Remarks on the Statistics and Political Institutions of the United States: With Some Observations on the Ecclesiastical System of America, Her Sources of Revenue, &c. To which are Added Statistical Tables, &cJ. Rodwell, 1832 - 208 páginas |
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... • CHAPTER XIV . Future financial prospects of the United States . - Military ex- penses . - Naval expenses . - Cost of administration of justice . -Salaries of the clergy 117 CHAPTER XV . Ecclesiastical revenues of the United States . xiii.
... • CHAPTER XIV . Future financial prospects of the United States . - Military ex- penses . - Naval expenses . - Cost of administration of justice . -Salaries of the clergy 117 CHAPTER XV . Ecclesiastical revenues of the United States . xiii.
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... salary , the number of senators and representatives , with their respective terms and pay in the different States 196 Statement , showing the aggregate number of persons in each of the States , according to the fifth census , and ...
... salary , the number of senators and representatives , with their respective terms and pay in the different States 196 Statement , showing the aggregate number of persons in each of the States , according to the fifth census , and ...
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... salaries for fees in all the collection districts , by which , at a comparatively small expense to the trea- sury , commerce and navigation would be relieved from burthens , always inconvenient , if not oppres- sive . " " It is believed ...
... salaries for fees in all the collection districts , by which , at a comparatively small expense to the trea- sury , commerce and navigation would be relieved from burthens , always inconvenient , if not oppres- sive . " " It is believed ...
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... salary of a minister from the United States to any foreign court is about 2000l . , with an outfit of the same sum . The ... salaries of the American foreign ministers has long been felt in the United States ; but it is very difficult to ...
... salary of a minister from the United States to any foreign court is about 2000l . , with an outfit of the same sum . The ... salaries of the American foreign ministers has long been felt in the United States ; but it is very difficult to ...
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... salaries which are paid out of it , far from being subjected to a rigorous economy , are almost in every case higher than those paid for the correspond- ing services in France . " " The political communities , which have lately been ...
... salaries which are paid out of it , far from being subjected to a rigorous economy , are almost in every case higher than those paid for the correspond- ing services in France . " " The political communities , which have lately been ...
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Página 24 - Observe good faith and justice towards all Nations. Cultivate peace and harmony with all. Religion and morality enjoin this conduct; and can it be that good policy does not equally enjoin it? It will be worthy of a free> enlightened, and, at no distant period, a great nation, to give to mankind the magnanimous and too novel example of a People always guided by an exalted justice and benevolence.
Página 25 - Antipathy in one nation against another, disposes each more readily to offer insult and injury, to lay hold of slight causes of umbrage, and to be haughty and intractable when accidental or trifling occasions of dispute occur. Hence frequent collisions, obstinate, envenomed, and bloody contests. The nation, prompted by ill-will and resentment, sometimes impels to war the government, contrary to the best calculations of policy.
Página 25 - The Nation, which indulges towards another an habitual hatred, or an habitual fondness, is in some degree a slave. It is a slave to its animosity or to its affection, either of which is sufficient to lead it astray from its duty and its interest.
Página 26 - The great rule of conduct for us in regard to foreign nations is, in extending our commercial relations to have with them as little political connection as possible.
Página 37 - That the Supreme Court shall have exclusive jurisdiction of all controversies of a civil nature, where a state is a party, except between a state and its citizens; and except also between a state and citizens of other states, or aliens, in which latter case it shall have original but not exclusive jurisdiction.
Página 136 - An ordinance for ascertaining the mode of disposing of lands in the Western Territory...
Página 137 - States were bound, in good faith, to extinguish the Indian title to lands within the limits of Georgia, so soon as it could be done peaceably and on reasonable terms.
Página 37 - And it shall have exclusively all such jurisdiction of suits or proceedings against ambassadors or other public ministers, or their domestics or domestic servants, as a court of law can have consistently with the law of nations; and original but not exclusive jurisdiction of all suits brought by ambassadors or other public ministers, or in which a consul or vice-consul is a party.
Página 26 - ... facility to betray or sacrifice the interests of their own country without odium, sometimes even with popularity ; gilding with the appearances of a virtuous sense of obligation, a commendable deference for public opinion, or a laudable zeal for public good, the base or foolish compliances of ambition, corruption, or infatuation.
Página 27 - Why forego the advantages of so peculiar a situation ? Why quit our own to stand upon foreign ground ? Why, by interweaving our destiny with that of any part of Europe, entangle our peace and prosperity in the toils of European ambition, rivalship, interest, humor, or caprice?