The American Idea as Expounded by American StatesmenJoseph Benson Gilder Dodd, Mead, 1902 - 311 páginas |
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... nations so cheap as the enlightenment of the people . Fleets and armies being much more likely to embroil nations [ viii ] INTRODUCTION.
... nations so cheap as the enlightenment of the people . Fleets and armies being much more likely to embroil nations [ viii ] INTRODUCTION.
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Joseph Benson Gilder. Fleets and armies being much more likely to embroil nations with each other than to insure them against attack , there is no insurance against war in warlike preparation . Govern- ment even if founded upon justice ...
Joseph Benson Gilder. Fleets and armies being much more likely to embroil nations with each other than to insure them against attack , there is no insurance against war in warlike preparation . Govern- ment even if founded upon justice ...
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... Nation over the Individual State . The first confederation , although a perpetual union , was in many vital respects a rope of sand , for it preserved the practical sover- eignty of the consenting states . The present Constitution ...
... Nation over the Individual State . The first confederation , although a perpetual union , was in many vital respects a rope of sand , for it preserved the practical sover- eignty of the consenting states . The present Constitution ...
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Joseph Benson Gilder. has yet existed . It is not one nation , but forty - five nations in one . Three more are probably to be admitted this year , with others to follow . It has solved the question of government by continents . The ...
Joseph Benson Gilder. has yet existed . It is not one nation , but forty - five nations in one . Three more are probably to be admitted this year , with others to follow . It has solved the question of government by continents . The ...
Página xiii
... Nations have their supersensitive nerves , which it is the business of the statesmen of other nations to know and make due al- lowance for . The Monroe Doctrine has become the supersensitive nerve of the American . Just as we should say ...
... Nations have their supersensitive nerves , which it is the business of the statesmen of other nations to know and make due al- lowance for . The Monroe Doctrine has become the supersensitive nerve of the American . Just as we should say ...
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Términos y frases comunes
Abraham Baldwin affirmation amendments American appointed ARTICLE Articles of Confederation cause citizens civil Colonies Confederation Congress assembled continue court Daniel Carroll declare democracy Doctrine duty enforce equal ernment established executive exist fathers who framed favor Federal Government Federal Territories fellow-citizens forbade the Federal force foreign framed the government FRANCIS LIGHTFOOT LEE free government George Read Government to control happiness honor hope House of Representatives human independence interest John Langdon judge justice land legislature letters of marque liberty live ment Monroe Doctrine moral nation ness never Nicholas Gilman oath object opinion party patriotism peace person political present President principle question reason Republic Republican respect Roger Sherman Rufus King rule SECTION self-made Senate sentiment slavery in Federal slaves South Carolina spirit stitution success thereof things thirty-nine tion treaties true Union United Vice-President whole number wrong
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Página 17 - Article, of sending and receiving ambassadors; entering into treaties and alliances, provided that no treaty of commerce shall be made, whereby the legislative power of the respective States shall be restrained from imposing such imposts and duties on foreigners, as their own people are subjected to, or from prohibiting the exportation or importation of any species of goods or commodities whatsoever...
Página 180 - The progress of our arms, upon which all else chiefly depends, is as well known to the public as to myself; and it is, I trust, reasonably satisfactory and encouraging to all. With high hope for the future, no prediction in regard to it is ventured.
Página 177 - Why should there not be a patient confidence in the ultimate justice of the people? Is there any better or equal hope in the world? In our present differences is either party without faith of being in the right? If the Almighty Ruler of Nations, with his eternal truth and justice, be on your side of the North, or on yours of the South, that truth and that justice will surely prevail by the judgment of this great tribunal of the American people.
Página 69 - ... the propitious smiles of Heaven can never be expected on a nation that disregards the eternal rules of order and right, which Heaven itself has ordained; and since the preservation of the sacred fire of liberty, and the destiny of the republican model of government, are justly considered as deeply, perhaps -&& finally staked on the experiment intrusted to the hands of the American people.
Página ix - Promote, then, as an object of primary importance, institutions for the general diffusion of knowledge. In proportion as the structure of a government gives force to public opinion, it is essential that public opinion should be enlightened.
Página 207 - A spirit pervaded all ranks, not transient, not boisterous, but deep, solemn, determined, "totamque infusa per artus Mens agitat molem, et magno se corpore miscet.
Página 182 - With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right, let us strive...
Página 12 - Full faith and credit shall be given in each of these States to the records, acts, and judicial proceedings, of the courts and magistrates of every other State.
Página 96 - Towards the preservation of your government, and the permanency of your present happy state, it is requisite not only that you steadily discountenance irregular oppositions to its acknowledged authority, but also that you resist with care the spirit of innovation upon its principles, however specious the pretexts. One method of assault may be to effect in the forms of the Constitution alterations which will impair the energy of the system, and thus to undermine what cannot be directly overthrown.
Página 97 - It is, indeed, little else than a name, where the government is too feeble to withstand the enterprises of faction, to confine each member of the society within the limits prescribed by the laws, and to maintain all in the secure and tranquil enjoyment of the rights of person and property.