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If they did, they would have the privilege of electing their own officers, and would be placed on the same footing as the other volunteer regiments; and those of their number who, by reason of age, were not subject to conscription, would serve until the 15th of July, when they would be discharged.
He was overtaken and killed, and his body was exposed for three days in front of the palace, so that the mob might wreak their vengeance upon his inanimate clay. Marina and her father were captured, and after being detained for a little time were set at liberty. By the death of the impostor, the throne was left vacant, and the privilege of electing a new czar reverted to the people.
My beloved brethren, you will find it a sweet subject for song at times, to begin to sing of electing love and covenanted mercies.
He requested them to communicate their decisions by telegraph; and two days later he had heard from them all, and was ready for business. He called up Stanley Ryder, and made an appointment for an interview. "Mr. Ryder," he said, "a few weeks ago you talked with me in this office, and asked me to assist you in electing your ticket for the Northern Mississippi Railroad.
Indeed, amid the tumult and everlasting discontent of the artists, after attempts at reform, repeated a score of times and then abandoned, the authorities had just invested the exhibitors with the privilege of electing the members of the hanging committee; and this had quite upset the world of painters and sculptors, a perfect electoral fever had set in, with all sorts of ambitious cabals and intrigues all the low jobbery, indeed, by which politics are dishonoured.
The organization of the Legislature and the method of electing the legislative members shall be fixed by the Provisional Constitution Conference. Art. 31. The duties and authorities of the Li Fa Yuan shall be as follows: To discuss and pass all bills of law. To discuss and pass the Budget.
THE GOLDEN BULL. The great service of Charles IV. to Germany was in the grant of the charter called the Golden Bull . This expressly conferred the right of electing the emperor on the SEVEN ELECTORS, who had, in fact, long exercised it.
By the use of all the money that could be spent, by a complete and compact organization and by the most infamous sort of deception regarding his real opinions and intentions, plutocracy had succeeded in electing its creature to the Presidency. There had been formed a league, the membership of which was composed of one thousand multi-millionaires, each one contributing ten thousand dollars.
But when it had been decided to organize a society on the spot, and the business of electing officers was taken up, they roused themselves to a new interest, and Maud was evidently gratified when Evelyn nominated her for the secretaryship. Lulu seconded the motion and Maud was unanimously elected. Zoe had already been made president; Lora was chosen treasurer.
And, by 1860 when the people of the Free States, grown sick unto death of the rule of the Slave-power in the General Government, arose in their political might, and shook off this "Old Man of the Sea," electing, beyond cavil and by the Constitutional mode, to the Presidential office, a man who thoroughly represented in himself their conscience, on the one hand, which instinctively revolted against human Slavery as a wrong committed against the laws of God, and their sense of justice and equity on the other, which would not lightly overlook, or interfere with vested rights under the Constitution and the laws of man the Conspirators had reached the point at which they had been aiming ever since that failure in 1832 of their first attempt at Disunion, in South Carolina.
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