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... President and Congress at Washing- ton . Our Presidents are the working heads of a great purposive business machine , and no longer kowtow to Congress as did Washington and his immediate suc- cessors . Our judicial systems were ...
... President and Congress at Washing- ton . Our Presidents are the working heads of a great purposive business machine , and no longer kowtow to Congress as did Washington and his immediate suc- cessors . Our judicial systems were ...
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... President of our people , in the midst of the great- est civil war in history , during which he had been assailed and reviled beyond measure , could utter those words which we prize as among the greatest spoken by any man of our race or ...
... President of our people , in the midst of the great- est civil war in history , during which he had been assailed and reviled beyond measure , could utter those words which we prize as among the greatest spoken by any man of our race or ...
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... President Jackson tersely expresses this sentiment as follows : " In a political point of view , this department is chiefly important as affording the means of diffusing knowledge . It is to the body politic what the veins and arteries ...
... President Jackson tersely expresses this sentiment as follows : " In a political point of view , this department is chiefly important as affording the means of diffusing knowledge . It is to the body politic what the veins and arteries ...
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... President John Quincy Adams , in his message to Congress , said that the mails would soon be carried to the door of every villager in the Union , and yet there would be a yearly surplus of revenue to be " 6 applied as the wisdom of ...
... President John Quincy Adams , in his message to Congress , said that the mails would soon be carried to the door of every villager in the Union , and yet there would be a yearly surplus of revenue to be " 6 applied as the wisdom of ...
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... President , by and with the advice and consent of the Senate . Formerly the fourth class postmasters were appointed in the same way . This led to much political scandal . With every change of administration there was a rush of new appli ...
... President , by and with the advice and consent of the Senate . Formerly the fourth class postmasters were appointed in the same way . This led to much political scandal . With every change of administration there was a rush of new appli ...
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Page 160 - State which may take and claim the benefit of this act, to the endowment, support, and maintenance of at least one college, where the leading object shall be, without excluding other scientific and classical studies, and including military tactics, to teach such branches of learning as are related to agriculture and the mechanic arts, in such manner as the Legislatures of the States may respectively prescribe, in order to promote the liberal and practical education of the industrial classes in the...
Page 63 - means not only the right of the citizen to be free from the mere physical restraint of his person, as by incarceration, but the term is deemed to embrace the right of the citizen to be free in the enjoyment of all his faculties...
Page 29 - The mode of production in material life determines the general character of the social, political and spiritual processes of life. It is not the consciousness of men that determines their existence, but, on the contrary, their social existence determines their consciousness.
Page 213 - COMMISSIONER OF PENSIONS. The Commissioner of Pensions supervises the examination and adjudication of all claims arising under laws passed by Congress granting pensions on account of service in the Army or Navy rendered wholly prior to October 6, 1917; claims for reimbursement for the expenses of the last sickness and burial...
Page 311 - That whenever any form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundations on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness.
Page 43 - The body-politic is formed by a voluntary association of individuals; it is a social compact by which the whole people covenants with each citizen and each citizen with the whole people that all shall be governed by certain laws for the common good.
Page 195 - Union, at a time and place to be agreed on, to take into consideration the trade of the United States, to examine the relative situations and trade of the said states, to consider how far a uniform system in their commercial regulations may be necessary to their common interest and their permanent harmony...
Page 43 - The end of the institution, maintenance, and administration of government, is to secure the existence of the body politic, to protect it, and to furnish the individuals who compose it with the power of enjoying in safety and tranquility their natural rights, and the blessings of life...
Page 259 - The mobs of great cities add just so much to the support of pure government as sores do to the strength of the human body.
Page 287 - Appointments and promotions in the civil service of the State, and of all the civil divisions thereof, including cities and villages, shall be made according to merit and fitness to be ascertained, so far as practicable, by examination which, so far as practicable, shall be competitive...