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Imperial Service Order

THE, a British order, organized in 1902 by King Edward VII, membership being crown in the British Isles, colonies, and confined to officials under the British dependencies. The head of the order is the reigning sovereign, and the members are called companions, the number of whom is not allowed to exceed 450. A condition of entry is a continuous service of 25 years, though this is reduced to a minimum of 16 years in the cases of parts of the world unfavorable to the health of Europeans. A majority of the members consist of those engaged in service in Great Britain. perhaps, its widest sense, was expressed in the great designs of Charlemagne.

Regarded thus, it amounts to a scheme of undisputed sway over an extensive on a grand scale. In that sense we find the czars of Russia-a policy which is supposed to imply continuous expansion to the E. In connection with the British empire, the word imperialism may, however, be used as combining the interests of all the members of the group-the mother-country, the colonies and deof all the members of the group-the mother-country, the colonies and de-

In the United States "imperialism" is used to refer to the policy of "national expansion." The opponents of expansion made the constitutional right of the United States to establish a government over territory acquired by conquest or purchase, a question in the political campaign of 1900; the Democrats holding such government unconstitutional; Repurchase, a question in the political cam- paign of 1900; the Democrats holding ity resultant from the defeat of Spain, and the ensuing failure of Spanish government, must be met, and a stable government established. On Dec. 2, 1901, the Supreme Court of the United States handed down a decision on the government established. On Dec. 2, 1901, the Supreme Court of the United IMPRISONMENT sion. The broad principles settled by these: (1) The Constitution does not territory by special act of Congress. follow the flag till it is planted on new territory by special act of Congress. (2) The extension of the sovereignty of the United States to new territory carthe United States to the people thus afantees of the enjoyment of liberty, the right to property and the protection of the United States to the people thus affected in securing justice and maintainfrom Spain by the treaty of Paris are from Spain by the treaty of Paris are progress. (3) The islands acquired "property of the United States" in the the Constitution, and, this being the case, Congress can dispose of these islands in ducive to the highest interests of the peoany way which it may believe to be conple of the United States and of these islands. strict sense in which that term is used in duty; a custom or duty levied upon goods imported. In architecture, the point where an arch rests on a wall or column; the upper member of a pillar, column, or entablature, upon which an band; 1; the upper stone of a pier or abutband; the upper stone of a pier or abuttom stone of an arch is imposed; a "contom stone of an arch is imposed; a "conmoldings are carried down the pier withmoldings are carried down the pier without interruption, and without having a capital or distinction of any kind at the spring of the arch; a "discontinuous impost," one in which the arch moldings abut and are stopped on the pier; a "shafted impost," one in which the arch moldings spring from a capital, and are different from those of the pier; and a "banded impost," one in which the pier and arch have the same moldings.