Word: citizenship
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Exclusion of Roman Catholics from public office and positions in schools would be an uncalled for injustice: Citizen, Nov. 17, 1894, Principles 3 and 5. - (a) Membership in Catholic Church not irreconcilable with American citizenship. - (b) Alleged machinations of Pope - even if true - would be ineffective. - (1) Decline of Papal power. - (2) Weakness of Catholic Church in U. S. - (3) Publicity of action in U. S.: C. W. Eliot, Forum, xviii, 138 (Oct. 1894). - (c) Establishment of a religious test would be unconstitutional: Const. of U. S. Art. VI, Sec. 3, Amdt. I. - (d) A religious test for office holders...
sciences. When the state and the church became distinct, the latter remained all-powerful for a long time. Ecclesiastical officials claimed for members of their brotherhood immunity from the ordinary duties of citizenship. In England the clergy possessed the right to punish for crime all accused persons who could prove their right to the "benefit of the clergy" by reading a passage from the Bible. As late as the sixteenth century, a clerk in orders could be only branded for murder. The well-known story of Becket's struggle against Henry shows the power that the church possessed...
...national speech. The new plan asserts exactly this right. If debates are held as proposed, simultaneously throughout the country, and reports of the debates are published in the best magazines, American citizens will read college opinion with interest and with profit; the students will take more interest in their citizenship and the "outside world" will see that, after all, college men are not all snobs and butterflies. The topics for debate will be subjects with which the students will have to deal when they leave college, and here again will be a strong factor in the building of good citizenship...
...which demand their attention. As men who begin their active life work with a better equipment of knowledge than is given to non-college men, college students owe it to the country that they apply their knowledge for the betterment of government and the elevation of the standard of citizenship. The "Spoils System," as opposed to the "Merit System," is, on the face of it, an evil. As an evil, it calls for active opposition from intelligent citizens, and college men have no right to turn their backs upon it and slight it as beneath their notice. The suggestion...
...lecture by Thomas J. Conaty, D. D., given last night under the auspices of the Catholic Club, was extremely interesting. He spoke of American Citizenship, of what it was, and from what it evolved. The mission of the American people is the perfecting the liberty of the man, which in this country, as nowhere else, he holds through the fact of his manhood...