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Page 699
... Congress ; and the first act of his administration was , to call a special session of Congress , for their deliberation and action upon the measures indispensably necessary for relief to the public distress , and to retrieve the ...
... Congress ; and the first act of his administration was , to call a special session of Congress , for their deliberation and action upon the measures indispensably necessary for relief to the public distress , and to retrieve the ...
Page 858
... Congress of the Republic and served as such before the act of annexation took place . In both the Congress and convention of Texas which gave their assent to the terms of annexation to the United States proposed by our Congress were ...
... Congress of the Republic and served as such before the act of annexation took place . In both the Congress and convention of Texas which gave their assent to the terms of annexation to the United States proposed by our Congress were ...
Page 1031
... Congress rather than his government in Louisiana and Arkansas . That judgment of Congress which the President defies was the exercise of an authority exclusively vested in Congress by the Constitution to determine what is the ...
... Congress rather than his government in Louisiana and Arkansas . That judgment of Congress which the President defies was the exercise of an authority exclusively vested in Congress by the Constitution to determine what is the ...
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The Ambivalence of the Concept of Party | 597 |
The Formative Period | 603 |
In Search of Victory | 615 |
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