College Readings in English ProseFrank William Scott, Jacob Zeitlin |
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... House would no doubt presently create a new committee . The thousands of bills annually in- troduced are promptly ... Commons depends upon its committee , the Government , to do , the House depends upon its fifty - seven committees to do ...
... House would no doubt presently create a new committee . The thousands of bills annually in- troduced are promptly ... Commons depends upon its committee , the Government , to do , the House depends upon its fifty - seven committees to do ...
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... House of Commons . From the moment when its sole right to tax the nation was established by the Bill of Rights , and when its own resolve settled the practice of granting none but annual supplies to the Crown , the House of Commons ...
... House of Commons . From the moment when its sole right to tax the nation was established by the Bill of Rights , and when its own resolve settled the practice of granting none but annual supplies to the Crown , the House of Commons ...
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... Commons . He was obliged to use his veto to defeat a Triennial Bill which , as he believed , would have destroyed what little stability of purpose there was in the present Parliament . The Houses were in fact without the guidance of ...
... Commons . He was obliged to use his veto to defeat a Triennial Bill which , as he believed , would have destroyed what little stability of purpose there was in the present Parliament . The Houses were in fact without the guidance of ...
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... House of Commons which it had never had before . The Ministers who were representative of the majority of its members became the natural leaders of the House . Small factions were drawn together into the two great parties which ...
... House of Commons which it had never had before . The Ministers who were representative of the majority of its members became the natural leaders of the House . Small factions were drawn together into the two great parties which ...
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... House of Commons . Especially was he prominent as the most powerful voice and pen that defended the course of the Northern States during the American Civil War . In 1864 he had gone to the United States , had visited Abraham Lincoln and ...
... House of Commons . Especially was he prominent as the most powerful voice and pen that defended the course of the Northern States during the American Civil War . In 1864 he had gone to the United States , had visited Abraham Lincoln and ...
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