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... things easy for its opponents . It would seem , then , that Cabinet Government after the British model is more closely knit than Presidential Government after the American model , -and this not because America is a federal country while ...
... things easy for its opponents . It would seem , then , that Cabinet Government after the British model is more closely knit than Presidential Government after the American model , -and this not because America is a federal country while ...
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... thing in very much the same kind of way whenever they had the chance . These are the familiar comments indulged in by the hostile and the indifferent on each successive occupant of that historic street . Praise , of course , is not ...
... thing in very much the same kind of way whenever they had the chance . These are the familiar comments indulged in by the hostile and the indifferent on each successive occupant of that historic street . Praise , of course , is not ...
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... things he says about our national in- capacities suffice to show that there is a problem to be solved , he made little effort to solve it . He held ( as we know ) that the vast majority of his fellow countrymen were ' narrow - minded ...
... things he says about our national in- capacities suffice to show that there is a problem to be solved , he made little effort to solve it . He held ( as we know ) that the vast majority of his fellow countrymen were ' narrow - minded ...
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... thing useful , and all thought that same thing could be attained in the same way , the efficient members of a constitution would suffice , and no impressive adjuncts would be needed . But the world in which we live is organized far ...
... thing useful , and all thought that same thing could be attained in the same way , the efficient members of a constitution would suffice , and no impressive adjuncts would be needed . But the world in which we live is organized far ...
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... thing so poor . No orator ever made an impression by appealing to men as to their plainest physical wants , except when he could allege that those wants were caused by some one's tyranny . But thousands have made the greatest impression ...
... thing so poor . No orator ever made an impression by appealing to men as to their plainest physical wants , except when he could allege that those wants were caused by some one's tyranny . But thousands have made the greatest impression ...
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