First Lessons in Civil Government: Including a Comprehensive View of the Government of the State of Ohio, and an Abstract of the Laws, Showing the Rights, Duties, and Responsibilities of Citizens in the Civil and Domestic Relations, with an Outline of the Government of the United States : Adapted to the Capacities of Children and Youth, and Designed for Families and SchoolsM.C. Younglove, 1846 - 224 pages |
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... respective territories , which resulted in war . By the treaty of peace made be- tween the two governments , ( 1763 , ) France ceded to Great Britain all her possessions in North America east of the Mississippi river . 4. During the war ...
... respective territories , which resulted in war . By the treaty of peace made be- tween the two governments , ( 1763 , ) France ceded to Great Britain all her possessions in North America east of the Mississippi river . 4. During the war ...
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... respective bodies serve ? 12. What power had the governor in making laws ? 13. What is said of a di- vision of the territory ? In what year was Ohio admitted into the Union ? 1. By whom are constitutions established in the United States ...
... respective bodies serve ? 12. What power had the governor in making laws ? 13. What is said of a di- vision of the territory ? In what year was Ohio admitted into the Union ? 1. By whom are constitutions established in the United States ...
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... respective townships , for township purposes , and for the support of the poor in the town- ships . 8. The county auditor , having been instructed by the state auditor how much per cent . to levy for state purposes ; by the county ...
... respective townships , for township purposes , and for the support of the poor in the town- ships . 8. The county auditor , having been instructed by the state auditor how much per cent . to levy for state purposes ; by the county ...
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... respective trades , are alone responsible . 4. One partner cannot bring a new partner into the firm , without the consent of all the others . If , therefore , a part- ner should desire to sell his interest to some other person , who is ...
... respective trades , are alone responsible . 4. One partner cannot bring a new partner into the firm , without the consent of all the others . If , therefore , a part- ner should desire to sell his interest to some other person , who is ...
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... respective state governments only . They were not yet incorporated into one nation for the purpose of government , as now , under a constitution . Hence , they were not properly citizens of the United States . 6. To provide effectually ...
... respective state governments only . They were not yet incorporated into one nation for the purpose of government , as now , under a constitution . Hence , they were not properly citizens of the United States . 6. To provide effectually ...
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Page 212 - Against the insidious wiles of foreign influence, (I conjure you to believe me, fellow-citizens,) the jealousy of a free people ought to be constantly awake ; since history and experience prove that foreign influence is one of the most baneful foes of republican government.
Page 210 - And let us with caution indulge the supposition that morality can be maintained without religion. Whatever may be conceded to the influence of refined education on minds of peculiar structure, reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principle.
Page 208 - This spirit, unfortunately, is inseparable from our nature, having its root in the strongest passions of the human mind. It exists under different shapes in all governments, more or less stifled, controlled, or repressed ; but in those of the popular form it is seen in its greatest rankness, and is truly their worst enemy.
Page 209 - It serves always to distract the public councils, and enfeeble the public administration. It agitates the community with ill-founded jealousies and false alarms; kindles the animosity of one part against another ; foments, occasionally, riot and insurrection.
Page 211 - So, likewise, a passionate attachment of one nation for another produces a variety of evils. Sympathy for the favorite nation facilitating the illusion of an imaginary common interest in cases where no real common interest exists, and infusing into one the enmities of the other, betrays the former into a participation in the quarrels and wars of the latter, without adequate inducement or justification.
Page 215 - Though, in reviewing the incidents of my administration, I am unconscious of intentional error, I am nevertheless too sensible of my defects, not to think it probable that I may have committed many errors. Whatever they may be, I fervently beseech the Almighty to avert or mitigate the evils to which they may .tend.
Page 204 - Here, perhaps, I ought to stop. But a solicitude for your welfare, which cannot end but with my life, and the apprehension of danger, natural to that solicitude, urge me, on an occasion like the present, to offer to your solemn contemplation...
Page 210 - Let it simply be asked, where is the security for property, for reputation, for life, if the sense of religious obligation desert the oaths which are the instruments of investigation in courts of justice ? And let us with caution indulge the supposition, that morality can be maintained without religion.
Page 176 - The judges of the Supreme Court, and the presidents of the courts of common pleas, shall, at stated times, receive for their services an adequate compensation, to be fixed by law, which shall not be diminished during their continuance in office...
Page 202 - I beg you at the same time to do me the justice to be assured, that this .resolution has not been taken without a strict regard to all the considerations appertaining to the relation which binds a dutiful citizen to his country...