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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... religion of its founders , their acquired knowl- edge , and their former habits , have exercised , and still exer- cise , independently of democracy , a vast influence upon the thoughts and feelings of that people . Different causes ...
... religion of its founders , their acquired knowl- edge , and their former habits , have exercised , and still exer- cise , independently of democracy , a vast influence upon the thoughts and feelings of that people . Different causes ...
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... religion in the United States avails itself of democratic tendencies .. CHAPTER VI Of the progress of Roman Catholicism in the United States ...... CHAPTER VII 19 21 30 Of the cause of a leaning to Pantheism amongst democratic nations ...
... religion in the United States avails itself of democratic tendencies .. CHAPTER VI Of the progress of Roman Catholicism in the United States ...... CHAPTER VII 19 21 30 Of the cause of a leaning to Pantheism amongst democratic nations ...
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... religious matters .. CHAPTER X Of the taste for physical well - being in America .. CHAPTER XI Peculiar effects of the love of physical gratifications in democratic ages CHAPTER XII Causes of fanatical enthusiasm in some Americans ...
... religious matters .. CHAPTER X Of the taste for physical well - being in America .. CHAPTER XI Peculiar effects of the love of physical gratifications in democratic ages CHAPTER XII Causes of fanatical enthusiasm in some Americans ...
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... religious ideas ? Why did Descartes , choosing only to apply his method to certain matters , though he had made it fit to be applied to all , declare that men might judge for them- selves in matters philosophical but not in matters ...
... religious ideas ? Why did Descartes , choosing only to apply his method to certain matters , though he had made it fit to be applied to all , declare that men might judge for them- selves in matters philosophical but not in matters ...
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... religion gave birth to Anglo- American society . In the United States religion is therefore commingled with all the habits of the nation and all the feelings of patriotism ; whence it derives a peculiar force . To this powerful reason ...
... religion gave birth to Anglo- American society . In the United States religion is therefore commingled with all the habits of the nation and all the feelings of patriotism ; whence it derives a peculiar force . To this powerful reason ...
Términos y frases comunes
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Página 387 - 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 379 - 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 377 - 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 385 - 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 384 - 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 112 - 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 390 - 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 382 - 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 378 - 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 378 - 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.