall be inviolably observed by the States we respectively represent, and that the Union shall be perpetual. In witness whereof we have hereunto set our hands in Congress. Done at Philadelphia in the State of Pennsylvania the ninth day of July in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and seventy-eight, and in the third year of the independence of America.
Page 299 - The President shall, at stated times, receive for his services a compensation, which shall neither be encreased nor diminished during the period for which he shall have been elected, and he shall not receive within that period any other emolument from the United States, or any of them. Before he enter on the execution of his office he shall take the following oath or affirmation...
Page 49 - I cross'd these columns with thirteen red lines, marking the beginning of each line with the first letter of one of the virtues, on which line, and in its proper column...
Page 295 - No Senator or Representative shall, during the Time for which he was elected, be appointed to any civil Office under the Authority of the United States, which shall have been created, or the Emoluments whereof shall have been encreased during such time ; and no Person holding any Office under the United States, shall be a Member of either House during his Continuance in Office.