Eloquence of the United States, Volumen1E. & H. Clark, 1827 - 517 páginas |
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... means of farther association . " The expanding quality of such a government is peculiarly fitted for the United States , the greatest part of whose territory is yet un- cultivated . 66 But while this form of government enabled us to ...
... means of farther association . " The expanding quality of such a government is peculiarly fitted for the United States , the greatest part of whose territory is yet un- cultivated . 66 But while this form of government enabled us to ...
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... means goes far enough . Is the executive power of Great Britain founded on representation ? This is not pretended . Before the revolution , many of the kings claimed to reign by divine right , and others by hereditary right ; and even ...
... means goes far enough . Is the executive power of Great Britain founded on representation ? This is not pretended . Before the revolution , many of the kings claimed to reign by divine right , and others by hereditary right ; and even ...
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... means exag- gerated . When we had baffled all the menaces of foreign power , we neglected to establish among our- selves a government , that would ensure domestic vigor and stability . What was the consequence ? The commencement of ...
... means exag- gerated . When we had baffled all the menaces of foreign power , we neglected to establish among our- selves a government , that would ensure domestic vigor and stability . What was the consequence ? The commencement of ...
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... means of removing them . For the confirmation of these remarks , I need not appeal to an enumeration of facts . The proceedings of Congress , and of the several states , are replete with them . They all point out the weakness and ...
... means of removing them . For the confirmation of these remarks , I need not appeal to an enumeration of facts . The proceedings of Congress , and of the several states , are replete with them . They all point out the weakness and ...
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... means of supporting itself a government that can exist only by the sword ? Every such war must involve the innocent with the guilty . This single consideration should be sufficient to dispose every peaceable citizen against such a ...
... means of supporting itself a government that can exist only by the sword ? Every such war must involve the innocent with the guilty . This single consideration should be sufficient to dispose every peaceable citizen against such a ...
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Página 451 - Such a nation might truly say to corruption, thou art my father, and to the worm, thou art my mother and my sister.
Página 84 - That government is, or ought to be, instituted for the common benefit, protection, and security, of the people, nation, or community...
Página 253 - I have, in obedience to the publick summons, repaired to the present station, it would be peculiarly improper to omit, in this first official act, my fervent supplications to that Almighty Being, who rules over the universe, who presides in the councils of nations, and whose providential aids can supply every human defect, that his benediction may consecrate to the liberties and happiness of the people of the United States, a government instituted by themselves for these essential purposes, and may...
Página ii - In conformity to the Act of Congress of the United States, entitled, " An Act for the encouragement of learning, by securing the copies of Maps, Charts, and Books, to the authors and proprietors of such copies, during the times therein mentioned.
Página 91 - That all power of suspending laws, or the execution of laws, by any authority, without consent of the representatives of the people, is injurious to their rights, and ought not to be exercised.
Página 95 - If your American chief be a man of ambition and abilities, how easy is it for him to render himself absolute! The army is in his hands, and if he be a man of address, it will be attached to him, and it will be the subject of long meditation with him to seize the first auspicious moment to accomplish his design...
Página 466 - If a preference, upon principle, of a free republican government, formed upon long and serious reflection, after a diligent and impartial inquiry after truth ; if an attachment to the constitution of the United States, and a conscientious determination to support it...
Página 94 - This constitution is said to have beautiful features; but when I come to examine these features, sir, they appear to me horribly frightful: among other deformities it has an awful squinting; it squints toward monarchy; and does not this raise indignation in the breast of every true American...
Página 454 - On this subject you need not suspect any deception on your feelings. It is a spectacle of horror, which cannot be overdrawn.
Página 450 - It is painful, I hope it is superfluous, to make even the supposition, that America should furnish the occasion of this opprobrium. No, let me not even imagine, that a republican government, sprung, as our own is, from a people enlightened and uncorrupted, a government whose origin is right, and whose daily discipline is duty, can, upon solemn debate, make its option to be faithless; can dare to act what despots dare not avow, what our own example evinces the states of Barbary are unsuspected of.