Word: nationality
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...translation into Greek from Homer's Essay on Eloquence, from the words "Of all the polite and learned nations" through the words "such disputes are very frequent in this nation...
Introduction."Cabinet government is government by an executive ministry chosen by the chief magistrate of the nation from the legislative majority; a ministry sitting in the legislature and acting as its executive committee; merely give the cabinet the initiative in legislative and leadership in debate and you have cabinet government." (Wilson...
...Fate of any measure depends upon the constitution of a particular committee. c. Fate of all measures depends upon the attitude of committees towards them. d. Develops professional lobbyists. x. Committees more easily influenced. e. Bills of public importance delayed. x. Committees monopolize the time. f. Decreases interest of nation in proceedings of Congress. x. All things decided in secrecy of committee room. g. Leads to system of "log-room." h. Prevents collision and harmony of legislation. i. Cramps debate. x. All committees except Ways and Means have but two hours under ten months session to present and debate bills...
...Proposed Cabinet System best remedy for existing defects. A. Will do away with present committee system. x. Ministers will have initiative in public legislation. y. Private bills will pass through their hands. B. Emergencies can be met by threats of dissolution and resignation. C. Educates the nation. 1. Debates mean something. x. Are thorough and effective. 2. Leads to well-moulded public opinion. x. Politics are full...
...hold themselves aloof from politics and have not the welfare of the country at heart-in other words, that they are not loyal. Harvard men have sometimes been called dilletantes, "gentlemen" rather than men deeply interested in their fellow men and in the political and social welfare of the nation...