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... election . He is aided by Ministers who , however able or distinguished , have no independent political status , have probably had no congressional training , and are by law precluded from obtaining any during their term of office ...
... election . He is aided by Ministers who , however able or distinguished , have no independent political status , have probably had no congressional training , and are by law precluded from obtaining any during their term of office ...
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... election ' . The legislature chosen , in name , to make laws , in fact finds its principal business in making and in keeping an executive . The leading minister so selected has to choose his associates 10 THE ENGLISH CONSTITUTION.
... election ' . The legislature chosen , in name , to make laws , in fact finds its principal business in making and in keeping an executive . The leading minister so selected has to choose his associates 10 THE ENGLISH CONSTITUTION.
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... election , under the only conditions in which secon- dary election is preferable to primary . Generally speaking , in an electioneering country ( I mean in a country full of political life , and used to the manipulation of popular ...
... election , under the only conditions in which secon- dary election is preferable to primary . Generally speaking , in an electioneering country ( I mean in a country full of political life , and used to the manipulation of popular ...
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... election , being elected when all the Federal states had set their united hearts on one single object , was voluntarily re - elected by an actually choosing nation . He embodied the object in which every one was absorbed . But this is ...
... election , being elected when all the Federal states had set their united hearts on one single object , was voluntarily re - elected by an actually choosing nation . He embodied the object in which every one was absorbed . But this is ...
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... , a second - rate man agree- able to the wire - pullers is always smuggled in . The chance of succession to the presidentship is too distant to be thought of . itself . But the first election of Mr. Lincoln is THE CABINET 27.
... , a second - rate man agree- able to the wire - pullers is always smuggled in . The chance of succession to the presidentship is too distant to be thought of . itself . But the first election of Mr. Lincoln is THE CABINET 27.
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