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...he accidents of life, were pressed Into one service, busy with one work. The Senate was heart stricken, not a voice Uplifted, none to oppose or mitiga... ... past aims. 575 The same belief I nevertheless retained: The language of the Senate, and the acts And public measures of the Government, Though both o...

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...tive Power of the State Division of the Legislative Body into two Houses – Senate – House of Representatives – Different functions of these two Bodies... ...sted in two assemblies, the first of which generally bears the name of the Senate. The Senate is commonly a legislative body; but it sometimes becomes... ...of State. See Laws of Massachusetts, vol. i. p. 367. *In Massachusetts the Senate is not invested with any ad- ministrative functions. 102 Democracy ... ...he judicial power inasmuch as it impeaches public functionaries before the Senate. The members of the two Houses are nearly every- where subject to th... ... only difference which exists between them is, that the term for which the Senate is chosen is in general longer than that of the House of Representat... ...ther to judge: the House of Representatives arraigns the offender, and the Senate awards his sentence. But the Senate can only try such persons as are... ... belong to the class of public functionaries. Thus the jurisdiction of the Senate is less ex- tensive than that of the Peers of France, whilst the rig... ...crime of high treason; the House of Representatives impeaches him, and the Senate degrades him; he must then be tried by a jury, which alone can de- p... ...United States the contrary takes place; and although the de- cision of the Senate is judicial in its form, since the Senators are obliged to comply wi...

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... me speak. The state Legislature, including the House of Delegates and the Senate, also passed a unaminous vote to attend in a body. In the presence o...

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...orm, this law offered a premium for cat-heads (fourpence a-piece), but the Senate succeeded in amending the main clause, so as to sub- stitute the wor...

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...reets about, Of all the host the chief of worth and name Assembled been, a senate grave and stout; Then Godfrey, after silence kept a space, Lift up h...

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...he hands untainted by decay, the beard that had so often wagged in camp or senate still spread upon the royal bosom; and in busts and pictures, some s...

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...ouch in this area and set himself a note to look up Gladiators, the Roman Senate and women in wrestling. The Campbell’s fought so badly, Alan began ...

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...bers of the Planning Board. The other six members of the Planning Board shall be appointed by the Governor by and with the advice and consent of the Senate. Two of the appointive members shall serve for a term of one year, two for a term of two years, and two for a term of three years, and one of the appointive members in his appointment shall be designated as chairman. ...

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...tte of the Federation, as a result of the bill submitted by Mexico's President to the Senate on April 2001. The LMV provides a number of minority ri... ...stitutions. OTS is headed by a Director who is appointed by the US President with the Senate's confirmation. OTS is responsible for chartering, exami... ...ber board of directors appointed by the United States President and confirmed by the Senate, with responsibilities which include insures deposits ... ...l as earnings on investments in US Treasury securities (its investments), rather than Senate appropriations. FDIC administers two federal deposit in... ...volvement. Financial Reform in the United States 17 In 1999, the United States Senate and House of Representatives passed the Gramm-Leach- Bli...

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...F EVERY CANADIAN: Subcommittee to update OF LIFE AND DEATH of the Standing Senate Committee on Social Affairs, Science and Technology; Chair: The Hon.... ...eaudoin Final Report June 2000 http://www.parl.gc.ca/36/2/parlbus/commbus/senate/com-e/ upda-e/rep-e/repfinjun00-e.htm The Special Senate Committee o... ...ND DEATH Final Report June 1995 http://www.parl.gc.ca/35/1/parlbus/commbus/senate/Com- e/euth-e/rep-e/lad-e.htm A Summary of Canadian Legislation Conc...

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...tal departments, and their branches, when specifically applied : Congress (Senate, House of Representatives [the House], Committee of Ways and Mean... ...(but: the department); the Board of Trustees (the Trustees, the Board), the Senate, the Council, 18 The U~iversity of Chicago Press the Faculty of... ... Welbnschawng;" "Napoleon's cw d'dt~t;'~ "the debater far excellence of the Senate;" "De gmtibus ?ton est disptcbndunt, or, as the French have it, C...

