Democracy in America, Volumen2Longmans, Green, 1875 |
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... wants of man . At the head of the enlightened nations of the Old World the inhabitants of the United States more particularly distinguished one , to which they were closely united by a common origin and by kindred habits . Amongst this ...
... wants of man . At the head of the enlightened nations of the Old World the inhabitants of the United States more particularly distinguished one , to which they were closely united by a common origin and by kindred habits . Amongst this ...
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... wants , his education , and everything about him seem to unite in drawing the native of the United States earthward : his religion alone bids him turn , from time to time , a transient and distracted glance to heaven . Let us cease then ...
... wants , his education , and everything about him seem to unite in drawing the native of the United States earthward : his religion alone bids him turn , from time to time , a transient and distracted glance to heaven . Let us cease then ...
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... wants confine it to the earth ; but , as soon as the tie is loosened , it will unbend itself again . Not only will the number of those who can take an inte- rest in the productions of the mind be enlarged , but the taste for ...
... wants confine it to the earth ; but , as soon as the tie is loosened , it will unbend itself again . Not only will the number of those who can take an inte- rest in the productions of the mind be enlarged , but the taste for ...
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... wants and affected by them in the same manner . The men of whom it is composed naturally derive from their superior and hereditary position a taste for what is extremely well - made and lasting . This affects the general way of thinking ...
... wants and affected by them in the same manner . The men of whom it is composed naturally derive from their superior and hereditary position a taste for what is extremely well - made and lasting . This affects the general way of thinking ...
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... wants , which remain after the means of satisfying such wants are gone ; and they are anxiously looking out for some surreptitious method of providing for them . On the other hand , there are always in democracies a large number of men ...
... wants , which remain after the means of satisfying such wants are gone ; and they are anxiously looking out for some surreptitious method of providing for them . On the other hand , there are always in democracies a large number of men ...
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Página 343 - 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 337 - 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 336 - Trust or Profit under the United States : but the Party convicted shall nevertheless be liable and subject to Indictment, Trial, Judgment and Punishment, according to Law. SECTION 4. >The Times, Places and Manner of holding Elections for Senators and Representatives, shall be prescribed in each State by the Legislature thereof; but the Congress may at any time by Law make or alter such Regulations, except as to the places of chusing Senators.
Página 335 - 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 337 - ... to compel the attendance of absent members, in such manner, and under such penalties as each House may provide. Each House may determine the rules of its proceedings, punish its members for disorderly behaviour, and, with the concurrence of two-thirds, expel a member. Each House shall keep a journal of its proceedings, and from time to time publish the same...
Página 324 - It hath sovereign and uncontrollable authority in the making, confirming, enlarging, restraining, abrogating, repealing, reviving, and expounding of laws, concerning matters of all possible denominations, ecclesiastical, or temporal, civil, military, maritime, or criminal ; this being the place where that absolute despotic power, which must in all governments reside somewhere, is intrusted by the constitution of these kingdoms.
Página 341 - 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 States.
Página 98 - 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 336 - 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 342 - ... disagreement between them with respect to the time of adjournment, he may adjourn them to such time as he shall think proper; he shall receive ambassadors and other public ministers; he shall take care that the laws be faithfully executed, and shall commission all the officers of the United States.