The World's Great Classics: Democracy in America, by A. de TocquevilleTimothy Dwight, Julian Hawthorne Colonial Press, 1899 Library Committee: Timothy Dwight ... Richard Henry Stoddard, Arthur Richmond Marsh, A.B. [and others] ... Illustrated with nearly two hundred photogravures, etchings, colored plates and full page portraits of great authors. Clarence Cook, art editor. |
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... increasing , although the persons who govern are less stable ... 317 CHAPTER VI What sort of despotism democratic nations have to fear ... 330 CHAPTER VII Continuation of the preceding chapters ... 336 CHAPTER VIII General survey of the ...
... increasing , although the persons who govern are less stable ... 317 CHAPTER VI What sort of despotism democratic nations have to fear ... 330 CHAPTER VII Continuation of the preceding chapters ... 336 CHAPTER VIII General survey of the ...
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... increases , and opinion is more than ever mistress of the world . Not only is common opinion the only guide which private judgment retains amongst a democratic people , but amongst such a people it possesses a power infinitely beyond ...
... increases , and opinion is more than ever mistress of the world . Not only is common opinion the only guide which private judgment retains amongst a democratic people , but amongst such a people it possesses a power infinitely beyond ...
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... increases the power which that majority naturally exercises over the mind . For nothing is more customary in man than to recognize superior wisdom in the person of his oppressor . This political omnipotence of the majority in the United ...
... increases the power which that majority naturally exercises over the mind . For nothing is more customary in man than to recognize superior wisdom in the person of his oppressor . This political omnipotence of the majority in the United ...
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... increasing his fortune . The spirit of gain is always on the stretch , and the human mind , con- stantly diverted from the pleasures of imagination and the labors of the intellect , is there swayed by no impulse but the pursuit of ...
... increasing his fortune . The spirit of gain is always on the stretch , and the human mind , con- stantly diverted from the pleasures of imagination and the labors of the intellect , is there swayed by no impulse but the pursuit of ...
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... increasing it ; if they are free , they all attempt it , but all do not succeed in the same manner . The legislature ... increased . A sect which arose in our time , and was celebrated for its talents and its extravagance , proposed to ...
... increasing it ; if they are free , they all attempt it , but all do not succeed in the same manner . The legislature ... increased . A sect which arose in our time , and was celebrated for its talents and its extravagance , proposed to ...
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Términos y frases comunes
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Página 385 - No Person held to Service or Labour in one State, under the Laws thereof, escaping into another, shall, in consequence of any Law or Regulation therein, be discharged from such Service or Labour, but shall be delivered up on Claim of the Party to whom such Service or Labour may be due. Section 3. New States may be admitted by the Congress into this Union ; but no new State shall be formed or erected within the Jurisdiction of any other State; nor any State be formed by the Junction of two or more...
Página 377 - The Congress shall assemble at least once in every year, and such meeting shall be on the first Monday in December, unless they shall, by law, appoint a different day.
Página 375 - All legislative Powers herein granted shall be vested in a Congress of the United States, which shall consist of a Senate and House of Representatives. Section 2. The House of Representatives shall be composed of Members chosen every second Year by the People of the several States, and the Electors in each State shall have the Qualifications requisite for Electors of the most numerous Branch of the State Legislature.
Página 383 - Vice-President and all civil officers of the United States, shall be removed from office on impeachment for, and conviction of, treason, bribery, or other high crimes and misdemeanors.
Página 382 - States, and a Majority of all the States shall be necessary to a Choice. In every Case, after the Choice of the President, the Person having the greatest number of Votes of the Electors shall be the Vice-President. But if there should remain two or more who have equal Votes, the Senate shall choose from them by Ballot the Vice-President.]* The Congress may determine the Time of choosing the Electors, and the Day on which they shall give their Votes; which Day shall be the same throughout the United...
Página 110 - Americans of all ages, all conditions, and all dispositions constantly form associations. They have not only commercial and manufacturing companies, in which all take part, but associations of a thousand other kinds, religious, moral, serious, futile, general or restricted, enormous or diminutive.
Página 388 - Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press ; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.
Página 380 - No State shall enter into any Treaty, Alliance, or Confederation ; grant Letters of Marque and Reprisal ; coin Money ; emit Bills of Credit; make any Thing but gold and silver Coin a Tender in Payment of Debts ; pass any Bill of Attainder, ex post facto Law, or Law impairing the Obligation of Contracts, or grant any Title of Nobility.
Página 376 - No person shall be a Senator who shall not have attained to the Age of thirty Years, and been nine Years a Citizen of the United States, and who shall not, when elected, be an Inhabitant of that State for which he shall be chosen. The Vice-President of the United States shall be President of the Senate, but shall have no Vote, unless they be equally divided.
Página 376 - When vacancies happen in the representation from any state, the executive authority thereof shall issue writs of election to fill such vacancies. The House of Representatives shall choose their speaker and other officers ; and shall have the sole power of impeachment. SECTION 3. The Senate of the United States shall be composed of two senators from each state, chosen by the legislature thereof for six years; and each senator shall have one vote.