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Example sentences for "internal improvement"

  • Such, Mr. President, were the opinions of important and leading gentlemen from South Carolina, on the subject of internal improvement, in 1816.

  • Yes, Sir, I pursued in all this a South Carolina track on the doctrines of internal improvement.

  • So, then, internal improvement is not one of the Federal heresies.

  • Many processes of internal improvement, such as aqueducts for the supply of great cities, railroad cuts and embankments, and the like, divert water from its natural channels, and affect its distribution and ultimate discharge.

  • Many of the great processes of internal improvement, such as aqueducts for the supply of great cities, railroad cuts and embankments, and the like, divert water from its natural channels and affect its distribution and ultimate discharge.

  • The location adopted is that recommended by General Bernard, and the Board of Internal Improvement, over which he presided.

  • Others, again, were stimulated by the unexpected acquisition of a large sum, to engage in large and premature works of internal improvement, embarrassing the State with debt, and commencing works which could not be finished.

  • Every work of internal improvement would be stopped.

  • The great measures brought forward were a national bank, internal improvement, and a protective tariff.

  • We have an administration denying to the very government which it administers powers that have been exercised for forty years; it denies the protective power, the bank power, and the power of internal improvement.

  • Perhaps the most important question of eminent domain is or was whether it authorized general schemes of internal improvement made by the State or by a municipality, or, worse still, by a private corporation chartered for the purpose.

  • But the Tennessee Constitution declares that a well-regulated system of internal improvement should be encouraged by the legislature.

  • The Michigan Constitution provides that the State shall go into no internal improvement whatever, and this, of course, was the older principle without any express constitutional provision.

  • A power to establish turnpikes with gates and tolls, and to enforce the collection of tolls by penalties, implies a power to adopt and execute a complete system of internal improvement.

  • This implied the right, the promoters of internal improvement argued, to build roads, with the sanction of the States through which such roads passed.

  • It was largely promoted by Albert Gallatin, who in 1806 made a report, as Secretary of the Treasury, strongly urging such works of internal improvement.

  • His first message to Congress contained the following special recommendations: "The maturing into a permanent and regular system the application of all the superfluous revenues of the Union to internal improvement.

  • That California will be covered with a network of railways is only a question of time, and that time determined by the low rates of interest that will cause capitalists to become interested in these great works of internal improvement.

  • In Brazil, important steps have been taken toward commencing works of internal improvement.

  • Napoleon had needed all the resources of the state for his great works of internal improvement.

  • On the 23d, while the River and Harbor Bill was under debate, Senator Douglas offered a resolution giving the States power to levy tonnage duties upon their commerce, for the purpose of carrying on works of internal improvement.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    been wanting; boil together; cannot call; cooking pots; correspondence with; eighteen guns; internal affairs; internal and border troops; internal heat; internal improvements; internal organs; internal register; internal revenue; internal secretion; internal sense; internal structure; internal taxes; internally displaced; judicial department; once told; public land; reason from; sank down; single bird; victorious army; would deliver