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The people were to be represented by a bicameral parliament, with a directly elected Volkshaus and a Staatenhaus of representatives sent by the individual confederated states.
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The marine was alone, for they were impatient people and by now would have vied to knock him from the tree.
And no doubt many people in states like the Carolinas and Georgia, which were among the most Tory in sentiment in the eighteenth century, bitterly regretted the revolt against the Crown.
The one of 1861 made clear that in making their government the people were acting through their states, whereas the Preamble of 1787-89 expressed, as clearly as language can, the opposite concept, that they were acting directly as citizens.
What Lincoln could not concede was that the states rather than the people were sovereign in the Union.
If these people were denied a voice ( do they have a moral right to a voice??
The young people were self-energizing, and I was energized.
But Morgan did not leave before he had written a letter to a William Pickman in Salem, Massachusetts, apparently an acquaintance, praising Washington and saying that the slanders propagated about him were `` opposed by the general current of the people to exalt General Gates at the expense of General Washington was injurious to the latter.
`` Tact '', by its very derivation, implies that its possessor keeps in touch with other people, but the author of Clericis Laicos and Unam Sanctam, the wielder of the two swords, the papal sun of which the imperial moon was but a dim reflection, the peer of Caesar and vice-regent of Christ, was so high above other human beings that he had forgotten what they were like.
It usually turned out well for him because either he liked the right people or there were only a few wrong people in the town.
In spite of his being well liked there were a few people who were very careful about Alfred.
To people who didn't know her she was a gawky, badly dressed kid whose arms were too long, whose legs were a little too bony.
Within themselves, just as people, my friends were often tortured and unappeasably bitter about being the offspring of this unhappily unique-ingrown-screwedup breed ; ;
So were a lot of other people.
These people were not talking much about it, but you, a foreigner, sensed their apprehension and disappointment.
Mr. Freeman said that in many of the countries he visited on a recent world trade trip people were more awed by America's capacity to produce food surpluses than by our industrial production -- or even by the Soviet's successes in space.
She had done it last year, and the year before, and the year before that, and she, and her people were dependent upon these cans for food.
He tends to treat himself and other people as if they were objects -- and sometimes he treats objects as if they were people.
The people visited were glad to have a government with heart enough to take an interest in their misery.
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Similarly experience itself can be conventionalized so that people react to certain preconceived clues for behavior without awareness of the vitality of their experiential field.
The traditional strategy of the South has been to expose the vices of the North, to demonstrate that the North possessed no superior virtue, to `` show the world that '' as James's Christopher Newman said to his adversaries ) `` however bad I may be, you're not quite the people to say it ''.
But people can't be made to integrate, socialize ( the two are inseparable by Southern standards ) by law.
It will be shown that the objectives of the cooperative people in an organization determine the type of network required, because the type of network functions according to the characteristics of the messages enumerated in Table 1.
But, for practical purposes, we have people who can be considered as such.
Postmaster General Burleson set about to protect the American people against radical propaganda that might be spread through the mails.
But the fact remains that even the unconscious acceptance of himself as a man of destiny divinely protected must be censored in any man who evades the responsibility for his major decisions, and thus for imposing his will on the people.
To experience them, it is not necessary for a people to be actively aware of what is happening to it.
It would be profitable, I believe, to read these realistic humorists alongside Faulkner's works, the thought being not that he necessarily read them and owed anything to them directly, but rather that they dealt a hundred years ago with a class of people and a type of life which have continued down to our time, to Faulkner's time.
Even if people do, in a not far distant future, begin to read one another's minds, there will still be the question of whether what you find in another man's mind is especially worth reading -- worth more, that is, than what you can read in good books.
I shall continue to urge the American people, in the interests of their own security, prosperity and peace, to make sure that their own part of this great project be amply and cheerfully supported.
Sometimes a ship would be sighted and the Caravan pass so close that people could easily be seen on the distant deck.
All the rest of the days in the White House would be shadowed by the tragic loss, even though the President tried harder than ever to make his little dry jokes and to tease the people around him.
Literature may be said to give people a sense of purpose, dedication, mission, significance.
We must avoid the notion, suggested to some people by examples such as those just mentioned, that ideas are `` units '' in some way comparable to coins or counters that can be passed intact from one group of people to another or even, for that matter, from one individual to another.
`` It would be a disgrace, and, as I have already said to the people of Tennessee, if Hearst is nominated, we may as well pen a dispatch, and send it back from the field of battle: ' All is lost, including our honor ' ''.
