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The office of President has charms and attractions which operate as powerful incentives to this passion . The first and most natural exertion of a vast patronage is directed toward the security of a new election .
The office of President has charms and attractions which operate as powerful incentives to this passion . The first and most natural exertion of a vast patronage is directed toward the security of a new election .
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A President whose political career is limited to a single election may find no other interest than will be promoted by making it glorious to himself , and beneficial to his country . But the hope of reëlection is prolific of temptations ...
A President whose political career is limited to a single election may find no other interest than will be promoted by making it glorious to himself , and beneficial to his country . But the hope of reëlection is prolific of temptations ...
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would be chosen President in the fall election and that he would uphold the cause of his section . Indeed , South Carolina and Georgia , after recording their formal protests against the tariff in the Senate , also decided to cease ...
would be chosen President in the fall election and that he would uphold the cause of his section . Indeed , South Carolina and Georgia , after recording their formal protests against the tariff in the Senate , also decided to cease ...
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... be left to four and twenty popular bodies , each at liberty to decide for itself and none bound to respect the decisions of others ; and each at liberty , too , to give a new construction on every new election of its own members ?
... be left to four and twenty popular bodies , each at liberty to decide for itself and none bound to respect the decisions of others ; and each at liberty , too , to give a new construction on every new election of its own members ?
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Secondly , they have reposed their trust in the efficacy of frequent elections , and in their own power to remove their own servants and agents , whenever they see cause . Thirdly , they have reposed their trust in the judicial power ...
Secondly , they have reposed their trust in the efficacy of frequent elections , and in their own power to remove their own servants and agents , whenever they see cause . Thirdly , they have reposed their trust in the judicial power ...
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| Title | Great Debates in American History: State rights (1798-1861); slavery (1858-1861) Volume 5 of Great Debates in American History: From the Debates in the British Parliament on the Colonial Stamp Act (1764-1765) to the Debates in Congress at the Close of the Taft Administration (1912-1913), Marion Mills Miller |
| Editor | Marion Mills Miller |
| Contributors | United States. Congress, Great Britain. Parliament |
| Publisher | Current Literature Publishing Company, 1913 |
| Original from | the University of California |
| Digitized | 11 Oct 2010 |
| ISBN | 0810803860, 9780810803862 |
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