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... most absurd and illogical institution , and no one has more keenly satirised its theoretical constitution than British writers , especially Thackeray . And yet all writers on politics agree that among the primary objects of a good.
... most absurd and illogical institution , and no one has more keenly satirised its theoretical constitution than British writers , especially Thackeray . And yet all writers on politics agree that among the primary objects of a good.
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... Constitution b creating a new batch of Peers to swamp the House of Lords . is usual for profound politicians to work ... CONSTITUTIONAL RESTRAINTS T THE VETO POWER OF THE PRESIDENT . THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.
... Constitution b creating a new batch of Peers to swamp the House of Lords . is usual for profound politicians to work ... CONSTITUTIONAL RESTRAINTS T THE VETO POWER OF THE PRESIDENT . THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.
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And Other Political Questions John Whipple Dwinelle. CONSTITUTIONAL RESTRAINTS T THE VETO POWER OF THE PRESIDENT . One of the most potent preventives of hasty legislation pro- vided by the Constitution of the United States , is the power ...
And Other Political Questions John Whipple Dwinelle. CONSTITUTIONAL RESTRAINTS T THE VETO POWER OF THE PRESIDENT . One of the most potent preventives of hasty legislation pro- vided by the Constitution of the United States , is the power ...
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... constitutional change . NO FORM OF GOVERNMENT EITHER GOOD OR BAD IN ITSELF . As the science of government in its application to nations ceases to be an abstract science , but becomes a practical art by reason of the complication of ...
... constitutional change . NO FORM OF GOVERNMENT EITHER GOOD OR BAD IN ITSELF . As the science of government in its application to nations ceases to be an abstract science , but becomes a practical art by reason of the complication of ...
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... constitutional position which declared his person inviolable ; the massacres of September ; the Reign of Terror ; the murder of Queen Marie Antoinette ; and that most pitiful tra- gedy in all history , the slow assassination of the boy ...
... constitutional position which declared his person inviolable ; the massacres of September ; the Reign of Terror ; the murder of Queen Marie Antoinette ; and that most pitiful tra- gedy in all history , the slow assassination of the boy ...
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Page 60 - Treaty; and all claims, with the like exception, on the part of Corporations, Companies, or private individuals, subjects of Her Britannic Majesty , upon the Government of the United States...
Page 31 - I would rather be handed down to posterity as the builder of a dozen AlaIm-inas than as the man who applies himself deliberately to set class against class, and to cry up the institutions of another country which, when they come to be tested, are of no value whatever, and which reduce the very name of liberty to an utter absurdity.
Page 59 - Government as well as by its citizens. The injuries resulting to the United States by reason of the course adopted by Great Britain .during our late civil war...
Page 60 - The high contracting parties agree that all claims on the part of corporations, companies, or private individuals, citizens of the United States, upon the Government of her Britannic Majesty...