Word: limitations
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...support to the limit the budget-making power of the Government...
Addresses. Mr. Saner, of Dallas: Denounced the growing tendency in Congress toward the enactment of sumptuary laws, as striking at the fundamentals of constitutional government (with particularly strong reference to Senator LaFollette's amendment to limit the power of the U. S. Supreme Court.) Likened the U. S. Government to the planetary system, wherein balancing of forces prevents chaos...
...State of Georgia has neither the right nor the power to give to Congress the power to limit, regulate or prohibit the labor of Georgians under 18 years of age, or of any age, because such power reestablishes in America a system of slavery with public ownership substituted for private ownership, and would place Congress in control of every home in the land between parent and child. State Representative McCorsey said much the same thing in more vigorous idiom: "I don't want any more monkeying with the buzz-saw by that bunch in Washington...
Muscle Shoals. Use of the plant at once for manufacture of nitrates needed for munitions of war and especially for production of cheaper and higher grade fertiliser, without limit...
Entrance into the World Court, as proposed by President Coolidge. Refusal to enter the League of Nations. A conference, when conditions in Europe are favorable, to limit land forces, submarines, poison...