Home Rule and Reorganization for the District of Columbia: Joint Hearings Before the Subcommittees on Home Rule and Reorganization of the Senate and House Committees on the District of Columbia, Eightieth Congress, Second Session, on S. 1968 and H. R. 4902, Bills Providing for Home Rule and Reorganization of Government of the District of Columbia, February 2 to 10, 1948U.S. Government Printing Office, 1948 - 557 էջ |
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Էջ 337 - In these sentiments, Sir, I agree to this Constitution, with all its faults, if they are such ; because I think a general government necessary for us, and there is no form of government but what may be a blessing to the people if well administered...
Էջ 175 - ... to promote social progress and better standards of life in larger freedom and for these ends to practice tolerance and live together in peace with one another as good neighbors...
Էջ 337 - On the whole, sir, I cannot help expressing a wish that every member of the Convention who may still have objections to it would, with me, on this occasion doubt a little of his own infallibility, and, to make manifest our unanimity, put his name to this instrument.
Էջ 337 - Thus I consent, Sir, to this Constitution because I expect no better, and because I am not sure that it is not the best.
Էջ 175 - We the peoples of the United Nations determined to save succeeding generations from the scourge of war, which twice in our lifetime has brought untold sorrow to mankind, and to reaffirm faith in fundamental human rights, in the dignity and worth of the human person, in the equal rights of men and women and of nations large and small...
Էջ 473 - That place shall be considered and held to be the residence of a person in which his habitation is fixed, and to which, whenever he is absent, he has the intention of returning.
Էջ 454 - Queretaro, and every male naturalized citizen thereof, who shall have become such ninety days prior to any election, of the age of twenty-one years, who shall have been a resident of the State one year...
Էջ 487 - Governor and other officers should be appointed by the President, with the consent of the Senate; and be subject to removal, &c., in like manner that they were by the old Congress, whose functions had ceased.
Էջ 482 - A municipal corporation is a public corporation created by the government for political purposes, and having subordinate and local powers of legislation...
Էջ 502 - That all that part of the territory of the United States...