The Political Thought of American Statesmen: Selected Writings and SpeechesMorton J. Frisch, Richard G. Stevens |
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... course , precisely to guard against such a state of dormant warfare that The Federalist Papers claim the Constitution is established and the central government is endowed with energy . The Civil War had to be fought to give the ...
... course , precisely to guard against such a state of dormant warfare that The Federalist Papers claim the Constitution is established and the central government is endowed with energy . The Civil War had to be fought to give the ...
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... course as the course of the present government of the United States . To hold to that course our constitutional democratic form of government must meet the insistence of the great mass of our people that economic and social security and ...
... course as the course of the present government of the United States . To hold to that course our constitutional democratic form of government must meet the insistence of the great mass of our people that economic and social security and ...
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... course , a form of intellectual indulgence , sometimes called the law of imita- tion . " [ T ] raditions which no longer meet their original end " must be sub- jected to the critique of history whereby we are enabled " to make up our ...
... course , a form of intellectual indulgence , sometimes called the law of imita- tion . " [ T ] raditions which no longer meet their original end " must be sub- jected to the critique of history whereby we are enabled " to make up our ...
Contents
INTRODUCTION | 1 |
The Founding | 2 |
THOMAS JEFFERSON 17431826 | 6 |
Copyright | |
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