The Works of Orestes A. Brownson: PoliticsT. Nourse, 1885 |
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... friends and neighbors , and taking it for granted that the war was wholly unnecessary and unjust , made the grand discovery in moral theology that war is malum in se , is always unneces- sary , and can never be lawful . They without ...
... friends and neighbors , and taking it for granted that the war was wholly unnecessary and unjust , made the grand discovery in moral theology that war is malum in se , is always unneces- sary , and can never be lawful . They without ...
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... friends , -certainly , no one distinguished for his bold and resolute opposition to abolition movements . In the Whig party the tendency to abolitionism , or to court the abolitionists , is , perhaps , still more decided than in the ...
... friends , -certainly , no one distinguished for his bold and resolute opposition to abolition movements . In the Whig party the tendency to abolitionism , or to court the abolitionists , is , perhaps , still more decided than in the ...
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... friends of the South , that there shall be no further extension of the slave territory of the Union , and no more slave states admitted into the Union . Whatever we may think of such a determination itself , we regard it as madness to ...
... friends of the South , that there shall be no further extension of the slave territory of the Union , and no more slave states admitted into the Union . Whatever we may think of such a determination itself , we regard it as madness to ...
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... friends attempt ed , in the case of Rhode Island , to effect a change by pop- ular , instead of legal authority , and failed . This is strictly true of all the old thirteen colonies , as nobody can pretend to deny . With regard to the ...
... friends attempt ed , in the case of Rhode Island , to effect a change by pop- ular , instead of legal authority , and failed . This is strictly true of all the old thirteen colonies , as nobody can pretend to deny . With regard to the ...
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... friend of his country , the man of his times , worthy of universal honor , and the highest offices in the gift of a free people . What will be the end it is not difficult to experienced SLAVERY AND THE MEXICAN WAR . 39.
... friend of his country , the man of his times , worthy of universal honor , and the highest offices in the gift of a free people . What will be the end it is not difficult to experienced SLAVERY AND THE MEXICAN WAR . 39.
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Página 16 - Let every soul be subject to higher powers : for there is no power but from God; and those that are, are ordained of God.
Página 199 - Useful and necessary changes in legislation and administration," says the Laybach Circular of May, 1821, "ought only to emanate from the free will and intelligent conviction of those whom God has rendered responsible for power; all that deviates from this line necessarily leads to disorder, commotions, and evils far more insufferable than those which they pretend to remedy.
Página 302 - And the better to obtain this effect, both parties oblige themselves expressly to restrain, by force, all hostilities on the part of the Indian nations living within their boundary : so that Spain will not suffer her Indians to attack the citizens of the United States, nor the Indians inhabiting their territory; nor will the United States permit these last mentioned Indians to commence hostilities against the subjects of his catholic majesty, or his Indians, in any manner whatever.
Página 196 - ... constitutions themselves are wholly founded, they could not but command the warm sympathy of the people of this country. Well-known circumstances in their history, indeed their whole history, have made them the representatives of purely popular principles of government. In this light they now stand before the world. They could not, if they would, conceal their character, their condition, or their destiny.
Página 198 - These declarations amount to nothing less than a denial of the lawfulness of the origin of the government of the United States, since it is certain that that government was established in consequence of a change which did not proceed from thrones or the permission of crowned heads. But the government of the United States heard these denunciations of its fundamental principles without remonstrance, or the disturbance of its equanimity.
Página 184 - Of course, questions of prudence naturally arise in reference to new states, brought by successful revolutions into the family of nations; but it is not to be required of neutral powers that they should await the recognition of the new government by the parent state. No principle of public law has been more frequently acted upon, within the last thirty years, by the great powers of the world than this. Within that period eight or ten new states have established independent governments within the...
Página 316 - ... by all means in their power, to protect and defend all vessels and other effects belonging to the citizens or subjects of the other, which shall be within the extent of their jurisdiction by sea or by land, and shall use all their efforts to recover and cause to be restored to the right owners their vessels and effects which may have been taken from them within the extent of their said jurisdiction, whether they are at war or not with the power whose subjects have taken possession of the said...
Página 22 - Alio modo leges possunt esse injustae per contrarietatem ad bonum divinum, sicut leges tyrannorum inducentes ad idololatriam, vel ad quodcumque aliud quod sit contra legem divinam, et tales leges nullo modo licet observare, quia sicut dicitur Act.
Página 46 - ... The judges are not appointed for the same terms, nor is the jurisdiction which they exercise part of the judicial power conferred by the constitution or the general government. The courts are the legislative courts of the territories, created in virtue of the clause which authorizes Congress to make all needful rules and regulations respecting the territories belonging to the United States.
Página 190 - A spy is a person sent by one belligerent to gain secret information of the forces and defences of the other, to be used for hostile purposes. According to practice, he may use deception, under the penalty of being lawfully hanged if detected. To give this odious name and character to a confidential agent of a neutral power, bearing the commission of his country, and sent for a purpose fully warranted by the law of nations, is not only to abuse language, but also to confound all just ideas, and to...