The Works of Orestes A. Brownson: PoliticsT. Nourse, 1885 |
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... American citizen , and it cannot come round without exciting lively emotions of gratitude and joy in every American heart . The birth of a nation is an event to be remembered , and the day on which it takes its rank in the family of ...
... American citizen , and it cannot come round without exciting lively emotions of gratitude and joy in every American heart . The birth of a nation is an event to be remembered , and the day on which it takes its rank in the family of ...
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... American spirit , American genius , American interests , American greatness , and calling for an American party ; but those calm , quiet , self - possessed spirits who rarely think of asking themselves whether they are Americans or not ...
... American spirit , American genius , American interests , American greatness , and calling for an American party ; but those calm , quiet , self - possessed spirits who rarely think of asking themselves whether they are Americans or not ...
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... American governments as of any others . The American people were created by their colonial governments , established by legitimate authority , bodies corporate and politic subject to the crown of Great Britain . But the charters granted ...
... American governments as of any others . The American people were created by their colonial governments , established by legitimate authority , bodies corporate and politic subject to the crown of Great Britain . But the charters granted ...
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... American doctrine , and implied in no American institution . It is an exotic , brought hither from the gardens of foreign theorists , and should be rooted up and rejected by every American who loves his country , and would be able to ...
... American doctrine , and implied in no American institution . It is an exotic , brought hither from the gardens of foreign theorists , and should be rooted up and rejected by every American who loves his country , and would be able to ...
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... American revolution , the declaration of independence , and the prevalent theories and speculations of American statesmen and politicians . The theories and speculations of many of our statesmen and politicians assert the popular origin ...
... American revolution , the declaration of independence , and the prevalent theories and speculations of American statesmen and politicians . The theories and speculations of many of our statesmen and politicians assert the popular origin ...
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Página 10 - Let every soul be subject to higher powers : for there is no power but from God; and those that are, are ordained of God.
Página 267 - Every person who, within the territory or jurisdiction of the United States, begins or sets on foot, or provides or prepares the means for, any military expedition or enterprise, to be carried on from thence against the territory or dominions of any foreign prince or state or of any colony, district, or people with whom the United States are at peace, shall be deemed guilty of a high misdemeanor, and shall be fined not exceeding three thousand dollars and imprisoned not more than three years.
Página 183 - Useful and necessary changes in legislation and administration," says the Laybach Circular of May, 1821, "ought only to emanate from the free will and intelligent conviction of those whom God has rendered responsible for power; all that deviates from this line necessarily leads to disorder, commotions, and evils far more insufferable than those which they pretend to remedy.
Página 180 - Well-known circumstances in their history, indeed their whole history, have made them the representatives of purely popular principles of government. In this light they now stand before the world. They could not, if they would, conceal their character, their condition, or their destiny.
Página 170 - If, therefore, the United States had gone so far as formally to acknowledge the independence of Hungary, although, as the result has proved, it would have been a precipitate step, and one from which no benefit would have resulted to either party, it would not, nevertheless, have been an act against the law of nations, provided they took no part in her contest with Austria.
Página 181 - But the undersigned goes further, and freely admits that in proportion as these extraordinary events appeared to have their origin in those great ideas of responsible and popular governments, on which the American constitutions themselves are wholly founded, they could not but command the warm sympathy of the people of this country.
Página 170 - Of course questions of prudence naturally arise in reference to new States, brought by successful revolutions into the family of nations ; but it is not to be required of neutral Powers that they should await the recognition of the new Government by the parent State. No principle of public law has been more frequently acted upon within the last thirty years by« the great Powers of the world than this.
Página 183 - These declarations amount to nothing less than a denial of the lawfulness of the origin of the Government of the United States, since it is certain that that Government was established in consequence of a change which did not proceed from thrones, or the permission of crowned heads. But the Government of the United States heard these denunciations of its fundamental principles without remonstrance, or the disturbance of its equanimity.
Página 212 - The sounder and more prevalent doctrine, however, is, that the citizen or subject, having faithfully performed the past and present duties resulting from his relation to the Sovereign Power, may at any time release himself from the obligation of allegiance, freely quit the land of his birth or adoption, seek through all countries a home, and select anywhere that which offers him the fairest prospect of happiness for himself and his posterity.
Página 267 - that if any person shall, within the territory or jurisdiction of the United States, begin or set on foot, or provide or prepare the means for, any military expedition or enterprise, to be carried on from thence against the territory or dominions of any foreign prince or state, or of any colony, district, or people, with whom the United States are at peace, every person, so offending, shall be deemed guilty of a high misdemeanor, and shall be fined not exceeding three thousand dollars, and imprisoned...