Working Manual of Original Sources in American Government

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Johns Hopkins Press, 1924 - 135 sidor

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Sida 13 - SIR: The circumstances under which we find ourselves at this place rendering inconvenient the mode heretofore practiced of making by personal address the first communications between the legislative and executive branches, I have adopted that by message, as used on all subsequent occasions through the session. In doing this I have had principal regard to the convenience of the Legislature, to the economy of their time, to their relief from the embarrassment of immediate answers on subjects not yet...
Sida 132 - ... Between the United States and Great Britain for the Protection of Migratory Birds in the United States and...
Sida 13 - To be prepared for war is one of the most effectual means of preserving peace.
Sida 80 - Let me now take a more comprehensive view, and warn you in the most solemn manner against the baneful effects of the spirit of party generally.
Sida 13 - And when in the calm moments of reflection, they shall have retraced the origin and progress of the insurrection, let them determine, whether it has not been fomented by combinations...
Sida 80 - Great men are not chosen Presidents, firstly, because great men are rare in politics; secondly, because the method of choice does not bring them to the top; thirdly, because they are not, in quiet times, absolutely needed.
Sida 3 - Every one knows, that a great proportion of the errors committed by the State Legislatures proceeds from the disposition of the members to sacrifice the comprehensive and permanent interest of the State, to the particular and separate views of the counties or districts in which they reside.
Sida 23 - LM Short, The Development of National Administrative Organization in the United States, 1923.
Sida 132 - Convention" means the International Opium Convention for the Suppression of the Abuses of Opium and other Drugs signed at the Hague, January 23, 1912, and entered into force with respect to the United States, February 11, 1915. "1925 Convention...
Sida 43 - June in wrestling with the details involved in writing bills "for laying a duty on goods, wares and merchandises imported into the United States" and for imposing duties on tonnage.

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