A Comparative View of the Constitutions of Great Britain and the United States of America: in Six LecturesLongman, 1842 - 192 páginas |
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... duty too , when the subject of our demo- lition and construction is not brick and timber , but sentient beings , by the sudden alteration of whose state , condition , and habits , multitudes may be rendered miserable . " BURKE . LONDON ...
... duty too , when the subject of our demo- lition and construction is not brick and timber , but sentient beings , by the sudden alteration of whose state , condition , and habits , multitudes may be rendered miserable . " BURKE . LONDON ...
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... , it is not because the principle involved would not lead to a dissolution , but because twelve or thirteen other states have not , like themselves , refused to perform a high constitutional duty . And why LECTURE II . 39.
... , it is not because the principle involved would not lead to a dissolution , but because twelve or thirteen other states have not , like themselves , refused to perform a high constitutional duty . And why LECTURE II . 39.
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In Six Lectures Peter Freeland Aiken. refused to perform a high constitutional duty . And why did they refuse ? Simply because they appre- hended the election to the senate of political opponents . The seats of the two Tennessee senators ...
In Six Lectures Peter Freeland Aiken. refused to perform a high constitutional duty . And why did they refuse ? Simply because they appre- hended the election to the senate of political opponents . The seats of the two Tennessee senators ...
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... duty to arouse the public mind to this subject . People say that the Euro- peans ought to make a distinction between the states and the general government . Very true - so they ought ; but what then ? Are not they all emanations from ...
... duty to arouse the public mind to this subject . People say that the Euro- peans ought to make a distinction between the states and the general government . Very true - so they ought ; but what then ? Are not they all emanations from ...
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... duties have too much reserve in their manners , and too much austerity in their principles , for them to be returned by the majority at an election where uni- versal suffrage is adopted . " M. De Tocqueville sums up his valuable remarks ...
... duties have too much reserve in their manners , and too much austerity in their principles , for them to be returned by the majority at an election where uni- versal suffrage is adopted . " M. De Tocqueville sums up his valuable remarks ...
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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 - And is it possible, that neither of these causes, that not all combined, were able to blast this bud of hope? Is it possible, that from a beginning so feeble, so frail, so worthy not so much of admiration as of pity, there has gone forth a progress so steady, a growth so wonderful, an expansion so ample, a reality so important, a promise, yet to be fulfilled, so glorious?
Página 10 - ... without shelter : without means : surrounded by hostile tribes. Shut now the volume of history, and tell me, on any principle of human probability, what shall be the fate of this handful of adventurers. Tell me, man of military science ! in how many months were they all swept off by the thirty savage tribes enumerated within the early limits of New England ? Tell me, politician ! how long did the shadow of a colony, on which your conventions and treaties had not smiled, languish on the distant...
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 46 - States, and as the facility and excess of law-making seem to be the diseases to which our governments are most liable, it is not impossible that this part of the Constitution may be more convenient in practice than it appears to many in contemplation.
Página 64 - My son, fear thou the LORD and the king : and meddle not with them that are given to change...
Página 49 - ORDER is Heaven's first law ; and this confest, Some are, and must be, greater than the rest, More rich, more wise; but who infers from hence That such are happier, shocks all common sense.
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.