Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, Volume 12A.L. Hummel, 1898 - Political science |
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Page 140 - This section shall not be construed to prevent the issuing of certificates of indebtedness or revenue bonds issued in anticipation of the collection of taxes for amounts actually contained, or to be contained in the taxes for the year when such certificates or revenue bonds are issued and payable out of such taxes.
Page 67 - ... with the presumed consent of the people, until Congress shall provide for them a territorial government. The great law of necessity justifies this conclusion. The consent of the people is irresistibly inferred from the fact that no civilized community could possibly desire to abrogate an existing government when the alternative presented would be to place themselves in a state of anarchy, beyond the protection...
Page 63 - ... (A Word of Comfort to a Melancholy Country or the Bank of Credit erected in the Massachusetts Bay, fairly defended...
Page 61 - It is the wish and design of the United States to provide for California, with the least possible delay, a free government, similar to those in her other territories ; and the people will soon be called upon to exercise their rights as freemen, in electing their own representatives, to make such laws as may be deemed best for their interest and welfare.
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Page 6 - Spirit, if any tender mercies and compassions, fulfil ye my joy, that ye be of the same mind, having the same love, being of one accord, of one mind ; doing nothing through faction or through vainglory, but in lowliness of mind each counting other better than himself; not looking each of you to his own things, but each of you also to the things of others.
Page 22 - TN the Quarterly the highest authorities will discuss impartially •*• the various aspects of the great movements and important topics of current interest Every department will maintain the high standard of excellence which has characterized the periodical for more than a decade. The scope of the Quarterly is wide enough to Politics* include all the leading questions which appeal to men as parts of the body politic.
Page 67 - This, in process of time, must lead to party organization, and party caucuses and discipline; and these, to the conversion of the honors and emoluments of the government into means of rewarding partisan services, in order to secure the fidelity and increase the zeal of the members of the party. The effect of the whole combined, even in the earlier stages of the process, when they exert the least pernicious influence, would be to place the control of the two parties in the hands of their respective...
Page 61 - PROCLAMATION TO THE PEOPLE OF CALIFORNIA. The President of the United States having instructed the undersigned to take charge of the civil government of California, he enters upon his duties with an ardent desire to promote, as far as he is able, the interests of the country and the welfare of its inhabitants.