Reassessing the Presidency: The Rise of the Executive State and the Decline of FreedomJohn V. Denson Ludwig von Mises Institute, 2001 - 791 páginas |
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... tion . They are present both in despotic and in democratic gov- ernments . Democracy too is not divine . We shall later deal with the benefits that society derives from democratic government . 17 Sprading , ed . , Liberty and the Great ...
... tion . They are present both in despotic and in democratic gov- ernments . Democracy too is not divine . We shall later deal with the benefits that society derives from democratic government . 17 Sprading , ed . , Liberty and the Great ...
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... tion , as written by our Founders , is now in shreds and all but forgotten . No longer do presidents go to Congress to ask for a declaration of war . They simply send troops where and when they please throughout the world . Rarely does ...
... tion , as written by our Founders , is now in shreds and all but forgotten . No longer do presidents go to Congress to ask for a declaration of war . They simply send troops where and when they please throughout the world . Rarely does ...
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... tion , taking the view that any given inflation , if highly predictable , will be anticipated by economic agents , reducing if not eliminating most of the adverse effects of the inflation . 15A special problem exists for the Washington ...
... tion , taking the view that any given inflation , if highly predictable , will be anticipated by economic agents , reducing if not eliminating most of the adverse effects of the inflation . 15A special problem exists for the Washington ...
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... tion : George Washington goes from 5th to 22nd , which may be very unfair given the particularly dubious quality of the data in that era , and Bill Clinton goes from being tied for 15th to 27th , which we subjectively view as very fair ...
... tion : George Washington goes from 5th to 22nd , which may be very unfair given the particularly dubious quality of the data in that era , and Bill Clinton goes from being tied for 15th to 27th , which we subjectively view as very fair ...
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... tion and restriction of liberty in order to combat speculative dangers . 6 These remarks have at least the appearance of dogmatism , and they are advanced rather to indicate a viewpoint than to make a case . One illustration of how such ...
... tion and restriction of liberty in order to combat speculative dangers . 6 These remarks have at least the appearance of dogmatism , and they are advanced rather to indicate a viewpoint than to make a case . One illustration of how such ...
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Página 457 - Europe has a set of primary interests which to us have none or a very remote relation. Hence she must be engaged in frequent controversies, the causes of which are essentially foreign to our concerns. Hence, therefore, it must be unwise in us to implicate ourselves by artificial ties in the ordinary vicissitudes of her politics or the ordinary combinations and collisions of her friendships or enmities.
Página 65 - That the Government created by this compact was not made the exclusive or final judge of the extent of the powers delegated to itself; since that would have made its discretion, and not the Constitution, the measure of its powers; but that as in all other cases of compact among parties having no common judge, each party has an equal right to judge for itself, as well of infractions, as of the mode and measure of redress.
Página 242 - The power confided to me will be used to hold, occupy, and possess the property and places belonging to the government, and to collect the duties and imposts; but beyond what may be necessary for these objects, there will be no invasion, no using of force against or among the people anywhere.
Página 456 - Against the insidious wiles of foreign influence, (I conjure you to believe me, fellow citizens,) the jealousy of a free people ought to be CONSTANTLY awake; since history and experience prove that foreign influence is one of the most baneful foes of republican government.
Página 736 - ... exert all its power and employ all its resources to bring the Government of the German Empire to terms and end the war.
Página 236 - Any people anywhere, being inclined and having the power, have the right to rise up and shake off the existing government, and form a new one that suits them better. This is a most valuable, a most sacred right — a right which, we hope and believe, is to liberate the world.
Página 278 - The provision of the Constitution giving the warmaking power to Congress was dictated, as I understand it, by the following reasons: Kings had always been involving and impoverishing their people in wars, pretending generally, if not always, that the good of the people was the object. This our convention understood to be the most oppressive of all kingly oppressions, and they resolved to so frame the Constitution that no one man should hold the power of bringing this oppression upon us.
Página 43 - If we remain one people, under an efficient government, the period is not far off when we may defy material injury from external annoyance; when we may take such an attitude as will cause the neutrality we may at any time resolve upon to be scrupulously respected...
Página 723 - to raise and support Armies" and "to provide and maintain a Navy.
Página 57 - I know that the acquisition of Louisiana has been disapproved by some, from a candid apprehension that the enlargement of our territory would endanger its union. But who can limit the extent to which the federative principle may operate effectively? The larger our association, the less will it be shaken by local passions ; and in any view, is it not better that the opposite bank of the Mississippi should be settled by our own brethren and children, than by strangers of another family?