The Political Thought of American Statesmen: Selected Writings and SpeechesMorton J. Frisch, Richard G. Stevens |
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... become obsolete , and the Constitution , through the exercise of construction , in the end utterly subverted . Let us examine the case . The disease is , that a majority of the States , through the General Government , by construction ...
... become obsolete , and the Constitution , through the exercise of construction , in the end utterly subverted . Let us examine the case . The disease is , that a majority of the States , through the General Government , by construction ...
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... becoming the promise of general liberty : or , rather , it is only part of a great whole vastly larger than itself . Schools ... become a school . The air is alive with the multitudinous voices of information . Steady trade - winds of ...
... becoming the promise of general liberty : or , rather , it is only part of a great whole vastly larger than itself . Schools ... become a school . The air is alive with the multitudinous voices of information . Steady trade - winds of ...
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... become a people's war , and peoples of all sorts and races , of every degree of power and variety of fortune , are involved in its sweeping processes of change and settlement . We came into it when its character had become fully defined ...
... become a people's war , and peoples of all sorts and races , of every degree of power and variety of fortune , are involved in its sweeping processes of change and settlement . We came into it when its character had become fully defined ...
Contents
INTRODUCTION | 1 |
The Founding | 2 |
THOMAS JEFFERSON 17431826 | 6 |
Copyright | |
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