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Senate Debates On The Land-Grant Bill For Indigent Insane Persons, March 2, 1854
I hold, Mr. President, that our authority over the public lands is more unlimited than is our power over the Treasury of the nation. We hold our authority over the lands under a different clause of the Constitution...
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Title: Senate Debates On The Land-Grant Bill For Indigent Insane Persons, March 2, 1854
From: Senate Debates On The Land-Grant Bill For Indigent Insane Persons
Creator: n/a
Date: March 2, 1854
Format: Government Document
Publication: The Congressional Globe
Source: Library of Congress
Location: 33rd Congress, 1st Session, pp.517-518
Keywords: Advocacy; Asylums; Dorothea Dix; Economics; Franklin Pierce; Government; Government Agencies; Health & Medicine; Insanity; Institutions; Laws & Regulation; Legislation; Moral Treatment; Policy; Politics; Psychiatric Disability; Public Health & Welfare; Public Welfare; Railroads; U.S. Congress; Veterans; Washington, DC
Topics: Government, Policy & Law; Institutions, Organizations & Corporations; Social Movements & Advocacy


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