Word: voting
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...themselves in favor of a pretender to the crown, who would cast them aside as soon as he dared. The trouble with the republican party is that it is too unwieldy. It has a majority of over two hundred, and it is manifestly impossible to terrify the individuals who vote against the government measures by the argument that they will destroy the majority of the party. The various disappointed factions of the republicans join with the conservatives to overthrow the cabinet, and hence the instability of French politics...
...cannot undertake to assume as national questions all the affairs of life, but that the states must do their share in examining them. Again there is a practical difficulty which confronts us when we try to add the divorce law to our national constitution: this, that a three-fourths vote of the states is required to pass an amendment, and, since there are so many laws, it would be hard to obtain a satisfactory vote on any one of them...
...Vote on merits of question: Affirmative, 41; negative, 10. Vote on principal disputants: Affirmative, 25, negative, 22. Vote on debate as a whole: affirmative, 20; negative...
...name three practical questions for the ideals of which our conscience and our vote should be working. Immigration-the ideal is that it should be the right of every man being to dwell anywhere he will, so long as he keeps the laws of public health and peace. Freedom of suffrage-the civil and political equality of all men by virtue of their manhood. Commere-none of us know what the ideal of this is, but we are going to try to get as near the ideal of a free commercial world as we can get the majority of citizens...
...fourth College Conference meeting of the year will be held in Sever 11 this evening. Mr. George W. Cable will speak, taking for his subject, "My Conscience and My Vote." It is not only as a novelist that Mr. Cable is known to the world; for some years past he has had the enviable reputation of being a most popular lecturer before student bodies. His words of this evening will be given more in the manner of an informal talk than in that of a lecture. Everyone of us has heard so much of late as to whether our vote...