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...e entered into a holy alliance to exorcise this spectre: Pope and Czar, Metternich and Guizot, French Radicals and German police- spies. Where is the party in opposition that has not been decried as Communistic by its opponents in power? Where the Opposition that has not hurled back the branding reproach of Communism, against the more advanced opposition parties, as well a...

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...2 Bin Ladin?s Appeal in the Islamic World 48 2.3 The Rise of Bin Ladin and al Qaeda (1988?1992) 55 2.4 Building an Organization, Declaring War on the United States (1992?1996) 59 2.5 Al Qaeda?s Renewal in Afghanistan (1996?1998) 63 3. COUNTERTERRORISM EVOLVES 71 3.1 From the Old Terrorism to the New: The First World Trade Center Bombing 71 3.2 Adaptation?and Nonadaptation?...

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Excerpt: North America: Volume Two by Anthony Trollope.

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...ACK TO BOSTON.................................................................................................................... 164 CHAPTER IX: THE CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED STATES .................................................................... 185 CHAPTER X: THE GOVERNMENT ...............................................................................................

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...nic Classics Series Publication Democracy in America, Volumes One and Two by Alexis de Tocqueville, trans. Henry Reeve is a publication of the Pennsy... ...e eleven years that separated the Declaration of the In- dependence of the United States from the completion of that act in the ordination of our writ... ...n years that separated the Declaration of the In- dependence of the United States from the completion of that act in the ordination of our written Con... ...ed States from the completion of that act in the ordination of our written Constitution, the great minds of America were bent upon the study of the pr... ...onfederation, and they were, there- fore, practical and thorough. When the Constitution was thus perfected and established, a new form of government w... ...on, all of whom were young men, in building upon the Inde- pendence of the United States that wisest and best plan of general government that was ever... ... of whom were young men, in building upon the Inde- pendence of the United States that wisest and best plan of general government that was ever devise... ...ghts of citizenship, including the right of suffrage. This was a political party movement, intended to be radical and revolu- tionary, but it will, ul... ...ture to the level of the lowest, are no longer considered. The violence of party spirit has been mitigated, and the judg- ment of the wise is not subo...

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...: The third section of the ?Act further to promote the efficiency of the Navy,? approved 21st of December, 1861, provides: ?That the President of the United States by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, shall have the authority to detail from the retired list of the navy for the command of squadrons and single ships such officers as he may believe that the good ...

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...vy,” approved 21st of December, 1861, provides: “That the President of the United States by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, shall have ... ...proved 21st of December, 1861, provides: “That the President of the United States by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, shall have the aut... ...21st of December, 1861, provides: “That the President of the United States by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, shall have the authority ... ...nd such officers may, if upon the recommendation of the Presi- dent of the United States they shall receive a vote of thanks of Congress for their ser... ... officers may, if upon the recommendation of the Presi- dent of the United States they shall receive a vote of thanks of Congress for their services a... ...yet existing in the United States and aims at the overthrow of the Federal Constitution and the Union, was clandestinely prepared during the Winter of... ... ruin or whether, availing myself of the broader pow- ers conferred by the Constitution in cases of insurrection, I would make an effort to save it, w... ... nec- essary to ascertain the amount of indemnification due to the injured party. The United States consul-general at Havana was consequently instruct... ...as directed, in view of the occupation of the capital by the revolutionary party and of the uncertainty of the civil war, not to present his credentia...

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...Excerpt: Dombey sat in the corner of the darkened room in the great arm-chair by the bedside, and Son lay tucked up warm in a little basket bedstead, carefully disposed on a low settee immediately in front of the fire and close to it, as if his constitution were analogous to that of a muffin, and it wa...

