Fanny Kemble Quotes
On the same ground, and literally sitting among the senators, were a whole regiment of ladies, whispering, talking, laughing, and fidgeting… the whole thing was more irregular, and unbusiness-like than any one could have imagined …
Fanny Kemble, 1809-1893, Author & Actress, Describing an address by Daniel Webster to the Senate, Diary, January 14, 1833
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She was being interviewed about the fact that Senator Tammy Duckworth had just given birth, but the then Senate Rules prohibited her from bringing the infant onto the floor of the Senate.
The convention turned down the constitution and would not ratify it until the Bill of Rights was passed later. By modern standards, Presidents in modern times have withheld much information from the Congress and in some cases such as the George W. Bush administrations, the President and his cabinet frequently lied to the Senate, the House, and the American people with no effort made to impeach. Based on the original intent of the Americans ratifying the Constitution, the Executive Branch may not keep anything material to the security of the country secret from Congress. But the center of both parties reject this regardless of what the original intent was.
His main reason for believing this is that all appropriations bills must be initiated by the House of Representatives. Lobbyists therefore often give the House more attention than the Senate.
Women were not, in the decisions of Canadian courts “Persons.” As such they were not allowed to serve as public officials and legislators. In 1929 the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council reversed previous interpretations and declared women eligible for all public offices. It became known as “The Persons Case.”
Felton was the first female U. S. Senator although she only served for a day. She had been appointed by the governor upon the death of Senator Tom Watson in 1922 and served until the elected Walter F. George took office.
Monroe was then Secretary of State.
What is fascinating about this quotation is that although the head of a religion, Smith was not advocating the kinds of personal lifestyle issues of his church the way modern religious leaders do, but was concerned with the much larger issues of expansionism, corruption of the courts and judiciary, and land distribution. He was a classic reform candidate in that sense. Smith had written to most of the then likely Presidential candidates of both major parties asking for their position on the Mormons who were facing persecution wherever they went. None of the politicians would make any satisfactory commitments. Smith took Direct Action and became the only major religious official to have run for the Presidency of the United States until Pat Robertson tried and failed in 2000. Smith’s assassination shortly thereafter cut his run for the Presidency short before it made much headway and politically he had no chance to affect the race.
She was running for the Democratic Presidential Nomination.
Reference to the comparison of candidates Barack Obama andMitt Romney.
Statement made by Root to President Roosevelt regarding a prepared speech about the rights to build the Panama Canal.
Frances Anne "Fanny" Kemble was a British actress from a theatre family in the early and mid-19th century. She was a well-known and popular writer and abolitionist, whose published works included plays, poetry, eleven volumes of memoirs, travel writing and works about the theatre.
