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Page vii
... reason , that the political premises and ideas on which they have acted , and which once the world applauded , are now seen to be erroneous and productive of great evils . The author had to presume , that a people thus situated , would ...
... reason , that the political premises and ideas on which they have acted , and which once the world applauded , are now seen to be erroneous and productive of great evils . The author had to presume , that a people thus situated , would ...
Page viii
... reason can be no other , than their occupying a position and having a culture , that enabled them to see without bias , and to comprehend men and things without national prejudice . While composing the several chapters , the author ...
... reason can be no other , than their occupying a position and having a culture , that enabled them to see without bias , and to comprehend men and things without national prejudice . While composing the several chapters , the author ...
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... reason . The rightful motive of inter - state unions is the imparting of a higher civic virtue , just as the true induce- ment for social interhabitation is the genesis of better morals . Individuals submit to society in order to ...
... reason . The rightful motive of inter - state unions is the imparting of a higher civic virtue , just as the true induce- ment for social interhabitation is the genesis of better morals . Individuals submit to society in order to ...
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... reason why the area of the present United States is our country , and in the best sense of the word . We have heard a side - denial of this , on the ground that the Union has no spot on which can be erected the permanent capital of the ...
... reason why the area of the present United States is our country , and in the best sense of the word . We have heard a side - denial of this , on the ground that the Union has no spot on which can be erected the permanent capital of the ...
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... reason of its conduct , the answer : Car - tel est notre plaisir . But in America , it appears to be held , that there may be such arbitrary power and yet freedom : provided it is exercised by the sovereign people . This idea rests on ...
... reason of its conduct , the answer : Car - tel est notre plaisir . But in America , it appears to be held , that there may be such arbitrary power and yet freedom : provided it is exercised by the sovereign people . This idea rests on ...
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Page 570 - My paramount object in this struggle is to save the Union, and is not either to save or destroy slavery. If I could save the Union without freeing any slave, I would do it...
Page 287 - It shall be the duty of the Legislature to provide for the organization of cities and incorporated villages, and to restrict their power of taxation, assessment, borrowing money, contracting debts, and loaning their credit, so as to prevent abuses in assessments and in contracting debt by such municipal corporations...
Page 369 - The credit of the State shall not, in any manner, be given or loaned to, or in aid of, any individual, association or corporation...
Page 590 - The body politic is formed by a voluntary association of individuals: it is a social compact, by which the whole people covenants with each citizen, and each citizen with the whole people, that all shall be governed by certain laws for the common good.
Page 341 - Promote, then, as an object of primary importance, institutions for the general diffusion of knowledge. In proportion as the structure of a government gives force to public opinion, it is essential that public opinion should be enlightened.
Page 57 - And Whereas it hath pleased the Great Governor of the World to incline the hearts of the legislatures we respectively represent in congress, to approve of, and to authorize us to ratify the said articles of confederation and perpetual union.
Page 279 - God, and for the support and maintenance of public Protestant teachers of piety, religion, and morality, in all cases where such provision shall not be made voluntarily.
Page 316 - The duties of all public officers are, or, at least, admit of being made, so plain and simple, that men of intelligence may readily qualify themselves for their performance...
Page 454 - Towards the preservation of your government and the permanency of your present happy state, it is requisite, not only that you steadily discountenance irregular oppositions to its acknowledged authority, but also that you resist with care the spirit of innovation upon its principles, however specious the pretexts. One method of assault may be to effect, in the forms of the Constitution, alterations which will impair the energy of the system; and thus to undermine what cannot be directly overthrown.
Page 93 - May next, to take into consideration the situation of the United States, to devise such further provisions as shall appear to them necessary to render the constitution of the federal government adequate to the exigencies of the union...