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...letter of eight closely written foolscap pages. The other two are written by a differ- ent person, at St. Joseph, Mo., and of the dates, respectivel... ...THE HOUSE. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, that, before the first meet... ...SE. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, that, before the first meeting of ... ...show that they were regularly elected in accordance with the laws of their States respec- tively, or the laws of the United States. Approved March 3, ... ...ccordance with the laws of their States respec- tively, or the laws of the United States. Approved March 3, 1863. 7 The Writings of Abraham Lincoln: ... ...NT OF THE UNITED STA TES OF AMERICA: A Proclamation. Whereas in and by the Constitution of the United States it is provided that the President “shall ... ...ty God, that I will henceforth faithfully support, protect, and defend the Constitution of the United States and the Union of the States thereunder; a... ... nor involuntary servitude, except in the punishment of crimes whereof the party shall have been duly convicted; that the General Assembly may make su... ...to do the work over accord- ing to the law, in presence of the complaining party, and thereby to correct anything which might be found amiss. The com...

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...h as I learn, talking largely about it. If they do so, it can only be done by carrying the Fillmore men of 1856 very differently from what they seem t... ...en of 1856 very differently from what they seem to [be] going in the other party. Below is the vote of 1856, in your district: Counties. Counties. Bu... ...dvocates will push it forward till it shall become alike lawful in all the States, old as well as new, North as well as South.” Judge Douglas makes us... ...e Douglas, and such were the opinions of the leading men of the Democratic Party. Even as late as the spring of 1856 Mr. Buchanan said, a short time s... ... what a narrow escape Kansas had from being admitted into the Union with a constitution that was detested by ninety-nine hundredths of her citizens. D... ...as settled? An election was held in Kansas in the month of August, and the constitution which was submitted to the people was voted down by a large ma... ...question is settled. He says the bill he introduced into the Senate of the United States on the 4th day of January, 1854, settled the slavery question... ...n is settled. He says the bill he introduced into the Senate of the United States on the 4th day of January, 1854, settled the slavery question foreve... ...s that in that year there were over four hundred thousand mulattoes in the United States. Now let us take what is called an Abolition State—the Republ...

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...WELLS A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication A Modern Utopia by H. G. Wells is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This ... ...rwin quickened the thought of the world. Those were all perfect and static States, a balance of happi- ness won for ever against the forces of unrest ... ...ossible and pu- berty correspondingly retarded, and by wise regulation the statesmen of Utopia will constantly adjust and readjust regu- lations and t... ...its of energy, the grand total of work upon which the social fabric of the United States or England rests, it would be found that a vastly preponderat... ...e newest devices—argued about the good of medicine men. “The natural human constitution,” said the blond-haired man, “is perfectly simple, with one si... ...before. But we may now come to the sexual aspects of the modern ideal of a constitution of society in which, for all purposes of the individual, women... ... civilised State—even that compendium of old- fashioned Individualism, the United States of America—is now disposed to admit the necessity of that pro... ...o forth. Possibly it might be advisable to have a little ceremony for each party, for each in the absence of the other, in which this record could be ... ...here and there for support and 161 H G Wells the structural elements of a party. Still, the idea of a compre- hensive movement of disillusioned and i...

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...INDEX ABBAYE, massacres, Jourgniac, Sicard, and Maton?s account of. ACCEPTATION, grande, by Louis XVI. AGOUST, Captain d?, seizes two Parlementeers. AIGUILLON, d?, at Quiberon, account of, in favour, at death of Louis XV. AINTRIGUES, Count d?. ALTAR of Fatherland in Champ-de-Mars, scene at, christening at....

