The Origin, Tendencies and Principles of Government: Or, A Review of the Rise and Fall of Nations from Early Historic Times to the Present: with Special Considerations Regarding the Future of the United States as the Representative Government of the World and the Form of Administration which Will Secure this Consummation. Also, Papers on Human Equality, as Represented by Labor and Its Representative, Money: and the Meaning and Significance of Life from a Scientific Standpoint, with Its Prophecies for the Great Future |
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... politics and business and exercised the rights I already possessed . I therefore claim the right to speak for the unenfranchised women of the country , and believing as I do that the prejudices which still exist in the popular mind ...
... politics and business and exercised the rights I already possessed . I therefore claim the right to speak for the unenfranchised women of the country , and believing as I do that the prejudices which still exist in the popular mind ...
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... political equality as much as they please . They cannot roll back the rising tide of reform . The world moves . That great Governmental changes were to follow the enfranchise- ment of the negro I have long foreseen . While the curse of ...
... political equality as much as they please . They cannot roll back the rising tide of reform . The world moves . That great Governmental changes were to follow the enfranchise- ment of the negro I have long foreseen . While the curse of ...
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... political equality with the negro is the only one to be tried , and none more important is likely to arise before the Presidential election . But besides the question of equality others of great magnitude are necessarily included . The ...
... political equality with the negro is the only one to be tried , and none more important is likely to arise before the Presidential election . But besides the question of equality others of great magnitude are necessarily included . The ...
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... political parties passed away , and left the people with no distinct lines of demarkation . It is true that there bodies still exist , but the process of disintegration is rapidly going on , and the stench of their decay fills the ...
... political parties passed away , and left the people with no distinct lines of demarkation . It is true that there bodies still exist , but the process of disintegration is rapidly going on , and the stench of their decay fills the ...
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... political divisions of the people called Republican and Democratic , the issue between which , grew entirely out of ... political parties in existence which represent any question to be solved or settled . Nothing could be more ...
... political divisions of the people called Republican and Democratic , the issue between which , grew entirely out of ... political parties in existence which represent any question to be solved or settled . Nothing could be more ...
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Page 12 - States. 2 A person charged in any State with treason, felony, or other crime, who shall flee from justice, and be found in another State, shall on demand of the executive authority of the State from which he fled, be delivered up to be removed to the State having jurisdiction of the crime.
Page 7 - States; 3. To regulate commerce with foreign nations and among the several states, and with the Indian tribes; 4. To establish an uniform rule of naturalization, and uniform laws on the subject of bankruptcies throughout the United States; 5. To coin money, regulate the value thereof, and of foreign coin, and fix the standard of weights and measures; 6. To provide for the punishment of counterfeiting the securities and current coin of the United States; 7.
Page 8 - ... 2. The privilege of the writ of habeas corpus shall not be suspended, unless when in cases of rebellion or invasion the public safety may require it. 3. No bill of attainder or ex post facto law shall be passed. 4. No capitation or other direct tax shall be laid, unless in proportion to the census or enumeration herein before directed to be taken.
Page 6 - The times, places, and manner of holding elections for Senators and Representatives shall be prescribed in each State by the Legislature thereof, but the Congress may at any time by law make or alter such regulations, except as to the places of choosing Senators.
Page 8 - To exercise exclusive legislation in all cases whatsoever, over such district (not exceeding ten miles square) as may, by cession of particular States, and the acceptance of Congress, become the seat of government of the United States, and to exercise like authority over all places purchased, by the consent of the Legislature of the State in which the same shall be, for the erection of forts, magazines, arsenals, dockyards, and other needful buildings : and, 17.
Page 13 - All debts contracted, and engagements entered into, before the adoption of this Constitution, shall be as valid against the United States under this Constitution, as under the confederation. 2. -This Constitution, and the laws of the United States which shall be made in pursuance thereof; and all treaties made, or which shall be...
Page 5 - Senate, but shall have no vote, unless they be equally divided. 5. The Senate shall choose their other officers, and also a president pro tempore in the absence of the VicePresident, or when he shall exercise the office of President of the United States.
Page 9 - State, be obliged to enter, clear, or pay duties in another. 6. No money shall be drawn from the treasury, but in consequence of appropriations made by law; and a regular statement and account of the receipts and expenditures of all public money shall be published from time to time. 7. No...
Page 12 - Treason against the United States shall consist only in levying war against them, or in adhering to their enemies, giving them aid and comfort. No person shall be convicted of treason unless on the testimony of two witnesses to the same overt act, or on confession in open court.
Page 6 - ... Each House shall be the judge of the elections, returns, and qualifications of its own members; and a majority of each shall constitute a quorum to do business; but a smaller number may adjourn from day to day. and may be authorized to compel the attendance of absent members, in such manner, and under such penalties, as each House may provide. 2. Each House may determine the rules of its proceedings, punish its members for disorderly behavior, and, with the concurrence of two-thirds, expel a...