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In my view, the Christian religion is the most important and one of the first things in which all children, under a free government ought to be instructed... No truth is more evident to my mind than that the Christian religion must be the basis of any government intended to secure the rights and privileges of a free people. Preface to 1828 Dictionary
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LOB'BY, n.
A passage or hall of
communication, especially when large enough to serve also as a
waiting room. It differs from an antechamber in that a
lobby communicates between several rooms, an
antechamber to one only; but this distinction is not carefully
preserved.
That part of a hall of legislation not
appropriated to the official use of the assembly; hence, the persons,
collectively, who frequent such a place to transact business with the
legislators; any persons, not members of a legislative body, who
strive to influence its proceedings by personal agency.
[U.S.] An apartment or passageway
in the fore part of an old-fashioned cabin under the quarter-
deck.
A confined place for
cattle, formed by hedges. trees, or other fencing, near the
farmyard.
Lobby member, a lobbyist. [Humorous cant, U. S.] To address or solicit members of a legislative
body in the lobby or elsewhere, with the purpose to influence their
votes.
[U.S.] Bartlett. To urge the adoption
or passage of by soliciting members of a legislative body] as, to
lobby a bill.
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