The Footprints of Time: And a Complete Analysis of Our American System of Government |
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... and beneath the primeval forests , grop- ing his way by strong instincts which soon began to dawn into intelligence of the lowest and most material kind . How long he led a purely animal life we have no means GRADUAL DEVELOPMENT . 39.
... and beneath the primeval forests , grop- ing his way by strong instincts which soon began to dawn into intelligence of the lowest and most material kind . How long he led a purely animal life we have no means GRADUAL DEVELOPMENT . 39.
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... soon developed the germs of the family and of language . Childhood is comparatively long , and many generations must have passed before language could have acquired the distinctness and fixity that permitted it to come down through so ...
... soon developed the germs of the family and of language . Childhood is comparatively long , and many generations must have passed before language could have acquired the distinctness and fixity that permitted it to come down through so ...
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... soon formed in China which became considerably civilized and fairly well organized the earliest of all . Their national tradi- tions and some of their recorded dates claim a vast antiquity . It is not yet determined by scholars how much ...
... soon formed in China which became considerably civilized and fairly well organized the earliest of all . Their national tradi- tions and some of their recorded dates claim a vast antiquity . It is not yet determined by scholars how much ...
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... unknown being with a vary- ing disposition like his own . His wants , his hopes and fears , and his sense of helplessness soon led him to seek to propitiate nature . these unknown powers . The first religion , 44 THE FOOTPRINTS OF TIME .
... unknown being with a vary- ing disposition like his own . His wants , his hopes and fears , and his sense of helplessness soon led him to seek to propitiate nature . these unknown powers . The first religion , 44 THE FOOTPRINTS OF TIME .
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... soon raised the priesthood into an institution much revered . It acquired great influence , and afforded an opening to ambition only inferior to that of the chief or king . The two commonly united for mutual support , and thus mankind ...
... soon raised the priesthood into an institution much revered . It acquired great influence , and afforded an opening to ambition only inferior to that of the chief or king . The two commonly united for mutual support , and thus mankind ...
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Page 188 - ... to build and equip a navy; to agree upon the number of land forces, and to make requisitions from each state for its quota, in proportion to the number of white inhabitants In such state...
Page 183 - No state shall be represented in congress by less than two, nor by more than seven members; and no person shall be capable of being a delegate for more than three years in any term of six years; nor shall any person, being a delegate, be capable of holding any office under the United States, for which he, or another for his benefit, receives any salary, fees, or emolument of any kind.
Page 182 - ... The better to secure and perpetuate mutual friendship and intercourse among the people of the different States in this union, the free inhabitants of each of these States (paupers, vagabonds and fugitives from justice excepted) shall be entitled to all privileges and immunities of free citizens in the several States, and the people of each state shall have free ingress and egress to and from any other State, and shall enjoy therein all the privileges of trade and commerce, subject to the same...
Page 181 - Articles of Confederation and Perpetual Union between the States of New Hampshire, Massachusetts Bay, Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, Connecticut, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina and Georgia. ARTICLE 1. The style of this Confederacy shall be " The United States of America.
Page 208 - The times, places, and manner of holding elections for Senators and Representatives shall be prescribed in each State by the Legislature thereof; but the Congress may at any time by law make or alter such regulations, except as to the places of choosing Senators. The Congress shall assemble at least once in every year, and such meeting shall be on the first Monday in December, unless they shall by law appoint a different day. Sec. 5. Each house shall be the judge of the election, returns, and qualifications...
Page 177 - He has refused, for a long time after such dissolutions, to cause others to be elected; whereby the legislative powers, incapable of annihilation, have returned to the people at large for their exercise; the State remaining, in the meantime, exposed to all the danger of invasion from without, and convulsions within.
Page 575 - I, AB, do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I have never voluntarily borne arms against the United States since I have been a citizen thereof; that I have voluntarily given no aid, countenance, counsel, or encouragement to persons engaged in armed hostility thereto; that I have neither sought nor accepted nor attempted to exercise the functions of any office whatever, under any authority or pretended authority in hostility to the United States...
Page 183 - No state without the Consent of the united states in congress assembled, shall send any embassy to, or receive any embassy from, or 'enter into any conference, agreement, alliance or treaty with any King prince or state...
Page 184 - States in congress assembled, for the defence of such State or its trade; nor shall any body of forces be kept up by any State in time of peace, except such number only as, in the judgment of the United States in congress assembled, shall be deemed requisite to garrison the forts necessary for the defence of such State...
Page 187 - States, whose jurisdictions, as they may respect such lands and the States which passed such grants, are adjusted, the said grants, or either of them, being at the same time claimed to have originated antecedent to such settlement of jurisdiction, shall, on the petition of either party to the Congress of the United States, be finally determined, as near as may be. In the same manner as is before prescribed for deciding disputes respecting territorial jurisdiction between different States.