Word: commonwealth
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Bryce American Commonwealth, Vol. I; Cooper, American Politics; Cox, Three Decades of Congress; Doyle, English in America, Vol. III; Frothingham, Rise of the Republic; Van Holst, Calhoun; Van Holst, History of the United States, Vol. VI; Hosmer, Samuel Adams; Lodge, Hamilton; Lowell, Case of Dred Scott; Snow, Guide to U. S. History; Weed, Autobiography, Vols...
...measure is unobjectionable: 1. It is constitutional; Bryce Am. Commonwealth I 370 and note; 2. It is not sectional; [a] South Carolina benefits by it more than any other state: Quar. Jour. Ec. III. 455; [b] the Kentucky legislature has passed resolutions in its favor: Cong. Record XIX. 1514, 1518; 3. It is justified by precedent: Bourne. Hist. of Surplus Rev. pp. 22, 147, passim...
Brief for the affirmative:F. R. CLOW and WARREN PHINNEY.Best general references: H. H. Darling in Harvard Monthly, Mar. 1889, pp. 21-34; T. Roosevelt's Essay in Practical Politics, pp. 72, 73; Scribner's, Vol. 2, p. 485; Bryce's American Commonwealth, ch. Lxii-lxviii; Patten in Annals of Am. Acad. of Pol. Science, July 1890; Nation...
Best general references: Smith's Constitutional Manual, p. 486; Story's Commentaries, II, 296; Curtis on the Constitution, II., 262; Bryce's American Commonwealth...
...There is no right of the minority to obstruct legislation and action under the constitution.- Story on the Constitution 835 837, 847 note. The Federalist, Nos. 22. 58; Bryce's Am. Commonwealth, pp. 222, 299; Public Opinion, February 15, 1890, Nation...