Word: electives
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Americans really want less bureaucracy? If so, the best hope would be to elect Ronald Reagan as President, plus a Republican Congress. Carter may be a nice guy, but he can't change a donkey into an elephant...
...apply to him: "Then if anyone says to you, 'Lo, here is the Christ!' or 'There he is!' do not believe it. For false Christs and false prophets will arise and show great signs and wonders, so as to lead astray, if possible, even the elect" (Matthew...
...which we were born. Kings we never had among us. Nobles we never had. But Governors and councils we have always had as well as representatives. A legislature in three branches ought to be preserved, and independent judges." The New Hampshire legislators agreed -except that they decided not to elect a new Governor-and in January they drafted a constitution empowering a bicameral legislature to govern only "during the present unhappy and unnatural contest with Great Britain...
...Virginia has provided not only America's first declaration of civil rights but its first fully worked out constitution. The powerful lower house is to be elected annually by the state's property owners, who will also choose senators for a four-year term. Both houses will elect a Governor of strictly limited power. As a finishing touch, just before the delegates adjourned last week, they approved a new state seal-a female figure representing Virtue and Courage, armed with a spear, standing with one foot on the corpse of Tyranny...
...process continues. The New Jersey legislature, recalling its sharp conflicts with the now arrested Loyalist Governor William Franklin, last week adopted a new constitution that provides for a bicameral legislature to elect a relatively powerless Governor. Only 26 of the 65 legislators voted for the measure (30 abstained and 9 opposed), however, and even they insisted that the document would be null and void in case of a reconciliation with Britain...