The Abridgment ... Containing the Annual Message of the President of the United States to the Two Houses of Congress ... with Reports of Departments and Selections from Accompanying Papers |
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... tion . This took place in the following July , ( 1857 , ) and General Comonfort was chosen president almost without opposition . At the same election a new congress was chosen , whose first session commenced on the 16th of September ...
... tion . This took place in the following July , ( 1857 , ) and General Comonfort was chosen president almost without opposition . At the same election a new congress was chosen , whose first session commenced on the 16th of September ...
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... tion for the naval service . The chief objection urged against the grant of this authority is that Congress , by conferring it , would violate the Constitution - that it would be a transfer of the war - making , or , strictly speaking ...
... tion for the naval service . The chief objection urged against the grant of this authority is that Congress , by conferring it , would violate the Constitution - that it would be a transfer of the war - making , or , strictly speaking ...
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... tion bills necessary to carry on the government , may not only arrest its action , but might even destroy its existence . The army , the navy , the judiciary , in short , every department of the government , can no longer perform their ...
... tion bills necessary to carry on the government , may not only arrest its action , but might even destroy its existence . The army , the navy , the judiciary , in short , every department of the government , can no longer perform their ...
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... tion will be permanent . The estimates of the department for the next have been reduced nearly two millions of dollars below the esti- mates for the present fiscal year , and half a million of dollars below the amount granted for this ...
... tion will be permanent . The estimates of the department for the next have been reduced nearly two millions of dollars below the esti- mates for the present fiscal year , and half a million of dollars below the amount granted for this ...
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... tion the actual condition of public sentiment whenever measures of doubtful character are proposed , and satisfy themselves not only that they are also practically expedient . There are three principal subjects connected with the rights ...
... tion the actual condition of public sentiment whenever measures of doubtful character are proposed , and satisfy themselves not only that they are also practically expedient . There are three principal subjects connected with the rights ...
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