The North American Review, Volume 163University of Northern Iowa, 1896 Vols. 227-230, no. 2 include: Stuff and nonsense, v. 5-6, no. 8, Jan. 1929-Aug. 1930. |
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... officer sent out by the mother country , represents the President of the state , who is nominally the Queen of the colony ; but as President he has very little power all the power is in the hands of the people and their representatives ...
... officer sent out by the mother country , represents the President of the state , who is nominally the Queen of the colony ; but as President he has very little power all the power is in the hands of the people and their representatives ...
Page 169
... officers , commissioned and non - commissioned , who had anything to do with Lebaudy , were in the sacred name of France denounced for having sold their favors . To the English newspaper reader it will appear that enter- prise of this ...
... officers , commissioned and non - commissioned , who had anything to do with Lebaudy , were in the sacred name of France denounced for having sold their favors . To the English newspaper reader it will appear that enter- prise of this ...
Page 181
... officers of the law , destroy prop- erty , burn buildings , and commit homicides , will rush naturally to the support of the candidates nominated at Chicago . They cannot be shaken off . They will find in the platform much en ...
... officers of the law , destroy prop- erty , burn buildings , and commit homicides , will rush naturally to the support of the candidates nominated at Chicago . They cannot be shaken off . They will find in the platform much en ...
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... officers are elected . This , however , is a question of too broad significance to be answered from impulse or from partial examination . There are at least two sides to it . In our high appreciation of the popular will and of the ...
... officers are elected . This , however , is a question of too broad significance to be answered from impulse or from partial examination . There are at least two sides to it . In our high appreciation of the popular will and of the ...
Page 408
... officer was , no doubt , influential in conciliating those who were reluctant to come into the Union . Whether it secured equality of power in this respect or not , it looked in that direction , and approximated that end as nearly as ...
... officer was , no doubt , influential in conciliating those who were reluctant to come into the Union . Whether it secured equality of power in this respect or not , it looked in that direction , and approximated that end as nearly as ...
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Page 260 - And let us with caution indulge the supposition that morality can be maintained without religion. Whatever may be conceded to the influence of refined education on minds of peculiar structure, reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principle.
Page 511 - ... lawful money and a legal tender in payment of all debts, public and private, within the United States, except duties on imports and interest as aforesaid.
Page 534 - That it shall be the object and duty of said experiment stations to conduct original researches or verify experiments on the physiology of plants and animals ; the diseases to which they are severally subject, with the remedies for the same ; the chemical composition of useful plants at their different stages of growth ; the comparative advantages of rotative cropping as pursued under a varying series of crops ; the capacity of new plants or trees for acclimation ; the analysis of soils and water...
Page 603 - scaped world's and flesh's rage, And if no other misery, yet age! Rest in soft peace, and asked, say, Here doth lie Ben Jonson his best piece of poetry.
Page 16 - Their love of liberty, as with you, fixed and attached on this specific point of taxing. Liberty might be safe, or might be endangered, in twenty other particulars, without their being much pleased or alarmed. Here they felt its pulse; and as they found that beat, they thought themselves sick or sound. I do not say whether they were right or wrong in applying your general arguments to their own case. It is not easy, indeed, to make a monopoly of theorems and corollaries. The fact is, that they did...
Page 554 - GOVERNMENT, superseding, as far as may be deemed expedient, the local law, and exercised by the military commander under the direction of the President, with the express or implied sanction of Congress; while the third may be denominated MARTIAL LAW PROPER, and is called into action by Congress, or temporarily, when the action of Congress cannot be invited, and in the case of justifying or excusing peril, by the President, in times of insurrection or invasion, or of civil or foreign war, within districts...
Page 15 - They went much further ; they attempted to prove, and they succeeded, that in theory it ought to be so, from the particular nature of a House of Commons, as an immediate representative of the people, whether the old records had delivered this oracle or not. They took infinite pains to inculcate as a fundamental principle, that in all monarchies the people must in effect themselves, mediately or immediately, possess the power of granting their own money, or no shadow of liberty could subsist.
Page 746 - Cuba, almost in sight of our shores, from a multitude of considerations has become an object of transcendent importance to the commercial and political interests of our Union. Its commanding position with reference to the Gulf of Mexico and the West India seas...
Page 271 - It may be assumed that the holders of our securities have already received upon their bonds a larger amount than their original investment, measured by a gold standard. Upon this statement of facts it would seem but just and equitable that the...
Page 554 - ... by martial rule until the laws can have their free course. As necessity creates the rule, so it limits its duration; for if this government is continued after the courts are reinstated, it is a gross usurpation of power. Martial rule can never exist where the courts are open and in the proper and unobstructed exercise of their jurisdiction. It is also confined to the locality of actual war.