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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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