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... secretary of the treasury under Mon- roe , was the designated candidate of a portion of the demo- cratic party , when a stroke of paralysis made of him a physical and mental ruin . Spite of this , however , his more intimate friends did ...
... secretary of the treasury under Mon- roe , was the designated candidate of a portion of the demo- cratic party , when a stroke of paralysis made of him a physical and mental ruin . Spite of this , however , his more intimate friends did ...
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... secretary of the navy , was an indifferent personage ; he now obtained a place in the cabinet , just as he had previously , on account of his wealth and of his highly respectable social position , obtained the governorship of North ...
... secretary of the navy , was an indifferent personage ; he now obtained a place in the cabinet , just as he had previously , on account of his wealth and of his highly respectable social position , obtained the governorship of North ...
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... secretary of war , Eaton , was , indeed , a United States senator , but had never played an important political part . He was chosen as a boon companion from Tennessee , and out of gratitude for his services in bringing the electoral ...
... secretary of war , Eaton , was , indeed , a United States senator , but had never played an important political part . He was chosen as a boon companion from Tennessee , and out of gratitude for his services in bringing the electoral ...
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... secretary of finance expresses his acknowledgments for the manner in which the bank com- plied with the wishes of the administration . The first de- monstrable provocation of ill temper was afforded by a matter unimportant in itself ...
... secretary of finance expresses his acknowledgments for the manner in which the bank com- plied with the wishes of the administration . The first de- monstrable provocation of ill temper was afforded by a matter unimportant in itself ...
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... secretary of finance stood another personage . Isaac Hill , at the time an employe of the treas- ury office , and soon one of the most dreaded powers behind the throne , held the wires in his hand behind the curtain ; and his only aim ...
... secretary of finance stood another personage . Isaac Hill , at the time an employe of the treas- ury office , and soon one of the most dreaded powers behind the throne , held the wires in his hand behind the curtain ; and his only aim ...
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Sida 429 - I AM the Lord thy God, who brought thee out of the land of Egypt, and out of the house of bondage.
Sida 64 - By the constitution of the United States, the president is invested with certain important political powers, in the exercise of which, he is to use his own discretion, and is accountable only to his country in his political character, and to his own conscience.
Sida 64 - In such cases, their acts are his acts ; and whatever opinion may be entertained of the manner in which Executive discretion may be used, still there exists, and can exist, no power to control that discretion. The subjects are political; they respect the nation, not individual rights, and being intrusted to the Executive, the decision of the Executive is conclusive.
Sida 441 - Army, shall be considered as a common fund for the use and benefit of such of the United States as have become, or shall become members of the confederation...
Sida 48 - But where the law is not prohibited, and is really calculated to effect any of the objects intrusted to the government, to undertake here to inquire into the degree of its necessity, would be to pass the line which circumscribes the judicial department, and to tread on legislative ground.
Sida 49 - The Congress, the Executive and the Court must each for itself be guided by its own opinion of the Constitution. Each public officer who takes an oath to support the Constitution swears that he will support it as he understands it, and not as it is understood by others.
Sida 263 - William Slade, of Vermont, joined to the presentation of some abolitionist petitions the motion that they should be referred to an extraordinary committee, with instructions to bring in a bill for the abolition of slavery and the slave trade in the District of Columbia.
Sida 50 - ... every man is equally entitled to protection by law; but when the laws undertake to add to these natural and just advantages artificial distinctions, to grant titles, gratuities, and exclusive privileges, to make the rich richer and the potent more powerful...
Sida 254 - No Indian tribe in exercising powers of self-government shall— (1) make or enforce any law prohibiting the free exercise of religion, or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press, or the right of the people peaceably to assemble and to petition for a redress of grievances...
Sida 245 - That all petitions, memorials, resolutions, propositions, or papers, relating in any way, or to any extent whatsoever, to the subject of slavery, or the abolition of slavery, shall, without being either printed or referred, be laid upon the table, and that no further action whatever shall be had thereon.