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... was all over the front pages of the morning papers. He’s the Chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, and is due to be here in Rome in a few... ...n only once before – the first time he had announced his candidacy for the US Senate. His tone and manner were exactly the same. The possibility sca... ...wenty-five years before, when he had announced his decision to run for the US Senate. And, it was on that day, at that moment, he had fallen complet... ...nt, he had fallen completely in love with her. “You’ll have to give up your Senate seat,” Walter said, hoping it would make a difference. “My Se... ... And that will be that," he stated confidently. Brand parked his car in the Senate Building parking lot. He was oblivious to everything as he walk... ...chest trying to summon up all of his courage. The small, green room in the Senate Building was over crowded with reporters, political analysts, c... ... the other candidates commit. We can make it a central theme of debate on the Senate floor then. Right now, I’m a lone voice.” “Kill it if you can...

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...ttp://www.law.duke.edu/cspd/pdf/ cspdorphanfilm.pdf. Two recent bills, in the Senate and House, respectively, attempt to address the orphan works probl...

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...ak times. Therefore we see it hath done wonders, in popular states; but with senates, and princes less; and more ever upon the first entrance of bold ... ...m, to draw him forth to his death. For when Caesar would have discharged the senate, in regard of 60 some ill presages, and specially a dream of Calp... ...y by the arm out of his chair, telling him he hoped he would not dismiss the senate, till his wife had dreamt a better dream. And it seemeth his favor... ...a letter to him saith, Haec pro amicitia nostra non occultavi; and the whole senate dedicated an altar to Friendship, as to a goddess, in respect of t... ...utianus, in doing affronts to his son; and did write also in a letter to the senate, by these words: I love the man so well, as I wish he may over liv... ...divideth; as the faction between Lucullus, and the rest of the nobles of the senate (which they called Optimates) held out awhile, against the faction... ...tes) held out awhile, against the faction of Pompey and Caesar; but when the senate’s authority was pulled down, 112 Caesar and Pompey soon after bra...

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... have often been fain to carry both the one and the other drunk out of the Senate: 16 Book the Second “Hesterno inflatum venas ut semper, Lyaeo.... ...d by the Romans and of their mercy, in the last deliberation of his city’s senate, after many arguments conducing to that end, concluded that the most... ...o hasten their end, having first, be- fore the six hundred, who were their senate, given account of the reasons and motives of their design, and it wa... ...d through his hands in the province of Antioch, Scipio being come into the senate to that purpose, produced a book from un- der his robe, wherein he t... ...would not do himself so great a disgrace; and in the presence of the whole senate tore the book with his own hands to 46 Book the Second pieces. I do... ...his books commended Brutus and Cassius, that dirty, ser- vile, and corrupt Senate, worthy a worse master than Tiberius, condemned his writings to the ... ...s closet and his chamber, than what he did in the public square and in the senate. As to Cicero, I am of the common opinion that, learning excepted, h... ...ss of his victories, C. Popilius came to him 212 Book the Second from the Senate, and at their first meeting refused to take him by the hand, till he... ... of so positive a command, after a little pause, replied, “I will obey the Senate’s command.” Then Popilius saluted him as friend of the Roman people....

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... It would be far less party bound and far less mercenary than the American Senate, and far more intelligent and capable than the British House of Lord... ...eak with the present condi- tion of things. The conversion of the American Senate would be a more difficult matter, because the method of appoint- men... ...ince 1800, unhappily quite bound up with the political party sys- tem. The Senate is not a body of varied and fluctuating ori- gins into which new ele...

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...lost 79 Thomas de Quincey to one against whom the courts, the pulpit, the senate, the universities, were closed. Nay, by possibility worse than lost;... ...his breakfast equipage complete without the latest re- port from the great senate that sat in London. Hence we need not be astonished that German and ...

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... Thy Country’s noblest and determin’d Choice, Soon shalt thou thrill the Senate with thy voice; With gradual Dawn bid Error’s phantoms flit, Or ...

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...gh, until the third scene of the first act, in which Othello addresses the Senate: the only remarkable circumstance being, that as Iago could not get ... ...ichly embroidered pantaloons. When Othello started with his address to the Senate (whose dignity was represented by, the Duke, A carpenter, two men en...

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...the members of Super think tank, directors of ZSFBI (Zulimistan intelligence bureau), ZSCIA (intelligence agency), delegates from congress, seniors senate members, Zulimistan Army chief, World Finance bank, World Nations Forum, the Crowngland president, and a special guest of honor, the prime minister of Zamaril. The agenda of this important meeting comprises the fol...

