The North American Review, Volume 180, Part 1University of Northern Iowa, 1905 |
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... minds of at least the older of our readers , it is worth while to mention the main point . Samuel J. Tilden had received , for President , a decided majority of the popular vote . Electoral votes of unquestioned legality , to a number ...
... minds of at least the older of our readers , it is worth while to mention the main point . Samuel J. Tilden had received , for President , a decided majority of the popular vote . Electoral votes of unquestioned legality , to a number ...
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... minds . In the general average there is about one electoral vote for every forty thousand voters . But here was a case in which 35 electoral votes and the Presidency itself were determined by six hundred voters . This ought not to be ...
... minds . In the general average there is about one electoral vote for every forty thousand voters . But here was a case in which 35 electoral votes and the Presidency itself were determined by six hundred voters . This ought not to be ...
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... mind , as the opportunity it gives him for increasing his profits ; and it must be confessed that , when workmen raise the question of the closed shop , what they have usually in view is the means it offers them to increase wages . The ...
... mind , as the opportunity it gives him for increasing his profits ; and it must be confessed that , when workmen raise the question of the closed shop , what they have usually in view is the means it offers them to increase wages . The ...
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... mind that both employers and workmen are rapidly getting into over the controversy . Should there be even an irreconcilable difference as to prin- ciple , what is to be done ? Because two persons who must get along together differ in ...
... mind that both employers and workmen are rapidly getting into over the controversy . Should there be even an irreconcilable difference as to prin- ciple , what is to be done ? Because two persons who must get along together differ in ...
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... mind distraught , Aligi curses the woman he should bless . And as Mila is removed amid the howls of the crowd towards the flaming pile that awaits her , in which witches and sorcerers are condemned to perish , Ornella alone , who knows ...
... mind distraught , Aligi curses the woman he should bless . And as Mila is removed amid the howls of the crowd towards the flaming pile that awaits her , in which witches and sorcerers are condemned to perish , Ornella alone , who knows ...
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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.