A Comparative View of the Constitutions of Great Britain and the United States of America: In Six LecturesLongman and Company, 1842 - 192 páginas |
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... effects are manifest in the unfettered activity which prevails in this country . Even in undertakings of great magnitude , which are rather national than merely local , as railways , the legislature gives full scope to individual ...
... effects are manifest in the unfettered activity which prevails in this country . Even in undertakings of great magnitude , which are rather national than merely local , as railways , the legislature gives full scope to individual ...
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... effect the measures of the legislature , but they sometimes appoint special agents for that purpose . He may suspend their measures by his veto . In the administration of affairs in the counties and towns , he never interferes except to ...
... effect the measures of the legislature , but they sometimes appoint special agents for that purpose . He may suspend their measures by his veto . In the administration of affairs in the counties and towns , he never interferes except to ...
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... effect a complete revolution in the habits , in the customs , and in the genius of the nation . Deeply engaged in imitating the great model , copies of sovereignty were formed , observe that a confederacy of republics would be quite ...
... effect a complete revolution in the habits , in the customs , and in the genius of the nation . Deeply engaged in imitating the great model , copies of sovereignty were formed , observe that a confederacy of republics would be quite ...
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... most part by universal suf- frage and by ballot . Let us consider the effect of this system in America . M. De Tocqueville has observed that owing to the frequency of elections , society in America is kept in LECTURE III . 45.
... most part by universal suf- frage and by ballot . Let us consider the effect of this system in America . M. De Tocqueville has observed that owing to the frequency of elections , society in America is kept in LECTURE III . 45.
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... effects of the mutability in the public councils arising from a rapid succession of new members would fill a volume . Every new election in the states is found to change one half of the representatives . From this change of men must ...
... effects of the mutability in the public councils arising from a rapid succession of new members would fill a volume . Every new election in the states is found to change one half of the representatives . From this change of men must ...
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Página 140 - What then? notwithstanding, every way, whether in pretence or in truth, Christ is preached; and I therein do rejoice, yea, and will rejoice.
Página 10 - Was it the winter's storm, beating upon the houseless heads of women and children ; was it hard labor and spare meals ; was it disease ; was it the tomahawk ; was it the deep malady of a blighted hope- a ruined enterprise, and a broken heart, aching in its last moments, at the recollection of the loved and left beyond the sea ; was it some, or all of these united, that hurried this forsaken company to their melancholy fate...
Página 58 - But authoritative instructions; mandates issued, which the member is bound blindly and implicitly to obey, to vote, and to argue for, though contrary to the clearest conviction of his judgment and conscience, these are things utterly unknown to the laws of this land, and which arise from a fundamental mistake of the whole order and tenor of our Constitution.
Página 178 - Even so the tongue is a little member, and boasteth great things. Behold, how great a matter a little fire kindleth ! And the tongue is a fire, a world of iniquity. So is the tongue among our members, that it defileth the whole body, and setteth on fire the course of nature; and it is set on fire of hell.
Página 9 - IN THE NAME OF GOD, AMEN. We whose names are underwritten, the loyal subjects of our dread sovereign lord King James, by the grace of God of Great Britain, France, and Ireland, king, defender of the faith, etc. Having undertaken, for the glory of God and advancement of the Christian faith and honor of our king and country, a voyage to plant the first colony in the northern parts of Virginia...
Página 64 - My son, fear thou the LORD and the king : and meddle not with them that are given to change...
Página 153 - It is a melancholy truth that a suppression of the press could not more completely deprive the nation of its benefits than is done by its abandoned prostitution to falsehood. Nothing can now be believed which is seen in a newspaper. Truth itself becomes suspicious by being put into that polluted vehicle.
Página 122 - Thus saith the Lord, Let not the wise man glory in his wisdom, neither let the mighty man glory in his might, let not the rich man glory in his riches : but let him that glorieth glory in this, that he understandeth and knoweth Me, that I am the Lord which exercise lovingkindness, judgment, and righteousness, in the earth : for in these things I delight, saith the Lord.
Página 148 - The state of civil society, which necessarily generates this aristocracy, is a state of nature; and much more truly so than a savage and incoherent mode of life. For man is by nature reasonable ; and he is never perfectly in his natural state, but when he is placed where reason may be best cultivated, and most predominates.
Página 166 - But ye shall not be so : but he that is greatest among you, let him be as the younger ; and he that is chief, as he that doth serve. For whether is greater, he that sitteth at meat, or he that serveth ? is not he that sitteth at meat? But I am among you as he that serveth.