The North American Review, Volume 222University of Northern Iowa, 1925 - North American review and miscellaneous journal |
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... committee . Realization of the power of committees over the course of legislation , and of the supreme power of the chairmen of the important committees both in the Senate and the House , does not seem to be very general , and when a ...
... committee . Realization of the power of committees over the course of legislation , and of the supreme power of the chairmen of the important committees both in the Senate and the House , does not seem to be very general , and when a ...
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... committees . The practice , then , is a universal one ; it is a more or less fixed part of Congressional procedure ... committee assignments are being made . The way the seniority rule has worked in recent years is very interesting and ...
... committees . The practice , then , is a universal one ; it is a more or less fixed part of Congressional procedure ... committee assignments are being made . The way the seniority rule has worked in recent years is very interesting and ...
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... Committee on the Philippines , which at that time was of some importance . In the succeeding Congresses he held chairmanships of minor committees , but it was not until the Sixty - sixth Congress in 1919 , after twenty - six years of ...
... Committee on the Philippines , which at that time was of some importance . In the succeeding Congresses he held chairmanships of minor committees , but it was not until the Sixty - sixth Congress in 1919 , after twenty - six years of ...
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... committee chairmen that he advocated for them a scale of increasing salaries , mount- ing fifty and one hundred per cent ... committees , Indian Affairs , and Privileges and Elections . On the other hand Senator Cameron , who was almost ...
... committee chairmen that he advocated for them a scale of increasing salaries , mount- ing fifty and one hundred per cent ... committees , Indian Affairs , and Privileges and Elections . On the other hand Senator Cameron , who was almost ...
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... committees who had served less than ten years , most of them with only four or six years of Senate service . Only one of these fifteen committees , however , was of major importance , but the incumbent of that committee , Senator ...
... committees who had served less than ten years , most of them with only four or six years of Senate service . Only one of these fifteen committees , however , was of major importance , but the incumbent of that committee , Senator ...
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Page 23 - The effect of the first difference is, on the one hand, to refine and enlarge the public views, by passing them through the medium of a chosen body of citizens, whose wisdom may best discern the true interest of their country, and whose patriotism and love of justice will be least likely to sacrifice it to temporary or partial considerations.
Page 22 - Hence it is that such democracies have ever been spectacles of turbulence and contention; have ever been found incompatible with personal security or the rights of property, and have in general been as short in their lives as they have been violent in their deaths.
Page 273 - After the first enumeration required by the first article of the Constitution, there shall be one Representative for every thirty thousand, until the number shall amount to one hundred, after which the proportion shall be so regulated by Congress, that there shall be not less than one hundred Representatives, nor less than one...
Page 41 - By the general concurrence of opinion of every civilized and Christian community, there are few sources of crime and misery to society equal to the dramshop, where intoxicating liquors, in small quantities, to be drunk at the time, are sold indiscriminately to all parties applying. The statistics of every State show a greater amount of crime and misery attributable to the use of ardent spirits obtained at these retail liquor saloons than to any other source.
Page 148 - The dust of great persons' graves is speechless too, it says nothing, it distinguishes nothing : as soon the dust of a wretch whom thou wouldest not, as of a prince whom thou couldest not look upon, will trouble thine eyes, if the wind blow it thither ; and when a whirl-wind hath blown the dust of the churchyard into the church, and the man sweeps out the dust of the church into the churchyard, who will undertake to sift those dusts again, and to pronounce, This is the patrician, this is the noble...
Page 22 - The two great points of difference between a democracy and a republic are: first, the delegation of the government, in the latter, to a small number of citizens elected by the rest; secondly, the greater number of citizens and greater sphere of country over which the latter may be extended.
Page 41 - There is no justification for holding that the state, under the guise merely of police regulations, is here aiming to deprive the citizen of his constitutional rights: for we cannot shut out of view the fact, within the knowledge of all, that the public health, the public morals, and the public safety may be endangered by the general use of intoxicating drinks nor the fact established by statistics accessible to everyone, that the idleness, disorder, pauperism, and crime existing in the country are,...
Page 15 - If a case should ever arise, where an arbitrary and confiscatory exaction is imposed bearing the guise of a progressive or any other form of tax, it will be time enough to consider whether the judicial power can afford a remedy by applying inherent and fundamental principles for the protection of the individual, even though there be no express authority in the Constitution to do so.
Page 279 - No amendment shall be made to the Constitution which will authorize, or give to Congress the power to abolish or interfere, within any State, with the domestic institutions thereof, including that of persons held to labor or service by the laws of said State.
Page 160 - Lilacs, False blue, White, Purple, Color of lilac, Heart-leaves of lilac all over New England, Roots of lilac under all the soil of New England, Lilac in me because I am New England, Because my roots are in it, Because my leaves are of it, Because my flowers are for it, Because it is my country And I speak to it of itself And sing of it with my own voice Since certainly it is mine.