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Even Eng- land , always claimed as being the home and refuge of liberty , protected few or none of the rights of the masses . Her vaunt- ed Magna Charta is merely the recognition by King John of the rights of the nobles and the clergy .
Even Eng- land , always claimed as being the home and refuge of liberty , protected few or none of the rights of the masses . Her vaunt- ed Magna Charta is merely the recognition by King John of the rights of the nobles and the clergy .
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His last and most important reform , was to equalize taxation among all the classes of soci- ety , and to reduce it to one single tax on land , in accordance with the doctrine of the Physiocrates : but , before he could accomplish this ...
His last and most important reform , was to equalize taxation among all the classes of soci- ety , and to reduce it to one single tax on land , in accordance with the doctrine of the Physiocrates : but , before he could accomplish this ...
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... Lands , Direct Tax , Internal Revenue , Miscellaneous , $ 19,271,092 342,186 16,080 46,562,860 9,020,171 $ 75,212,389 Taking these actual receipts of the first quarter as a basis of calculation , the estimated receipts for the three ...
... Lands , Direct Tax , Internal Revenue , Miscellaneous , $ 19,271,092 342,186 16,080 46,562,860 9,020,171 $ 75,212,389 Taking these actual receipts of the first quarter as a basis of calculation , the estimated receipts for the three ...
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For the year ending June 30 , 1866 , the estimated receipts are given as follows : Customs , Internal Duties , Lands , .. Miscellaneous , $ 70,000,000 300,000,000 1,000,000 25,000,000 $ 396,000,000 Let us now compare these sums in ...
For the year ending June 30 , 1866 , the estimated receipts are given as follows : Customs , Internal Duties , Lands , .. Miscellaneous , $ 70,000,000 300,000,000 1,000,000 25,000,000 $ 396,000,000 Let us now compare these sums in ...
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A " pledge of the proceeds " of the public lands , other than mineral lands , should the Homestead Law be re- pealed . Fourthly . A revenue from mineral lands owned by the nation . Fifthly . A system for deriving revenue from the ...
A " pledge of the proceeds " of the public lands , other than mineral lands , should the Homestead Law be re- pealed . Fourthly . A revenue from mineral lands owned by the nation . Fifthly . A system for deriving revenue from the ...
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Page 286 - ... and that this assemblage of horrors might want no fact of distinguished die, he is now exciting those very people to rise in arms among us, and to purchase that liberty of which he has deprived them, by murdering the people upon whom he also obtruded them; thus paying off former crimes committed against the liberties of one people, with crimes which he urges them to commit against the lives of another.
Page 307 - The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew. We must disenthrall ourselves, and then we shall save our country.
Page 300 - ... whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the right of the people to alter or abolish it, and to institute a new government, laying its foundations on such principles, and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their safety and happiness.
Page 307 - Executive — can secure its adoption? Will not the good people respond to a united and earnest appeal from us? Can we, can they, by any other means so certainly or so speedily assure these vital objects? We can succeed only by concert. It is not "Can any of us imagine better?
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Page 96 - At twelve o'clock, meridian, of the day following that on which proceedings are required to take place as aforesaid, the members of the two houses shall convene in Joint Assembly, and the Journal of each house shall then be read ; and if the same person shall have received a majority of all the votes in each house, such person shall be declared duly elected Senator...
Page 310 - ... little bothered, perhaps startled, and got up and looked in the glass, but the illusion vanished. On lying down again, I saw it a second time, plainer, if possible, than before; and then I noticed that one of the faces was a little paler, say five shades, than the other. I got up and the thing melted away and I went off, and in the excitement of the hour forgot all about it — nearly, but not quite, for the thing would once in a while come up, and give me a little pang, as though something uncomfortable...
Page 310 - I lay was a bureau with a swinging glass upon it ; and looking in that glass, I saw myself reflected nearly at full length ; but my face, I noticed, had two separate and distinct images, the tip of the nose of one being about three inches from the tip of the other. I was a little bothered, perhaps startled, and got up and looked in the glass, but the illusion vanished. On lying down again, I saw it a second time, plainer, if possible, than before ; and then I noticed that one of the faces was a little...
Page 26 - There shall yet old men and old women dwell in the streets of Jerusalem, and every man with his staff in his hand for very age. And the streets of the city shall be full of boys and girls playing in the streets thereof.
Page 53 - By that law of our nature which makes food necessary to the life of man, the effects of these two unequal powers must be kept equal. This implies a strong and constantly operating check on population from the difficulty of subsistence.