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  • Until the republican constitutions, framed in accordance with the Congressional reconstruction which supplanted the governments initiated by President Johnson, common-school systems, like universal suffrage, were unknown.

    Black and White T. Thomas Fortune 2007

  • Until the republican constitutions, framed in accordance with the Congressional reconstruction which supplanted the governments initiated by President Johnson, common-school systems, like universal suffrage, were unknown.

    Black and White T. Thomas Fortune 2007

  • In regretting the exclusion of religious instruction from the common-school system, the difficulties which beset the subject must not be forgotten, the multiplicity of the sects, and the very large number of Roman Catholics.

    The Englishwoman in America 2007

  • But it is to the common-school system that the attention should be particularly directed.

    The Englishwoman in America 2007

  • Until the republican constitutions, framed in accordance with the Congressional reconstruction which supplanted the governments initiated by President Johnson, common-school systems, like universal suffrage, were unknown.

    Black and White T. Thomas Fortune 2007

  • Until the republican constitutions, framed in accordance with the Congressional reconstruction which supplanted the governments initiated by President Johnson, common-school systems, like universal suffrage, were unknown.

    Black and White T. Thomas Fortune 2007

  • Until the republican constitutions, framed in accordance with the Congressional reconstruction which supplanted the governments initiated by President Johnson, common-school systems, like universal suffrage, were unknown.

    Black and White T. Thomas Fortune 2007

  • The constant moving of the tenant has handicapped the children in getting a good common-school education because of the breaks in their training resulting from this constant changing of residence.

    Church Cooperation in Community Life

  • The witchcraft delusion found a haven in Harvard when the common sense of a common-school educated people rejected it by a decisive majority.

    The Land We Live In The Story of Our Country Henry Mann

  • The wise forethought of the founders of our Government has not only furnished the basis for the support of the common-school systems of the newer States, but laid the foundations for the maintenance of their universities and colleges of agriculture and the mechanic arts.

    State of the Union Address (1790-2001) United States. Presidents.

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