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... that whatever energy they can preserve when they emerge must be devoted to struggling for existence on provincial platforms . And yet there is work to do - pressing , vital work , which does not admit of delay ; work FOREWORD.
... that whatever energy they can preserve when they emerge must be devoted to struggling for existence on provincial platforms . And yet there is work to do - pressing , vital work , which does not admit of delay ; work FOREWORD.
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... constitution , just as the light of sun shines everywhere , unless it is shut out by a screen . So these sovereign powers do not depend for their existence upon the enumeration of them in successive clauses . A NATION AND ITS HEAD II.
... constitution , just as the light of sun shines everywhere , unless it is shut out by a screen . So these sovereign powers do not depend for their existence upon the enumeration of them in successive clauses . A NATION AND ITS HEAD II.
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... existence , the independence , and the glory of the country . . . . Every male adult in the whole country shall be compelled , without distinction of class or family , to fulfil , in accordance with the provisions of law , his duty of ...
... existence , the independence , and the glory of the country . . . . Every male adult in the whole country shall be compelled , without distinction of class or family , to fulfil , in accordance with the provisions of law , his duty of ...
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... existence ; it is the flame illuminating every heart from palace to farmer's hut , and providing the motive power for all national action . Commander Hirose , the Japanese naval hero of Port Arthur , before his death , penned the ...
... existence ; it is the flame illuminating every heart from palace to farmer's hut , and providing the motive power for all national action . Commander Hirose , the Japanese naval hero of Port Arthur , before his death , penned the ...
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... existence or well - being of the State . " With regard to matters of national defence , a single day's neglect may involve a century's regret . " In this short sentence the Emperor of Japan sums up the national policy and feeling of his ...
... existence or well - being of the State . " With regard to matters of national defence , a single day's neglect may involve a century's regret . " In this short sentence the Emperor of Japan sums up the national policy and feeling of his ...
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Page 68 - Meiji, a fundamental law of State, to exhibit the principles, by which We are to be guided in Our conduct, and to point out to what Our descendants and Our subjects and their descendants are forever to conform.
Page 43 - to leave behind him the name of a fellow who never bullied a little boy or turned his back on a big one.
Page 127 - Elementary schools are designed to give children the rudiments of moral education specially adapted to make of them good members of the community, together with such general knowledge and skill as are necessary for the practical duties of life, due attention being paid to their bodily development.
Page 445 - If these self-evident truths are kept before us, and only if they are so kept before us, we shall have a clear idea of what our foreign policy in its larger aspects should be. It is our duty to remember that a nation has no more right to do injustice to another nation, strong or weak, than an individual has to do injustice to another individual; that the same moral law applies in one case as in the other. But we must also remember that it is as much the duty of the Nation to guard its own rights...
Page 9 - The rights of sovereignty of the State, We have inherited from Our Ancestors, and We shall bequeath them to Our descendants. Neither We nor they shall in future fail to wield them, in accordance with the provisions of the Constitution hereby granted.
Page 68 - Having, by virtue of the glories of Our Ancestors, ascended the throne of a lineal succession unbroken for ages eternal; desiring to promote the welfare of, and to give development to, the moral and intellectual faculties of Our beloved subjects, the very same that have been...
Page 67 - X. Upon the demise of the Emperor, the Imperial heir shall ascend the Throne and shall acquire the Divine Treasures of the Imperial Ancestors.
Page 10 - The sovereign power of reigning over and governing the State is inherited by the Emperor from his ancestors, and by him bequeathed to his posterity. All the different legislative as well as executive powers of State, by means of which he reigns over the country and governs the people, are united in the Most...
Page 446 - ... their own peoples, more responsive to the general sentiment of humane and civilized mankind; and on the other hand that it should keep prepared, while scrupulously avoiding wrongdoing itself, to repel any wrong, and in exceptional cases to take action which in a more advanced stage of international relations would come under the head of the exercise of the international police. A great free people owes it to itself and to all mankind not to sink into helplessness before the powers of evil.
Page 9 - We now declare to respect and protect the security of the rights and of the property of Our people, and to secure to them the complete enjoyment of the same, within the extent of the provisions of the present Constitution and of the law.