And if the information is imparted without confidence, the House, if it see fit, can itself control a public discussion.
If the President shall say the information he gives us ought not to be made public, he would answer for himself, and he believed he could answer for his friends, that they would not seek a public discussion.
He was, in short, an able, audacious, almost unconquerable opponent in public discussion.
Then he dared Fabricius to meet him in a public discussion, and prove his doctrine by the text of Scripture.
Under the protection of these turbulent men, the young preacher assumed a bolder line, and wrote to the bishop demanding a public discussion, and announcing that shortly his doctrine would be published in a pamphlet, and thus be popularised.
They felt that a serious practical difficulty surrounded the question itself--difficulties which could not be surmounted by public discussion.
And all this time I held myself prepared to defend, in public discussion, what I considered to be the substance of Christianity.
Nunn, of the Established Church, contended that it was Sabbath-breaking, and challenged the New Connexion officials to a public discussion on the subject.
In 1837, shortly after I was stationed in Mossley, I had a public discussion with a clergyman on the propriety or lawfulness of teaching the children of the poor to write in our Sunday-schools.
The political process, by which a society or social group formulates its wishes and enforces them, goes on within the limits of the mores and is carried on by public discussion, legislation, and the adjudication of the courts.
When a matter has reached the stage of public discussion it becomes a matter of public opinion.
Rousseau conceived the general will to be best expressed through a plebiscite at which a question was presented without the possibilities of the divisive effects of public discussion.
The tariff could never have been built up item by item by public discussion, and it never could have passed, if item by item it had been explained to the people of this country.
I know men not catalogued in the public prints, men not spoken of in public discussion, who are the very bone and sinew of the industry of the United States.
The author of Joining in Public Discussion is professor of rhetoric in Wellesley College and instructor in the Boston Trade Union College.
With Alfred Dwight Sheffield's Joining in Public Discussion was begun publication of a unique collection of books suitable alike for general reading and for use in trade union colleges.
In public discussion, appeal was made to examples from history and to the probabilities of the future.
Not only in the serious journals and books of public discussion, but in fiction and in belles-lettres, the subject of social reform becomes prominent and almost commanding.
It was, however, only a question of time, and the educating influence of public discussion, when the people would become acquainted for themselves with the merits of the subject.
Of the vast, anxious, and anguished volume of public discussion as to what should be done, what after twenty-five years had been the practical outcome?
He sent us a challenge to meet him in a public discussion on the respective merits of the Cross and the Crescent.
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