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...even receive him in perfect silence; which some liken to that of the Roman Senate overfallen by Brennus; some to that of a nest of coiners sur- prised... ...d to charm by the Acceptance pure and simple,—all gone; and in its stead a Senate of Menads! For as Erasmus’s Ape mimicked, say with wooden splint, Er... ...efore abdicating sig- nifies that, for one thing, she and indeed her whole senate male and female (for what was one roasted warhorse among so many?) a... ...ld, might have earned instead of prowling,—to thee it is no theory! In the Senate-house again, the attitude of the Right Side is that of calm unbelief... ...ue-patriotic, but so combustible; being fired, they must needs fling fire: Senate of touchwood and rockets, in a world of smoke-storm, with sparks win... ...ch will hold true from the Tea-table and Tailor’s shopboard up to the High Senate-houses, Solemn Temples; nay through all prov- inces of Mind and Imag... ...gendre, in the maddest tug of war, can altogether shake it off. Debates of Senates dreadfully in earnest are seldom given frankly to the world; else p... ...present National Convention; as it did those Brennuses, and ancient August Senates in felt breeches? Time surely; and also Eternity. Dim dusk of Time,... ...divisible;’ but what profits it while these things are? Federalists in the Senate, renegadoes in the Army, traitors everywhere! France, all in despera...

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...himself understood. But, before he took his seat, he would remark that the Senate during the present session had passed a bill mak- ing appropriations... ... Two about it. He is a good hand to raise a breeze. General Ashley, in the Senate from Arkansas, died yes- terday. Nothing else new beyond what you se... ... there is a report of a speech of General Cass, made the day before in the Senate, on the Wilmot Proviso, during the delivery of which Mr. Miller of N... ...ted to report a bill in substance as follows: Sec.1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Repre- sentatives of the United States, in Congress ass... ...c candidate for Congress in this district, and afterward ran for the State Senate himself, not desiring the seat, but avowedly to aid and strengthen h... ... he was elected to fill a vacancy of a single session in the United States Senate. In 18O7 he was again elected to the Kentucky House of Representativ... ...09 he was again chosen to fill a vacancy of two years in the United States Senate. In 1811 he was elected to the United States House of Representative... ... he was by the Legislature of Ken- tucky again placed in the United States Senate. By a re- election he was continued in the Senate till he resigned h... ... retired, in March, 1848. In December, 1849, he again took his seat in the Senate, which he again re- signed only a few months before his death. By th...

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...nere,” employed by Machiavelli to indicate the policy adopted by the Roman Senate towards the weaker states of Greece, would by an Elizabethan be corr... ... army, was fighting in Sicily. One morning he assembled the people and the senate of Syracuse, as if he had to discuss with them things relating to th... ...is consistent with military dis- cipline. For this he was upbraided in the Senate by Fabius Maximus, and called the corrupter of the Roman soldiery. T... ... punished, owing entirely to his easy nature. Insomuch that someone in the Senate, wishing to excuse him, said there were many men who knew much bette... ... time the fame and glory of Scipio; but, he being under the control of the Senate, this inju- rious characteristic not only concealed itself, but con-... ...Italy before it was known that he had started. On his arrival at Rome, the Senate, through fear, elected him emperor and killed Julian. After this the... ...deceive Albinus. To the latter he wrote that, being elected emperor by the Senate, he was will- ing to share that dignity with him and sent him the ti... ...dignity with him and sent him the title of Caesar; and, moreover, that the Senate had made Albinus his colleague; which things were accepted by Albinu... ...r, and settled oriental affairs, he returned to Rome and complained to the Senate that Albinus, little recognizing the benefits that he had received f...

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... made him famous, having be- 5 Balzac come a Lucullus of the Conservative Senate, which “con- served” nothing, had postponed an entertainment in hono...

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...even receive him in perfect silence; which some liken to that of the Roman Senate overfallen by Brennus; some to that of a nest of coiners surprised b... ...so gladly do it without violence, will in any case do it; grants an august Senate space to deliberate which method they pre- 93 Thomas Carlyle fer. A... ...; which now, alas, is of small value. Fancy Mounier’s surprise to find his Senate, whom he hoped to charm by the Acceptance pure and simple,—all gone;... ...d to charm by the Acceptance pure and simple,—all gone; and in its stead a Senate of Menads! For as Erasmus’s Ape mimicked, say with wooden splint, Er... ... before abdicating signifies that, for one thing, she and indeed her whole senate male and female (for what was one roasted warhorse among so many?) a...

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...ide Wilderness, there they shall found 1115 Thir government, and thir great Senate choose Through the twelve Tribes, to rule by Laws ordaind: God...

