 | Shearer Davis Bowman - 1993 - 374 páginas
...ideas entertained by him and most of the leading statesmen at the time of the formation of the old (US) constitution, were that the enslavement of the African was in violation of the laws of nature; and that it was wrong in principle, socially, morally, and politically." The new Confederate government,... | |
 | Jon L. Wakelyn - 1996 - 456 páginas
...stands, may be doubted. The prevailing ideas entertained hy him and most of the leading statesmen at the time of the formation of the old Constitution were, that the enslavement of the African ISMS in violation, of the laws of nature; that it was wrong in principle, socially, morally and politically.... | |
 | Jay Monaghan - 1997 - 538 páginas
...the next to highest authority. The extract said in part : "The prevailing ideas entertained ... at the time of the formation of the old Constitution,...in principle, socially, morally, and politically. . . . "Our new government is founded upon exactly the opposite idea ; its foundations are laid, its... | |
 | John Clay Smith - 2000 - 364 páginas
...revolution. The prevailing ideas entertained by Thomas Jefferson and most of the leading statesmen at the time of the formation of the old Constitution...in principle, socially, morally, and politically. And then he goes on to say: Our new Government is founded upon exactly the opposite idea. Its foundations... | |
 | Stephen M. Feldman - 2000 - 285 páginas
...revolution. . . . The prevailing ideas entertained by him [Jefferson] and most of the leading statesmen at the time of the formation of the old constitution, were that the enslavement of the African was . . . wrong in principle, socially, morally, and politically. . . . This was an error. . . . Our new... | |
 | Bertrand Russell - 2001 - 532 páginas
...struggle: The pievailing ideas entertained by him [Jefferson] and most of the leading statesmen at the time of the formation of the old Constitution,...in principle, socially, morally, and politically. . . . Our new government is founded upon exactly the opposite idea; its foundations are laid, its corner-stone... | |
 | Walter Berns - 2002 - 164 páginas
...most of the leading statesmen at the time of the formation of the [Constitution of the United States], were that the enslavement of the African was in violation...in principle, socially, morally, and politically." But, unlike Lincoln, who made the same point in his opening lines at Gettysburg, Stephens said these... | |
 | Sharon R. Krause - 2002 - 294 páginas
...March of 1861: The prevailing ideas entertained by [Jefferson] and most of the leading statesmen at the time of the formation of the old constitution,...wrong in principle, socially, morally, and politically . . . Those ideas, however, were fundamentally wrong. They rested upon the assumption of the equality... | |
 | G. S. Boritt - 2001 - 356 páginas
...particular system of political morality, or any other morality for that matter. "The prevailing ideas ... at the time of the formation of the old Constitution...the African was in violation of the laws of nature," Stephens said on March 21, 1861. "Those ideas; however, were fundamentally wrong. They rested upon... | |
 | Hondon B. Hargrove - 2003 - 274 páginas
...among us — the proper "status" of the Negro in our form of civilization. The prevailing ideas at the time of the formation of the old constitution...in "principle," socially, morally and politically. Those ideas were fundamentally wrong. They rested upon the assumption of the equality of the races.... | |
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The prevailing ideas entertained by him and most of the leading statesmen at the time of the formation of the old Constitution, were that the enslavement of the African was in violation of the laws of nature — that it was wrong in principle, socially,... 
