Pacific Islands Pilot, Volume 1J.D. Potter, 1898 - Pilot guides |
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Page 1
... conditions are controlled . Laws may be passed and repealed in quick succession ; indi- viduals may rise to positions of commanding influence , only to be swept off in a moment into political oblivion , by a sudden turn of party tide ...
... conditions are controlled . Laws may be passed and repealed in quick succession ; indi- viduals may rise to positions of commanding influence , only to be swept off in a moment into political oblivion , by a sudden turn of party tide ...
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... conditions of life . Think of the United States as they were in 1787 , occupying a narrow strip of the Atlantic sea - coast ; engaged only in agricul- ture ; with no city larger than Utica or Savannah now is ; with capital still so far ...
... conditions of life . Think of the United States as they were in 1787 , occupying a narrow strip of the Atlantic sea - coast ; engaged only in agricul- ture ; with no city larger than Utica or Savannah now is ; with capital still so far ...
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... conditions was necessary . President Lincoln and after him President Johnson proposed to accomplish it by the exercise of the execu tive power . Temporary governments were set up under mili tary authority . Executive orders were issued ...
... conditions was necessary . President Lincoln and after him President Johnson proposed to accomplish it by the exercise of the execu tive power . Temporary governments were set up under mili tary authority . Executive orders were issued ...
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... condition of so many patent voting machines . They are a survival of the unfittest . Human gov . ernment , like natural government , is administered , in the long run , on the principle of natural selection ; but we are more apt to ...
... condition of so many patent voting machines . They are a survival of the unfittest . Human gov . ernment , like natural government , is administered , in the long run , on the principle of natural selection ; but we are more apt to ...
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... condition of suffrage . It is no new doctrine . In the North there is more than one State in which such has been the law for nearly half a century . The great change wrought by the fourteenth amendment has been to concede and perpetuate ...
... condition of suffrage . It is no new doctrine . In the North there is more than one State in which such has been the law for nearly half a century . The great change wrought by the fourteenth amendment has been to concede and perpetuate ...
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Page 156 - The President is authorized to prescribe such regulations for the admission of persons into the civil service of the United States as may best promote the efficiency thereof, and ascertain the fitness of each candidate in respect to age, health, character, knowledge, and ability for the branch of service into which he seeks to enter...
Page 23 - To whom I answered, It is not the manner of the Romans to deliver any man to die, before that he which is accused have the accusers face to face, and have license to answer for himself concerning the crime laid against him...
Page 36 - The movement of the progressive societies has been uniform in one respect. Through all its course it has been distinguished by the gradual dissolution of family dependency and the growth of individual obligation in its place. The Individual is steadily substituted for the Family, as the unit of which civil laws take account.
Page 106 - ... in the service of any foreign prince or state, or of any colony, district, or people, to cruise or commit hostilities against the subjects, citizens, or property of any foreign prince or state, or any colony, district, or people, with whom the United States are at peace...
Page 37 - Status, agreeably with the usage of the best writers, to signify these personal conditions only, and avoid applying the term to such conditions as are the immediate or remote result of agreement, we may say that the movement of the progressive societies has hitherto been a movement from Status to Contract.
Page 82 - No one shall run on the Sabbath day, or walk in his garden or elsewhere, except reverently to and from meeting. No one shall travel, cook victuals, make beds, sweep house, cut hair, or shave on the Sabbath day.
Page 106 - People, or of any Person or Persons exercising or assuming to exercise the Powers of Government in or over any Foreign Country, Colony, Province, or part of any Province or People...
Page 37 - The word Status may be usefully employed to construct a formula expressing the law of progress thus indicated, which, whatever be its value, seems to me to be sufficiently ascertained. .All the forms of Status taken notice of in the Law of Persons were derived from, and to some extent are still coloured by, the powers and privileges anciently residing in the Family.
Page 167 - And, as incident to this, is the right to labor or employ labor, make contracts in respect thereto upon such terms as may be agreed upon by the parties...
Page 272 - ... but the repeal of existing laws or modifications thereof embraced in this act shall not affect any act done, or any right accruing or accrued, or any suit or proceeding had or commenced in any civil cause...