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... senate of the United States , or an auditorium full of people , knowledge of the use and application of the rules of argumentation , and good training in the art of debate is a most valuable asset . The business world , the professional ...
... senate of the United States , or an auditorium full of people , knowledge of the use and application of the rules of argumentation , and good training in the art of debate is a most valuable asset . The business world , the professional ...
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... Senators . E. Prohibition . F. Reciprocity . 3. Apply the appropriate rules to each of the following proposi- tions and point out where each is defective . Resolved , that- A. We derive more pleasure from hope than from memory . B. Wit ...
... Senators . E. Prohibition . F. Reciprocity . 3. Apply the appropriate rules to each of the following proposi- tions and point out where each is defective . Resolved , that- A. We derive more pleasure from hope than from memory . B. Wit ...
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... senators should be elected by direct vote of the people . ( 5 ) National party lines should be discarded in municipal elections . ( 6 ) The membership of the national House of Representa- tives should be considerably reduced . 3. Define ...
... senators should be elected by direct vote of the people . ( 5 ) National party lines should be discarded in municipal elections . ( 6 ) The membership of the national House of Representa- tives should be considerably reduced . 3. Define ...
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... Senator Bur- ton as saying so - and - so which is found in such a volume and on such a page of the Congressional Record . With this cau- tion in mind , viz . , that it is the man who is quoted and not the mere fact of its appearance in ...
... Senator Bur- ton as saying so - and - so which is found in such a volume and on such a page of the Congressional Record . With this cau- tion in mind , viz . , that it is the man who is quoted and not the mere fact of its appearance in ...
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... Senate Miscellaneous , ( 3 ) Senate Reports ( of committees ) ( 4 ) House Executive Documents , ( 5 ) House Miscellaneous , ( 6 ) House Reports ( of committees ) . A Document Index for each session of Congress will be found in ...
... Senate Miscellaneous , ( 3 ) Senate Reports ( of committees ) ( 4 ) House Executive Documents , ( 5 ) House Miscellaneous , ( 6 ) House Reports ( of committees ) . A Document Index for each session of Congress will be found in ...
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Page 99 - A house divided against itself cannot stand." I believe this Government cannot endure permanently half slave and half free. I do not expect the Union to be dissolved, I do not expect the house to fall, but I do expect it will cease to be divided. It will become all one thing, or all the other. Either the opponents of slavery will arrest the further spread of it, and place it where the public mind shall rest in the belief that it is in the course of ultimate extinction; or its advocates will push...
Page 291 - This they said and this they meant. They did not mean to assert the obvious untruth, that all were then actually enjoying that equality, nor yet that they were about to confer it immediately upon them. In fact, they had no power to confer such a boon. They meant simply to declare the right, so that the enforcement of it might follow as fast as circumstances should permit.
Page 100 - We are now far into the fifth year since a policy was initiated with the avowed object and confident promise of putting an end to slavery agitation. Under the operation of that policy, that agitation has not only not ceased, but has constantly augmented. In my opinion, it will not cease until a crisis shall have been reached and passed. "A house divided against itself cannot stand.
Page 111 - When public bodies are to be addressed on momentous occasions, when great interests are at stake, and strong passions excited, nothing is valuable in speech farther than it is connected with high intellectual and moral endowments. Clearness, force and earnestness, are the qualities which produce conviction. True eloquence, indeed, does not consist in speech.
Page 221 - Permit me, Sir, to add another circumstance in our colonies, which contributes no mean part towards the growth and effect of this untractable spirit. I mean their education. In no country perhaps in the world is the law so general a study.
Page 200 - Now, as we have already said in an earlier part of this opinion, upon a different point, the right of property in a slave is distinctly and expressly affirmed in the Constitution.
Page 266 - If, then, the removal of the causes of this spirit of American liberty be for the greater part, or rather entirely, impracticable; if the ideas of criminal process be inapplicable, or, if applicable, are in the highest degree inexpedient; what way yet remains? No way is open but the third and last^-to comply with the American spirit as necessary; or, if you please, to submit to it as a necessary evil.
Page 113 - ... piece in — in such a case we find it impossible not to believe that Stephen and Franklin and Roger and James all understood one another from the beginning, and all worked upon a common plan or draft drawn up before the first blow was struck. It should not be overlooked that by the Nebraska Bill the people of a State as well as Territory were to be left " perfectly free," "subject only to the Constitution.
Page 117 - Then, Sir, from these six capital sources: of descent, of form of government, of religion in the northern provinces, of manners in the southern, of education, of the' remoteness of situation from the first mover of government — from all these causes a fierce spirit of liberty has grown up.
Page 113 - But you will not abide the election of a Republican President! In that supposed event, you say, you will destroy the Union; and then, you say, the great crime of having destroyed it will be upon us! That is cool. A highwayman holds a pistol to my ear, and mutters through his teeth, "Stand and deliver, or I shall kill you, and then you will be a murderer!