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... vote of the states of New York , Pennsylvania and Ohio , with a population exceeding t millions , may be neutralized in the Senate by the vote of t states of Delaware , Rhode Island and Oregon , which have n altogether a population of ...
... vote of the states of New York , Pennsylvania and Ohio , with a population exceeding t millions , may be neutralized in the Senate by the vote of t states of Delaware , Rhode Island and Oregon , which have n altogether a population of ...
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... vote for only two candidates ; that the two who r ceived the largest number of votes should become members . the first house of the legislature , and the third who received the next highest number should become a member of the secon ...
... vote for only two candidates ; that the two who r ceived the largest number of votes should become members . the first house of the legislature , and the third who received the next highest number should become a member of the secon ...
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... vote . The system is not , I think , a popular one among the people themselves . But it has not as yet borne such fruits as to make it worthy of condemnation . An exceptional case does not present any just ground for condemning a system ...
... vote . The system is not , I think , a popular one among the people themselves . But it has not as yet borne such fruits as to make it worthy of condemnation . An exceptional case does not present any just ground for condemning a system ...
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... vote of the people . There is not among them all a single judge of bad antecedents , doubt- ful morals , or questionable integrity . It is easy , and perhaps natural , for a suitor who is himself dishonest , and has lost his case in ...
... vote of the people . There is not among them all a single judge of bad antecedents , doubt- ful morals , or questionable integrity . It is easy , and perhaps natural , for a suitor who is himself dishonest , and has lost his case in ...
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... vote of 58 to 1 . After this final action of the Senate the injunction of secrecy was removed , and Mr. Sumner's speech permitted to be published ; a courtesy which , under such circumstances , is generally extended to a speaker ( 1 ) ...
... vote of 58 to 1 . After this final action of the Senate the injunction of secrecy was removed , and Mr. Sumner's speech permitted to be published ; a courtesy which , under such circumstances , is generally extended to a speaker ( 1 ) ...
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American Opinions on the "Alabama," and Other Political Questions (Classic ... John W. Dwinelle No preview available - 2018 |
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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...