Word: citizen
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Federal Control of Elections" is treated by Speaker Reed, who points out that in federal elections the citizen votes, not as a citizen of a state, but as one of the people of the United States. He maintains that therefore such elections should be subject to the supervision of the national government...
...will ultimately all go. The thing then and now to do is, treat the Indian like any other man. The Supreme Court decided within a few days that the Indian was the ward of the nation, and their lands open to its legislation, which is simply acknowledging him a citizen. The thing to be feared now is inertia on the part of those who have been striving for these changes...
...considering how funds can be raised with the least interference with the moral and material development of the citizen, we must eliminate the objectionable methods and reduce the problem to its simplest form. The first principle is that all inquisitorial and arbitrary methods are abhorrent to the people and inconsistent with the maintenance of honor and freedom, for they foster selfishness and encourage perjury. The second principle is that no power should tax property out of its own territory and out of reach of its protection. Some property in this country is taxed both where it is and where...
...Smith then laid aside his notes and chatted in a familiar way on various subjects connected with business-the falling off of the American carrying trade and the advisability of subsidizing, for unless American ships are subsidized, it is folly to suppose that a private citizen can build boats which will carry products cheaper than subsidized English or French ships...
...Wells spoke of the unique system of American taxation, of the different phases of taxation under the Articles of Confederation, of the curious methods of taxation in England during past centuries, and instanced the poll tax as the best of personal taxes, for it impressed upon the poor citizen the fact of his being part of a civil society which needed his support...