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... electors , measured in numbers by the aggregate representation of the State in the two Houses of Congress . The design of this intermediate body was twofold : first , to avoid the tumults that might attend a direct vote of the people ...
... electors , measured in numbers by the aggregate representation of the State in the two Houses of Congress . The design of this intermediate body was twofold : first , to avoid the tumults that might attend a direct vote of the people ...
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... electors men of their own political faith and opinions , and at the same time it avoids the dictation of the individual to whom the elec- toral votes of the States are to be given . The members of an electoral college , appointed by the ...
... electors men of their own political faith and opinions , and at the same time it avoids the dictation of the individual to whom the elec- toral votes of the States are to be given . The members of an electoral college , appointed by the ...
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... electors should be chosen by the State legislatures or appointed by the State executives . At length , after the most laborious and careful consideration , the plan was adopted of electors to be ap- pointed by the different States ...
... electors should be chosen by the State legislatures or appointed by the State executives . At length , after the most laborious and careful consideration , the plan was adopted of electors to be ap- pointed by the different States ...
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... electors ought to select a chief magistrate for the nation . The emancipation of the country from the evils of the spoils system may do something to break up the convention system of making nominations . But it needs to be supplemented ...
... electors ought to select a chief magistrate for the nation . The emancipation of the country from the evils of the spoils system may do something to break up the convention system of making nominations . But it needs to be supplemented ...
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... electors from the absolute dic- tation of a party nomination . This may be done by a single change . The Constitution , as it stood until the year 1804 , after providing for the appointment of electors by each State in such manner as ...
... electors from the absolute dic- tation of a party nomination . This may be done by a single change . The Constitution , as it stood until the year 1804 , after providing for the appointment of electors by each State in such manner as ...
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Página 169 - I wish for nothing but to breathe, in this our island, in common with my fellow-subjects, the air of liberty. I have no ambition, unless it be the ambition to break your chain and contemplate your glory.
Página 382 - tis not so deep as a well, nor so wide as a church door ; but 'tis enough, 'twill serve : ask for me to-morrow, and you shall find me a grave man. I am peppered, I warrant, for this world. A plague o...
Página 224 - Some truths there are so near and obvious to the mind that a man need only open his eyes to see them. Such I take this important one to be, viz., that all the choir of heaven and furniture ' of the earth, in a word all those bodies which compose the mighty frame of the world, have not any subsistence without a mind...
Página 7 - Oh Thou, who Man of baser Earth didst make, And ev'n with Paradise devise the Snake: For all the Sin wherewith the Face of Man Is blacken'd — Man's forgiveness give — and take!
Página 74 - Nay, take my life and all; pardon not that. You take my house, when you do take the prop That doth sustain my house ; you take my life, When you do take the means whereby I live.
Página 114 - A man pressed to death for refusing to plead, a woman burned for coining, excited less sympathy than is now felt for a galled horse or an overdriven ox.
Página 113 - The discipline of workshops, of schools, of private families, though not more efficient than at present, was infinitely harsher. Masters, well born and bred, were in the habit of beating their servants. Pedagogues knew no way of imparting knowledge but by beating their pupils. Husbands, of decent station, were not ashamed to beat their wives.
Página 268 - A little smoke couldn't be noticed now, so we would take some fish off of the lines and cook up a hot breakfast. And afterwards we would watch the lonesomeness of the river, and kind of lazy along, and by and by lazy off to sleep.
Página 549 - ... others, and that corner was hanging over. People lived in them yet, but it was dangersome, because sometimes a strip of land as wide as a house caves in at a time. Sometimes a belt of land a quarter of a mile deep will start in and cave along and cave along till it all caves into the river in one summer. Such a town as that has to be always moving back, and back, and back, because the river's always gnawing at it.
Página 276 - ... forgot her Testament, and left it in the seat at church between two other books, and would I slip out quiet and go there and fetch it to her, and not say nothing to nobody. I said I would. So I slid out and slipped off up the road, and there warn't anybody at the church, except maybe a hog or two, for there warn't any lock on the door, and hogs likes a puncheon floor in summer-time because it's cool. If you notice, most folks don't go to church only when they've got to; but a hog is different.