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... debate , nor a phenomenon of occasion- al personal volition . It was an unshakable fact and a permanent institution . President Taft accepted it with that abundant good sense and appreciation of the practical which always characterized ...
... debate , nor a phenomenon of occasion- al personal volition . It was an unshakable fact and a permanent institution . President Taft accepted it with that abundant good sense and appreciation of the practical which always characterized ...
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... debate has largely ceased to influ- ence the character of public opinion . . . . Nor is the individual member of Congress alone in his eclipse . The congressional committees have become less the moulders of legislation than the ...
... debate has largely ceased to influ- ence the character of public opinion . . . . Nor is the individual member of Congress alone in his eclipse . The congressional committees have become less the moulders of legislation than the ...
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... debates on the de- tails of bills are fruitless . On the contrary , it often hap- pens that the discussion exposes defects of which the government was not aware , or reveals an unsuspected but wide - spread hostility to some provision ...
... debates on the de- tails of bills are fruitless . On the contrary , it often hap- pens that the discussion exposes defects of which the government was not aware , or reveals an unsuspected but wide - spread hostility to some provision ...
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... debates . It might easily result that the Presi- dent of the French Republic should be only a figure- head , a mere puppet in the hands of his ministers . Historically it is the fact that this does result when he is a man of mediocre ...
... debates . It might easily result that the Presi- dent of the French Republic should be only a figure- head , a mere puppet in the hands of his ministers . Historically it is the fact that this does result when he is a man of mediocre ...
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... debates by at least one of the cabinet ministers , but he shall have no vote . " In Costa Rica and Uruguay , in addition to the initiative of the members of the legislature , laws may originate " on the proposal of the executive power ...
... debates by at least one of the cabinet ministers , but he shall have no vote . " In Costa Rica and Uruguay , in addition to the initiative of the members of the legislature , laws may originate " on the proposal of the executive power ...
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Page 82 - If any bill presented to the governor contain several items of appropriation of money, he may object to one or more of such items while approving of the other portions of the bill. In such case, he shall append to the bill, at the time of signing it, a statement of the items to which he objects; and the appropriation so objected to shall not take effect.
Page 11 - The true view of the Executive functions is, as I conceive it, that the President can exercise no power which cannot be fairly and reasonably traced to some specific grant of power or justly implied and included within such express grant as proper and necessary to its exercise.
Page 113 - Now, therefore, I, ABRAHAM LINCOLN, President of the United States, by virtue of the power in me vested as Commander-in-Chief of the Army and Navy of the United States in time of actual armed rebellion against the authority and Government of the United States, and as a fit and necessary war measure for suppressing said rebellion...
Page 117 - And, whereas, It has now become necessary in the national defense to take possession and assume control of certain systems of transportation and to utilize the same, to the exclusion as far as may be necessary of other than war traffic thereon, for the transportation of troops, war material and equipment therefor, and for other needful and desirable purposes connected with the prosecution of the war...
Page 117 - Joint resolution authorizing the President to take over for the United States the possession and title of any vessel within its jurisdiction, which at the time of coming therein was owned in whole or in part by any corporation, citizen, or subject of any nation with which the United States may be at war, or was under register of any such nation, and for other purposes,
Page 117 - The President in time of war is empowered, through the Secretary of War, to take possession and assume control of any system or systems of transportation, or any part thereof, and to utilize the same, to the exclusion, as far as may be necessary, of all other traffic thereon, for the transfer or transportation of troops, war material, and equipment, or for such other purposes connected with the emergency as may be needful or desirable...
Page 96 - We, therefore, have thought fit, by and with the advice of our Privy Council...
Page 117 - An Act to provide further for the national security and defense by encouraging the production, conserving the supply, and controlling the distribution of food products and fuel...
Page 117 - President be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to employ the entire naval and military forces of the United States and the resources of the Government to carry on war against the Imperial German Government; and to bring the conflict to a successful termination all of the resources of the country are hereby pledged by the Congress of the United States.