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...country should regain its former maritime prestige because of (a) our national instinct-speech of Eustis, Congressional Record, vol. 17, p 4083; (b) our geographical position-Overland Monthly...
...Better measures would result from this exchange:- Overland Monthly vol 3, p. 17; Woodrow Wilson, Congressional Government...
...effective the change proposed implies a responsible ministry:- International Review, vol. 4, pp. 248-250; vol. 7, p. 151; Overland Monthly...
...responsible ministry would revolutionize our present form of government, and would be foreign to the spirit of our constitution:- Hare's American Constitutional Law, vol. 1, pp. 175-180; Overland Monthly, vol. 9, pp. 209, 210; Freeman's Presidnntial Government...
...project of constructing a canal through the Isthmus, which should connect the Atlantic with the Pacific ocean, is an old one. The discovery of gold in California gave a new impetus to this idea; for the Union Pacific railroad had not then been built, and the journey overland was long and dangerous, while the voyage around Cape Horn was fraught with hardships. But on the breaking out of the civil war all thought of an Isthmian canal, so far as the United States were concerned had to be abandoned...