Proposed Department of Education. Joint Hearings ... on S. 291 and H.R. 5000... and S. 2841... Feb. 24-26, 1926

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Page 286 - That the maintenance inviolate of the rights of the States, and especially the right of each State to order and control its own domestic institutions according to its own judgment exclusively...
Page 3 - Washington, a department of education, for the purpose of collecting such statistics and facts as shall show the condition and progress of education in the several States and Territories, and of diffusing such information respecting the organization and management of schools and school systems, and methods of teaching, as shall aid the people of the United States in the establishment and maintenance of efficient school systems, and otherwise promote the cause of education...
Page 377 - A parent who sends his son into the world uneducated, and without skill in any art or science, does a great injury to mankind as well as to his own family, for he defrauds the community of a useful citizen, and bequeaths to it a nuisance.
Page 319 - The education bill would (1) create a department of education with a secretary in the President's Cabinet; (2) create a national council of...
Page 2 - Department of such device as the President shall approve, and judicial notice shall be taken of the said seal.
Page 2 - In his judgment the interests of industrial peace may require it to be done ; and all duties performed and all power and authority now possessed or exercised by the head of any executive department In and over any bureau; office, officer, board, branch, or division of the public service...
Page 376 - For the laying of taxes is the power, and the general welfare the purpose for which the power is to be exercised. Congress are not to lay taxes, ad libitum, for any purpose they please : but only to pay the debts, or provide for the welfare of the Union. In like manner, they are not to do any thing they please, to provide for the general welfare, but only to lay taxes for that purpose.
Page 1 - There is hereby established at the seat of government an executive department to be known as the Department of Housing and Urban Development (hereinafter referred to as the "Department").
Page 3 - Congress and to the President stating in detail the cases it has heard, the decisions it has rendered, the names, salaries, and duties of all employees and...
Page 376 - In like manner, they are not to do anything they please to provide for the general welfare, but only to lay taxes for that purpose. To consider the latter phrase, not as describing the purpose of the first, but as giving a distinct and independent power to do any act they please, which might be for the good of the Union, would render all the preceding and subsequent enumerations of power completely useless. It would reduce the whole instrument to a single phrase, that of instituting a Congress with...

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