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For this grievous offence a small fine was imposed upon Brooks, and the amount was promptly paid by his admiring constituents. The bully then resigned his seat, and was re-elected without opposition by the South as its spokesman, leader, and law-maker. The news of this murderous attack spread like a flame through the land.
His ability as a legislator had made him conspicuous and brought him in contact with persons managing large business interests, who were greatly attracted by the brilliant young lawyer and law-maker, and swelled the list of his clients. At this period General Butler was almost invariably his opposing or associate counsel.
He hath spoken well! none but the Law-maker shall be the Governor!" Such were the acclamations which greeted the ambitious heart of the Scholar. The voice of the people invested him with the supreme power. He had created a Commonwealth to become, if he desired it, a Despot! While such were the events at Rome, a servitor of Stephen Colonna was already on his way to Corneto.
"None of these are working-men; although they work harder and for many more hours per diem than the mechanic on, in most instances, a less income than the happy protege of the radical law-maker gets by the addition of his weekly wages at the year's end.
"But, sir, Effie that is, my poor sister, sir canna be proved to be a murderer; and if she be not, and the law take her life notwithstanding, wha is it that is the murderer then?" "I am no lawyer," said the Duke; "and I own I think the statute a very severe one." "You are a law-maker, sir, with your leave; and, therefore, ye have power over the law," answered Jeanie.
His sons married Greek, German, and English princesses; his sister became queen of Poland; his three daughters were queens of Norway, Hungary, and France. Scandinavian in origin, the dynasty of Rurik was reaching out hands of brotherhood towards its kinsmen in the West. But it is as a law-maker that Yaroslaf is chiefly known. Before his time the empire had no fixed code of laws.
For seeing the will of the Law-maker is a Law, there appear in this case two contradictory Lawes; which would totally Excuse, if men were bound to take notice of the Soveraigns approbation, by other arguments, than are expressed by his command.
Thus the law-maker happened to be the first object and reflection of the law made; for as liberty of all things is the most welcome to a people, so is there nothing more abhorrent from their nature than ingratitude.
He never completely understood religion, or the enthusiasm which it can evoke; neither did he ever fully realize the complexity of human nature, the many-sidedness of social life, and the limitations that beset the action even of the most intelligent law-maker. Despite ill-health, family troubles, and the outbreak of the French Revolution, he grapples with this portentous task.
Taft's Administration, they rebelled against the rigid dictatorship of Joseph G. Cannon, the Speaker of the House. "Uncle Joe," as the public nicknamed him, dated from before the Civil War, and entered Congress in 1863, forty-seven years before 1910. It was as if a rigid Bourbon, who had served under Louis XV in France in 1763, had been chief law-maker under Napoleon I in 1810. Mr.
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