The North American Review, Volume 180, Part 1University of Northern Iowa, 1905 |
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... fact : that the Government does not give the book to the public , it gives it to the publishers . Q. How do you make that out ? A. It is very simple : the publisher goes on publishing — there is no law against it - and he takes all the ...
... fact : that the Government does not give the book to the public , it gives it to the publishers . Q. How do you make that out ? A. It is very simple : the publisher goes on publishing — there is no law against it - and he takes all the ...
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from that in which they elect their State officers . The fact that the two great parties met in convention last June , and there nomi- nated candidates for the Presidency , can therefore give these candidates no standing whatever before ...
from that in which they elect their State officers . The fact that the two great parties met in convention last June , and there nomi- nated candidates for the Presidency , can therefore give these candidates no standing whatever before ...
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... fact that the Constitution itself makes provision for amendments , there can be no rational ground for this sentiment . It is the spirit , not the letter , of our Constitution which has made it so successful in solving the great- est ...
... fact that the Constitution itself makes provision for amendments , there can be no rational ground for this sentiment . It is the spirit , not the letter , of our Constitution which has made it so successful in solving the great- est ...
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... fact is that , in every Continental state in which such an attempt was made , it ended at last in failure and disappointment . By the sixteenth century , nearly every effort in the direction of representative government upon the ...
... fact is that , in every Continental state in which such an attempt was made , it ended at last in failure and disappointment . By the sixteenth century , nearly every effort in the direction of representative government upon the ...
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... fact that the unit of political organization known as the " township " survived , and from its loins was drawn the vital principle of popular govern- ment , through whose agency was built up , alongside of the royal bureaucracy , a ...
... fact that the unit of political organization known as the " township " survived , and from its loins was drawn the vital principle of popular govern- ment , through whose agency was built up , alongside of the royal bureaucracy , a ...
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Page 336 - It would not be contended that it extends so far as to authorize what the Constitution forbids, or a change in the character of the government or in that of one of the States, or a cession of any portion of the territory of the latter, without its consent.
Page 189 - Third, that the President of the United States be, and he hereby is, directed and empowered to use the entire land and naval forces of the United States, and to call into the actual service of the United States the militia of the several States to such extent as may be necessary to carry these resolutions into effect.
Page 186 - The United States will occupy and hold the city, bay, and harbor of Manila pending the conclusion of a treaty of peace which shall determine the control, disposition, and government of the Philippines.
Page 379 - Let no man dream but that I love thee still, Perchance, and so thou purify thy soul, And so thou lean on our fair father Christ, Hereafter in that world where all are pure We two may meet before high God, and thou Wilt spring to me, and claim me thine, and know I am thine husband — not a smaller soul, Nor Lancelot, nor another. Leave me that, I charge thee, my last hope. Now must I hence. Thro...
Page 265 - It occurred to me at once that Harris had been as much afraid of me as I had been of him. This was a view of the question I had never taken before ; but it was one I never forgot afterwards. From that event to the close of the war, I never experienced trepidation upon confronting an enemy, though I always felt more or less anxiety. I never forgot that he had as much reason to fear my forces as I had his. The lesson was valuable.
Page 336 - The treaty power, as expressed in the constitution, is in terms unlimited except by those restraints which are found in that instrument against the action of the government or of its departments, and those arising from the nature of the government itself and of that of the states.
Page 180 - Can it be doubted that Congress can, by law, protect the act of voting, the place where it is done, and the man who votes from personal violence or intimidation, and the election itself from corruption or fraud?
Page 158 - We would interfere with them only in the last resort, and then only if it became evident that their inability or unwillingness to do justice at home and abroad had violated the rights of the United States or had invited foreign aggression to the detriment of the entire body of American nations.
Page 182 - If this government is anything more than a mere aggregation of delegated agents of other States and governments, each of which is superior to the General Government, it must have the power to protect the elections on which its existence depends from violence and corruption. If it has not this power, it is left helpless before the two great natural and historical enemies of all republics, open violence and insidious corruption.
Page 189 - In the name of humanity, in the name of civilization, in behalf of endangered American interests which give us the right and the duty to speak and to act, the war in Cuba must stop.