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Excerpt from: Franklin Pierce's 1854 Veto [I]f Congress has the power to make provision for the indigent insane. . .it has the same power to provide for the indigent who are not insane, and thus to transfer to the Federal Government the charge of all the poor in all the States.... |  Read Full Text |
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| Title: | Franklin Pierce's 1854 Veto | |
| Creator: | Franklin Pierce (author) | |
| Date: | May 3, 1854 | |
| Format: | Government Document | |
| Source: | Available at selected libraries | |
| Keywords: | Advocacy; Asylums; Dorothea Dix; Economics; Franklin Pierce; Government; GOVERNMENT, POLICY & LAW; Health & Medicine; Hospitals; Insanity; Institutions; INSTITUTIONS, ORGANIZATIONS & CORPORATIONS; Laws & Regulation; Legislation; Moral Treatment; Philanthropy; Policy; Politics; Poverty; Psychiatric Disability; Public Health & Welfare; Public Welfare; SOCIAL MOVEMENTS & ADVOCACY; Social Welfare & Communities; U.S. Congress | |
| Note: | Pierce vetoes a bill sponsored by Dorothea Dix calling for the sale of federal lands to subsidize institutions for indigents with mental disabilities. |