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...ls A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION The World Set Free by H. G. Wells is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This ... ...for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The World Set Free by H. G. Wells, the Pennsylvania State University, Electronic Classics Seri... ...t because of the develop- ment of scientific knowledge, separate sovereign states and separate sovereign empires are no longer possible in the world, ... ...ave supposed a sort of epidemic of sanity to break out among the rulers of states and the leaders of mankind. I have represented the native common sen... ... land a poor little League of (Allied) Nations (excluding the 5 H G Wells United States, Russia, and most of the ‘subject peoples’ of the world), mee... ...llows, come and scrap the mint!’ In the year 1955 the suicide rate for the United States of America quadrupled any previous record. There was an enor-... ...patience of the American people with the monstrous and socially paralysing party systems that had sprung out of their absurd electoral arrangements, l... ... that they were inventing a new government for the world. They discussed a constitution. But there were mat- ters needing attention too urgently to wa... ...y to wait for any constitu- tion. They attended to these incidentally. The constitution it was that waited. It was presently found convenient to keep ...

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...ey A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Village Rector by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Katharine Prescott Wormeley is a publication of... ...ntly at Veronique as she returned to her seat from the altar where she had united herself with God,—a moment when she appeared to all the parish in he... ... different animosities Veronique had innocently acquired, the virulence of party feeling now added its periodical exasperation. But as this ostracism ... ...f all chance of the episcopate. 38 The Village Rector This eminent priest united in himself great Christian mod- esty and a noble character. Without ... ... tones which be- token a disturbance of the liver,—that malady of vigorous constitutions, or of persons whose soul is distressed and whose affections ... ...but not of the murders, which were evidently (no matter who was the guilty party) the result of two unexpected struggles. Success, the doctor said, wa... ...iest-party (a term invented by Montlosier, a royalist who went over to the constitutionals, and was dragged by them far beyond his wishes),—that the p... ...magnificent phase of public works, which is destined to change the face of States and nations, to double human life, and modify the laws of space and ... ...ble human life, and modify the laws of space and time. Belgium, the United States of America, England, none of whom have an Ecole Polytechnique, will ...

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... The... ...otel-advertisement is personally addressed to me, no hotel-room tapestried with great-coats and railway wrappers is set apart for me, no house of publ... ... the Charles Dickens 42 male sex, in a checked shirt and without a coat, reading a newspaper; now, it was a man crimp and a woman crimp, who always i... ... on the lowest terms per head, is a fraudulent bankrupt, redeeming his contract with the stale stock from his window—that, for some unexplained reason... ...cy that I am ‘breaking up’ again, at the evening conversazione at school, charged two-and-sixpence in the half-year’s bill; or breaking down again at ... ...al drunkards brought as low as these men have been, could not recover under care and food, as the great majority of these men are recovering. They wou... ...oods and small shops, is the fancy of a humble artist, as exemplified in two portraits representing Mr. Thomas Sayers, of Great Brit- ain, and Mr. Joh... ...ystem of for- tifications. Fifty times a day, I got down to harangue an in- furiated soldiery about the Bottle. Through the filthy degra- dation of th... ...t be a dark bit of cliff, pier, or bulkbead—clutches that instrument with a desperate grasp, that will not relax until he lands at Calais. Is there an...

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...Typee A Romance of the South Seas By Herman Melville A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION Typ... ...on. His son, Major Thomas Melville, was a leader in the famous ‘Boston Tea Party’ of 1773 and afterwards became an officer in the Continental Army. He... ...ur months, employed as a clerk. He joined the crew of the American frigate United States, which reached Boston, stopping on the way at one of the Peru... ...hs, employed as a clerk. He joined the crew of the American frigate United States, which reached Boston, stopping on the way at one of the Peruvian po... ...on agent of an American publisher, for its simultaneous publication in the United States. I understand that Murray did not then publish fiction. At an... ...t of an American publisher, for its simultaneous publication in the United States. I understand that Murray did not then publish fiction. At any rate,... ...er I will say was vessel carried before by such a dashing and irresistible party of boarders! The ship taken, we could not do otherwise than yield our... ...he interest- ing babes in the wood. Poor little sufferers!—no wonder their constitutions broke down under the hardships to which they were exposed. Du... ...ortion of their time in the arms of Somnus. The na- tive strength of their constitution is no way shown more emphatically than in the quantity of slee...