There are some people, intelligent people, who seem to be untouched by the sea of wonder in which we are immersed and in which we spend our lives.
and the young people should not even be permitted to see comedies till they are old enough to drink strong wine and sit at the public tables.
Our students want occupations that permit them to use their talents and training, to be creative and original, to work with and to help other people.
The students who are most willing to acquiesce in the suppression of civil liberties are also those who are most likely to be prejudiced against minority groups, to be conformist and traditionalistic in general social attitudes, and to lack a basic faith in people.
He was a learned and brilliant man, one of the best jurists in Europe and with flashes of penetrating insight, and yet in his dealings with other people, particularly when he tried to be ingratiating, he was capable of an abysmal stupidity that can have come only from a complete incomprehension of human nature and human motives.
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Oersted's boyhood represented a minimal chance of either attaining greatness or serving his people so well and over so long a span of life.
In this scheme, people would be represented in government by a party or organization that defended the interests of their particular occupation or industry, not a particular ideology.
Due to imprecision in the standard English language, two completely different feelings experienced by two different people can be represented by an identical verbal expression.
During that time, black people were also represented by the ICU and the previously white-only Communist party.
The term black people is used in some socially-based systems of racial classification for humans of a dark-skinned phenotype, relative to other racial groups represented in a particular social context.
This tradition was interrupted for several decades in mainland China, where the official stance of the Communist Party and the State was that Confucius and Confucianism represented reactionary feudalist beliefs which held that the subservience of the people to the aristocracy is a part of the natural order.
" 19: 7-8 Christ is represented throughout Revelation as “ the Lamb ,” symbolizing the giving of his life as an atoning sacrifice for the people of the world, just as lambs were sacrificed on the altar for the sins of Israel.
The DPP supported reform of the Constitution that would make it official that Taiwan's national government represented only the people of Taiwan and made no claims to territory in mainland China or Mongolia.
Chihuly said the melting wall represented the " dissolution of barriers " between people.
Scarcity is represented in the figure by people being willing but unable in the aggregate to consume beyond the PPF ( such as at X ) and by the negative slope of the curve.
Often represented as stages through which people pass as they mature, developmental theories describe changes in mental abilities ( cognition ), social roles, moral reasoning, and beliefs about the nature of knowledge.
Approximately 7 million people were represented in this category, about 4 million of them under the age of ten and, therefore, economically unproductive.
Since Brighid represented the light half of the year, and the power that will bring people from the dark season of winter into spring, her presence was very important at this time of year.
Tenniel executed 2, 165 separate cartoons for Punch, a liberal and politically active publication that took full advantage of the Victorian time ’ s mood for want of liberal social changes ; thus Tenniel, in his cartoons, represented for years the conscience of the British people.
According to Rashi, the ladder signified the exiles that the Jewish people would suffer before the coming of the Jewish Messiah: the angels that represented the exiles of Babylonia, Persia, and Greece each climbed up a certain number of steps, paralleling the years of the exile, before they " fell down "; but the angel representing the last exile, that of Rome or Edom, kept climbing higher and higher into the clouds.
It started off as an event for freshers to showcase their oratorical skills in the Policy debating format but has since evolved into a multi-format national level debate highlighting the ways in which the Voice of the people is represented.
One group, represented by Jacob Viner, argues that mercantilism was simply a straightforward, common-sense system whose logical fallacies could not be discovered by the people of the time, as they simply lacked the required analytical tools.
The NCNC represented the interests of the Igbo-and Christian-dominated people of the Eastern Region of Nigeria.
and the Action Group ( AG ) was a left-leaning party that represented the interests of the Yoruba people in the West.
To the inhabitants of Azuero, their region was symbolic of the power of the people, while Veraguas represented an old, oppressive order.
This represented the overruling of the Dred Scott decision's ruling that black people were not, and could not become, citizens of the United States or enjoy any of the privileges and immunities of citizenship.
Controlling the Senate for a while, Whigs passed a censure motion denouncing Jackson's arrogant assumption of executive power in the face of the true will of the people as represented by Congress.
It also sets out — or, in the view of its drafters, restates — certain constitutional requirements of the Crown to seek the consent of the people, as represented in Parliament.
In 2007 Hong Kong Chief Executive Donald Tsang remarked that the Cultural Revolution represented the ' dangers of democracy ', remarking " People can go to the extreme like what we saw during the Cultural Revolution [...], when people take everything into their own hands, then you cannot govern the place ".
It effectively represented the views and disappointments of the first generation of British people to grow up after World War II, and gave voice to a sense of the loss of national purpose with the end of the British Empire.
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