Word: congress
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Question: Resolved, "That Representatives in Congress and in state legislatures should vote according to wishes of their constituents rather than according to their own conviction...
...subject for the next debate of the Harvard Union will be : "Resolved, That representatives in Congress and in the Legislature should vote according to the wishes of their constituents, rather than in accordance with their own convictions...
...were leaders at that time, Of course "Our beloved George" stands alone; he is an accepted exception. Several generations have already decided that no amount of knowledge could have improved his natural greatness. Still, among those who made it possible for Washington to have a congress on which to call for supplies; who furnished his army with generals, and his troops with money, there many who called Harvard their alma mater. Preceding the revolution, however, were those who developed the idea of a republic and who first proclaimed that "All men are created free and equal." The most notable...
...adopted verbatim by more than forty towns. He was one of the committee of Naval Affairs who drew up the rules and regulations which are the basis of our present naval code, and was the ablest advocate of the Declaration of Independence during the three days debate in congress. He was supposed to have greatly hastened business by the unparalleled oratorical outburst of; "Sink or swim, live or die, survive or perish, I give my heart and my hand to this vote...
...Wednesday's HERALD-CRIMSON, there is a letter signed "Graduate" urging the formation of a Harvard congress or mock parliament,-an assembly of students for the discussion of political subjects with a view towards benefiting themselves, and making themselves more suited for a political career. The writer does not seem aware that there was once here a Harvard legislature, the aims of which were those in great measure of the congress, which he is so anxious to see formed, and that this legislature or congress failed miserably...