Issues of the Day, Being a Text-book on the Political Situation, Past and Present ...: A Compplete Dictionary of Civil Government

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C.H. Oliver, 1905 - 606 páginas
 

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Página 339 - the wars of the European powers, in matters relating to themselves, we have never taken any part; nor does it comport with our policy to do so. It is only when our rights are invaded or seriously menaced that we resent injuries or make preparation for our defense. With the movements in this hemisphere we are of necessity more immediately
Página 145 - 26. He has constrained our fellow-citizens, taken captive on the high seas, to bear arms against their country, to become the executioners of their friends and brethren, or to fall themselves by their hands. Nor have we been wanting in
Página 31 - citizen of the United States, and to renounce forever all allegiance and fidelity to any foreign prince or state, and particularly to the one of which he may be at the time a citizen or subject. OATH ON APPLICATION FOR ADMISSION. He must at the time of his application
Página 164 - of Representatives.—Representatives shall be apportioned among the several States according to their respective numbers, counting the whole number of persons in each State, excluding Indians not taxed. But when the right to vote at any election for the choice of electors for President and Vice-Président of the United States, Representatives
Página 171 - United States ; and tho fact that any state, or the people thereof, shall on that day be in good faith represented in the Congress of the United States by the members chosen thereto at elections wherein a majority of the qualified
Página 31 - for at least five years, and within the state or territory where -such court is at the time held one year at least; and that during that time "he has behaved as a man of good moral character, attached to the
Página 339 - by the loss of so much blood and treasure, and matured by the wisdom of her most enlightened citizens, and under which we have enjoyed unexampled felicity, this whole nation is devoted. We owe it, therefore, to candor, and
Página 288 - demands for a gold standard by saying you shall not press down upon the brow of labor this crown of thorns. You shall not crucify mankind upon a cross of gold.

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