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Inaugural Addresses of the Presidents of the United States from George Washington to Bill Clinton

... INAUGURAL ADDRESSES OF THE PRESIDENTS OF THE UNITED STATES is a publication of the Penn sylvania State University. T... ... INAUGURAL ADDRESSES OF THE PRESIDENTS OF THE UNITED STATES is a publication of the Penn sylvania State University. This Por... ...ronic transmission, in any way. INAUGURAL ADDRESSES OF THE PRESIDENTS OF THE UNITED STATES , the Pennsylvania State Uni versity, Electronic Classics ... ...ransmission, in any way. INAUGURAL ADDRESSES OF THE PRESIDENTS OF THE UNITED STATES , the Pennsylvania State Uni versity, Electronic Classics Series ... ... of office in April in New York City on the balcony of the Senate Chamber at Federal Hall on Wall Street. General Washing ton had been unanimously el... ...unities and interests, so, on another, that the foun dation of our national policy will be laid in the pure and immutable principles of private moral... ...rations. Before an assembly of Congressmen, Cabinet officers, j udges of the federal and district courts, foreign officials, and a small gathering of ... ... the cultivator against the casualties incident to foreign markets. With the Indian tribes it is our duty to cultivate friendly relations and to act w... ...ithin their limits. It secures us against all future annoyance from powerful Indian tribes. It gives us several excellent harbors in the Gulf of Mexic...

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Up from Slavery : An Autobiography

By: Booker Taliaferro Washington

...Republic; thinking of the one continuous great problem that generations of statesmen had wrangled over, and a million men fought about, and that had s... ...ght about, and that had so dwarfed the mass of English men in the Southern States as to hold them back a hundred years behind their fellows in every o... ... result of the war, if the northern armies conquered. Every success of the Federal armies and every defeat of the Confederate forces was watched with ... ...n- nection with the scene was that some man who seemed to be a stranger (a United States officer, I presume) made a little speech and then read a rath... ...mas time. In some way, dur- ing the war, by running away and following the Federal soldiers, it seems, he found his way into the new state of West Vir... ...condition that they were in then very long. I felt that the Reconstruction policy, so far as it related to my race, was in a large measure on a false ... ...ent was being tried for the first time, by General Armstrong, of education Indians at Hampton. Few people then had any confidence in the ability of th... ...dians at Hampton. Few people then had any confidence in the ability of the Indians to receive education and to profit by it. General Armstrong was anx... ...d of people anxious to shake hands with me. The papers in all parts of the United States published the address in full, and for months afterward there...

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Cyclopedia of Philosophy

By: Sam Vaknin

...re is not much difference between the embryo and the comatose. A typical contract states the rights of the parties. It assumes the existence of pa... ...ion (state vector) in quantum mechanics – the represent millions of potential final states (=millions of potential embryos and lives). The fetus is ... ...ys been the most fervent anti-Semites. Jews are not so much a race as a community, united in age-old traditions and beliefs, lore and myths, histor... ...g their peculiar concerns and preferences into official, if not always consensual, policy. This viral hijacking of the host country's agenda is par... ...y. This viral hijacking of the host country's agenda is particularly evident in the United States where the interest of Jewry and of the only super... ... Texas, the Calusa in current day Florida, the Caddo and Iroquois confederacies of Indians in North America, the Cree in Canada, the Witoto, native... ... or dumping as a method to eliminate competitors. Later acts (Clayton, 1914 and the Federal Trade Commission Act of the same year) added forbidden ... ...ere given access to the Justice Department and to the FTC or the right to sue in a federal court and be eligible to receive treble damages. It is... ...nes Decrees. But ethnic cleansing can be economic (ask the Chinese in Asia and the Indians in Africa). It can be physical (Croatia, Kosovo). It has...

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The Public Domain : Enclosing the Commons of the Mind

By: James Boyle

...essed through the author’s website at http://james-boyle.com. Printed in the United States of America. ISBN: 978-0-300-13740-8 Library of Congress Con... ...hrough the author’s website at http://james-boyle.com. Printed in the United States of America. ISBN: 978-0-300-13740-8 Library of Congress Control Nu... ... and my wife Lauren Dame, as- sociate director of the Genome Ethics, Law and Policy Center, provided cru- cial support to my work with the sciences in... ... 1 Each person has a different breaking point. For one of my students it was United States Patent number 6,004,596 for a “Sealed Crustless Sandwich.” ... ... person has a different breaking point. For one of my students it was United States Patent number 6,004,596 for a “Sealed Crustless Sandwich.” In the ... ... Should the U.S. Commerce Department be able to patent the genes of a Guyami Indian woman who shows an unusual resistance to leukemia? 8 What would it... ...aint of trade” or the Supreme Court decisions that dispossessed the American Indians on the theory that they did not comprehend the concept of propert... ...___ 1 37278_u01.qxd 8/28/08 11:04 AM Page 67 forbid me, in the name of a federal law, from translating Mein Kampf in or- der to warn of the danger... ...first quotes the description of 2600 magazine from Judge Lewis A. Kaplan, the federal district court judge who decided the Reimerdes case. “2600: The H...

