Word: statesmen
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...novelist, delivered the third lecture in aid of the Radcliffe Scholarship fund in Sanders Theatre last evening. Taking for his subject, "Pope Leo XIII in the Vatican," he sketched the personality of the Pope, his life, and his achievements. He characterized Leo XIII as one of the great statesmen and scholars of the age, a man who has raised the church to her present high position in large measure by his own greatness...
...result was the immediate loss of much Anglo-Saxon blood. Again, Turgot's efforts to bring about a gradual development of political liberty in France were of no avail against the ultra-conservatives and the Revolution followed. Even in the case of our Civil War, Henry Clay and other statesmen saw it was inevitable that slavery and freedom must conflict many years before the crisis came and they sought to avoid it. But revolution sits North and South opposed them and war followed...
...responsibility in all departments of government. 1. Executive and. House frequently of two political parties. 2. Separation of executive and legislative departments. a. Cabinet cannot meet emergencies-financial deficits, etc. b. Departments can obtain legislation only through indirect means-compromises and inducements. C. Leads to an inferior class of statesmen. 1. Statesmanship not a career, as in England. D. Change has already been found necessary. x. Legislative and executive departments have a semi-connection. 1. Consultations and agreements take place between secretaries and leaders in the Houses. y. Important party bills framed in the departments...
Election to third term would not be advisable. I. It is contrary to the unwritten principles of our government. A. Those principles, as understood by the constitutional convention and laid down by our great statesmen and presidents, are opposed to third terms. B. It is contrary to the will of the people. (1) On adopting the constitution New York declared against third terms. (2) Popular expression at end of Jefferson's second term was against it. (3) The fear of a third term for Grant in '75 caused a great popular outcry. (4) Grant's defeat for the nomination...
...based? Would the decisions of this court be any more likely to be enforced than now? No. We have now an agreement to abide by decisions in particular cases. Under their system we would have a vague agreement to abide by decisions at some future time which statesmen would find easy to lay aside when they desired. Your step is not only unnecessary, it is unsafe...