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Title: Review of reviews and world's work
Year: 1890 (1890s)
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Publisher: New York Review of Reviews Corp
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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earnestly and emphatic-ally urge the adoption of an amendment to the Na-tional Constitution, extending the term of office ofthe President of the United States to six years, andproviding that no person who has been President ofthe United States shall thereafter be eligible to the sameoffice. We therefore respectfully request the Congressnow in session to propose an amendment to the Na-tional Constitution that will speedily accomplish thisend. This resolution, though publicly read before theconvention, was not debated nor brought to the testof a vote. But it expresses a sentiment which is soprevalent among thoughtful men that one can seldomfind in private conversation a member of any politicalparty who does not entertain it. The resolation wasduly published as an appendix to the volume of pro-ceedings of the Tenth Republican National Conven-tion that Col. Charles W. Johnson, who was secre-tary of the gathering at Minneapolis, has veryaccurately edited. It is to be hoped that the present
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A GROUP OF NEWLY ELECTED STATE GOVERNORS. (See frontispiece) ■ ^liianc^lsnJJh r??„f^^ 1- S:,f- *£°S!li ^^P^ «■ i^ «eoi-ge W. Peck (Dem. ),Wis. \i. John B Smith fRen \ S H 528 THE REl/lEW OF REVIEWS. or the next Congress may act upon this one-termquestion, and set in motion the tedious process ofamending the Federal Constitution. While they areabout it, there are several other changes relating tothe method of nominating and electing Presidents,and to the apportionment and choice of members ofCongress, that might well be improved. The gerry-mander of congressional districts by the State Legis-latures has come to be a political abuse and a publicscandal of the gravest character. It is possible thatsome slight addition to the clauses of the Constitutionrelating to the method of electing members of theHouse of Representatives might do away with theevil. In this connection. Professor Commons verythoughtful and suggestive article on the abolition ofgerrymandering, contributed to th

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