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...hich buys and sells men, women, and children, like cattle at the door of its senate house. I had gone down to the woods for other purposes. But, where...

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...est- hood. Through the rugged remains of temples and tombs and palaces and senate halls and theatres and amphitheatres of ancient days, hosts of tongu...

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... from the wise, Women and fools must like him or he dies; Though wondering senates hung on all he spoke, The club must hail him master of the joke. Sh... .... 30 B. It raises armies in a nation’s aid. P. But bribes a senate, and the land’s betray’d. In vain may heroes fight, and patriots rav... ...n fetch or carry kings; A single leaf shall waft an army o’er, Or ship off senates 24 to a distant shore; A leaf, like Sibyl’s, scatter to and fro Ou... ... lordly luxury, nor city gain: No, ’twas thy righteous end, ashamed to see Senates degenerate, patriots disagree, And nobly wishing party-rage to ceas... ...viscount’s tawdry wife; She bears a coronet and pox for life. In Britain’s senate he a seat obtains, And one more pensioner St Stephen gains. My lady ... ...ate, And greatly falling with a falling state. While Cato gives his little senate laws, What bosom beats not in his country’s cause? Who sees him act,... ...is ... still a ... Be but a man! unminister’d, alone, And free at once the senate and the throne; 90 Esteem the public love his b... ..., starve the learnèd band, And suckle armies, and dry-nurse the land: Till senates nod to lullabies divine, And all be sleep, as at an ode of thine.’ ... ...octor’s chair into the throne, Give law to words, or war with words alone, Senates and courts with Greek and Latin rule, And turn the council to a gra...

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...er of an open aristocracy like our own. But the really governing body, the Senate, was in exclusively composed of persons who had exercised pub lic f... ...responsibility in case of incapacity and failure. When once members of the Senate, their lives were pledged to the conduct of public affairs; they wer... ...except in the discharge of some public trust; and unless turned out of the Senate by the censors for character or conduct deemed disgraceful, they ret... ... popular element. All special offices, both those which gave a seat in the Senate and those which were sought by senators, were conferred by popular e... ...be, and often have been, adduced to show that either a king or a governing senate are in much the most enviable position when ruling justly and vigila... ...n of circumstances exemplifies itself in another American institution, the Senate of the United States. That assembly, the Upper House, as it were, of... ...acred whatever be the size or importance of the state, each returns to the Senate the same number of members (two), whether it be little Dela ware or... ...e other; and in naming two persons to repre sent the state in the federal Senate they for the most part exercise their own judgment, with only that g... ... are conspicuously the best of all the elections in the United States, the Senate invariably con sisting of the most distinguished men among those wh...

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... of Movable Types was disbanding hired Armies, and cashiering most Kings and Senates, and creating a whole new Democratic world: he had invented the A...

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... till the legislative was so placed in collective bodies of men, call them senate, parlia ment, or what you please, by which means every single perso... ...ivil Government, 2nd Essay – Locke secure their properties, the prince or senate, however it may have power to make laws for the regulating of prop ... ... commonwealth, as it is recorded of Nero that he re solved to cut off the senate and people of Rome, lay the city waste with fire and sword, and then... ...that he openly declared that he would be no longer a head to the people or senate, and that he had it in his thoughts to cut off the worthiest men of ...

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...y eager to revenge the injuries of his coun- try; and yet they were in the senate joined together, because the gravity of the one would moderate the c...

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... dominated the public’s perception of the CIA. The DCI is confirmed by the Senate but is not technically a member of the president’s cabinet.The direc... ... was investigations of the CIA by committees headed by Frank Church in the Senate and Otis Pike in the House.They pub- lished evidence that the CIA ha... .... One especially noteworthy innovation was the creation of the Joint House-Senate Atomic Energy Committee, which is credited by many with the developm... ...hurch and Pike investigations into abuses of power. In 1977, the House and Senate created select committees to exercise oversight of the executive bra... ...duct of intelligence operations. The Intelligence Committees The House and Senate select committees on intelligence share some impor- tant characteris... ...ligence agencies within the Department of Defense (and, in the case of the Senate, over the Central Intelligence Agency). One con- sequence is that th... ...ant DCIs for collection and analysis.These reforms occurred only after the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence took the unprecedented step of thre... ...ctions, but there was no reorganization of national security functions.The Senate undertook no appreciable changes.Traditional issues—foreign policy, ... ...es in the House alone, and budget and oversight functions in the House and Senate concerning terrorism were also splintered badly among committees. Li...