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The Federalist Papers

By: Alexander Hamilton

...Federalist Papers A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Federalist Papers is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. Th... ...he document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The Federalist Papers, the Pennsylvania State University, Electronic Classics S... ...overnment, you are called upon to deliberate on a new Constitution for the United States of America. The subject speaks its own importance; comprehend... ...nt, you are called upon to deliberate on a new Constitution for the United States of America. The subject speaks its own importance; comprehending in ... ...rivate circles of those who oppose the new Constitution, that the thirteen States are of too great extent for any general system, and that we must of ... ...he prosperity of the people of America depended on their continuing firmly united, and the wishes, prayers, and efforts of our best and wisest citizen... ...ets without being fully convinced that they are founded in truth and sound policy. It has often given me pleasure to observe that independent America ... ...rt than of the whole; of one or two States than of the Union. Not a single Indian war has yet been occasioned by aggressions of the present federal go... ... federal govern- ment, feeble as it is; but there are several instances of Indian hostilities having been provoked by the improper conduct of individu...

...Excerpt: To the People of the State of New York: After an unequivocal experience of the inefficacy of the subsisting federal government, you are called upon to deliberate on a new Constitution for the United States of America. The subject speaks its own importance; comprehending in its consequences nothing less than the existence of the uni...

...Contents FEDERALIST. No. 1................................................................................................................................................................... 6 FEDERALIST No. 2 ............................

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Considerations on Representative Government

By: John Stuart Mill

...rrence. Nothing but foreign force would in duce a tribe of North American Indians to submit to the restraints of a regular and civilized government. ... ...equisites of civilized life have nothing else to rest on. These deplorable states of feel ing, in any people who have emerged from savage life, are, ... ...n all respects an adequate one, of the Pnyx and the Forum. There have been states of society in which even a monarchy of any great territorial extent ... ... and convictions of those whose personal position is different, and by the united authority of the instructed. When, therefore, the instructed in gene... ...ral jurisprudence, civil and penal legislation, fi nancial and commercial policy, are sciences in themselves, or, rather, separate members of the com... ... in the opposite type. The striving, go ahead character of England and the United States is only a fit subject of disapproving criticism on ac count ... ...e en lightened and disinterested founders of the American Re public, the federal and state assemblies would have contained many of these distinguish... ...an to the 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 onl... ...hese councils are composed of persons who have pro fessional knowledge of Indian affairs, which the governor general and governors usually lack, and ...

.... 181 Chapter XVI Of Nationality, as connected with Representative Government ................................................... 196 Chapter XVII Of Federal Representative Governments ...................................................................................... 203 Chapter XVIII Of the Government of Dependencies by a Free State ......................................

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Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant

By: Ulysses S. Grant

...- missions in the English army, in 1756, in the war against the French and Indians. Both were killed that year. My grandfather, also named Noah, was t... ...chool, many of whom have filled conspicuous places in the service of their States. T wo of my contemporaries there —who, I believe, never attended any... ...ation my father re- ceived a letter from the Honorable Thomas Morris, then United States Senator from Ohio. When he read it he said to me, Ulysses, I ... ...y father re- ceived a letter from the Honorable Thomas Morris, then United States Senator from Ohio. When he read it he said to me, Ulysses, I believe... ...uld not write to Hamer for the appointment, but he wrote to Thomas Morris, United States Senator from Ohio, informing him that there was a vacancy at ... ... least one of these hamlets lived underground for pro- tection against the Indians. The country abounded in game, such as deer and antelope, with abun... ... with those remaining the best of relations apparently existed. It was the policy of the Commanding General to allow no pillaging, no taking of privat... ...a bull killed in the prescribed way. Bull fights are now prohibited in the Federal District— embracing a territory around the City of Mexico, somewhat... ...ion of affairs at this station, I propose to the Commanding Officer of the Federal forces the appoint- ment of Commissioners to agree upon terms of ca...

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Autobiography

By: John Stuart Mill

... Control, without having their force much weak ened, his real opinions on Indian subjects. In his History he had set forth, for the first time, many ... ...story he had set forth, for the first time, many of the true principles of Indian administration: and his despatches, following his History, did more ... ...ub lished, they would, I am convinced, place his character as a practical statesman fully on a level with his eminence as a speculative writer. 18 A... ...spondence with India in one of the leading departments, that of the Native States. This contin ued to be my official duty until I was appointed Exami... ...tion by copious speci mens. So formidable an attack on the Whig party and policy had never before been made; nor had so great a blow ever been struck... ...d speak 73 John Stuart Mill ers of the Cambridge Union and of the Oxford United De bating Society. It is curiously illustrative of the tendencies o... ...rom the be ginning; I had been one of the prompters of his prompters; his policy was almost exactly what mine would have been, and I was in a positio... ... the name of friendship, in a really earnest mind. All these circumstances united, made the number very small of those whose society, and still more w... ...nstitution of the United States made them disapprove of any attempt by the Federal Government to interfere with slavery in the States where it already...

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The Contest in America

By: John Stuart Mill

...ar would soon have buried its causes in oblivion. When the new Confederate States, made an in dependent Power by English help, had begun their crusad... ...interpretation of the war in which we have been so nearly engaged with the United States, appear by many degrees the most probable. There is no de ny... ...etation of the war in which we have been so nearly engaged with the United States, appear by many degrees the most probable. There is no de nying tha... ...slavery: some, probably, from the influences, more or less direct, of West Indian opinions and interests: others from inbred T oryism, which, even whe... ...roper remedy is confession and atonement; that this should be the accepted policy (supposing it to be nothing higher) of a Democratic Republic, shows ... ...slavery question exclusively was the party constituted which now rules the United States: on slavery Fremont was rejected, on slavery Lincoln was elec... ...ything which that constitution forbids. It does forbid interference by the Federal Congress with slavery in the Slave States; but it does not forbid t... ...isting emergency, even of the original cause of quarrel. The most ordinary policy teaches them to inscribe on their banner that part only of their kno... ... that in that event the victorious party would make the alterations in the Federal Constitution which are neces sary to adapt it to the new circumsta...

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