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1.1     ! root        1: #print
        !             2: Suppose you want to print all lines in the file "memo"
        !             3: that contain a question mark "?".  Since the question mark
        !             4: is an abbreviation character (as in "ls ?"), you
        !             5: have to make sure that the command interpreter doesn't
        !             6: try to interpret it, but instead passes it to "grep"
        !             7: as a literal question mark. 
        !             8: 
        !             9: The way to do this is simply to enclose it in quotes,
        !            10: as in
        !            11:   grep '?' files...
        !            12: 
        !            13: Use "grep" to find all the lines with question marks,
        !            14: then type "ready".
        !            15: #create memo
        !            16: (This comes from a federalist paper by alexander hamilton.)
        !            17:    It has been mentioned as one of the advantages to be expected
        !            18: from the cooperation of the Senate, in the business
        !            19: of appointments, that it would contribute to the
        !            20: stability of the administration.  The consent of that body
        !            21: would be necessary to displace as well as to appoint.  A
        !            22: change of the Chief Magistrate, therefore, would not occasion
        !            23: so violent or so general a revolution in the officers
        !            24: of the government as might be expected if he were the
        !            25: sole disposer of offices.  Where a man in any station had
        !            26: given satisfactory evidence of his fitness for it, a new
        !            27: President would be restrained from attempting a change
        !            28: in favor of a person more agreeable to him by the apprehension
        !            29: that a discountenance of the Senate might frustrate
        !            30: the attempt, and bring some degree of discredit
        !            31: upon himself.  Those who can best estimate the value of
        !            32: a steady administration will be most disposed to prize a
        !            33: provision which connects the official existence of public
        !            34: men with the approbation or disapprobation of that body
        !            35: which, from the greater permanency of its own composition,
        !            36: will in all probability be less subject to inconstancy
        !            37: than any other member of the government.
        !            38:    To this union of the Senate with the President, in the
        !            39: article of appointments, it has in some cases been suggested
        !            40: that it would serve to give the President an undue
        !            41: influence over the Senate, and in others that it would
        !            42: have an opposite tendency - a strong proof that neither
        !            43: suggestion is true.
        !            44:    To state the first in its proper form is to refute it.  It
        !            45: amounts to this:  the President would have an improper
        !            46: influence over the Senate, because the Senate would
        !            47: have the power of restraining him.  This is an absurdity in
        !            48: terms.  It cannot admit of a doubt that the entire power
        !            49: of appointment would enable him much more effectually
        !            50: to establish a dangerous empire over that body than a
        !            51: mere power of nomination subject to their control.
        !            52:     Let us take a view of the converse of the proposition:
        !            53: "the Senate would influence the executive."  As I have
        !            54: had occasion to remark in several other instances, the indistinctness
        !            55: of the objection forbids a precise answer.  In
        !            56: what manner is this influence to be exerted?  In relation
        !            57: to what objects?  The power of influencing a person, in
        !            58: the sense in which it is here used, must imply a power of
        !            59: conferring a benefit upon him.  How could the Senate
        !            60: confer a benefit upon the President by the manner of employing
        !            61: their right of negative upon his nominations?  If it
        !            62: be said they might sometimes gratify him by an acquiescence
        !            63: in a favorite choice, when public motives might dictate a
        !            64: different conduct, I answer that the instances in which the
        !            65: President could be personally interested in the result would
        !            66: be too few to admit of his being materially affected by the
        !            67: #create Ref
        !            68: what manner is this influence to be exerted?  In relation
        !            69: to what objects?  The power of influencing a person, in
        !            70: their right of negative upon his nominations?  If it
        !            71: #create 1
        !            72: #create x
        !            73: #copyout
        !            74: #user
        !            75: #uncopyout
        !            76: tail -3 .ocopy >X1
        !            77: #cmp X1 Ref
        !            78: #log
        !            79: #next
        !            80: 2.1a 10

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