The Rambler, a Catholic journal of home and foreign literature [&c.]. Vol.5-new [3rd] [Vol.11 of the new [2nd] ser. is imperf. Continued as The Home and foreign review].1861 |
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... dangers and evils which must always follow the attempt to construct a separate Catholic party without any connection with either of the great political parties which alternately govern the country . Nothing , however , was further from ...
... dangers and evils which must always follow the attempt to construct a separate Catholic party without any connection with either of the great political parties which alternately govern the country . Nothing , however , was further from ...
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... danger for themselves , and unwilling to compel them to remain , because they dread to perpetuate the tyranny of majorities . The strict prin- ciple of popular sovereignty must therefore lead to the de- struction of the state that ...
... danger for themselves , and unwilling to compel them to remain , because they dread to perpetuate the tyranny of majorities . The strict prin- ciple of popular sovereignty must therefore lead to the de- struction of the state that ...
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... danger . What motives are to restrain them ? A prudent regard to the maxim , that honesty is the best policy , is found by experience to be as little re- garded by bodies of men as by individuals . Respect 20 Political Causes of the ...
... danger . What motives are to restrain them ? A prudent regard to the maxim , that honesty is the best policy , is found by experience to be as little re- garded by bodies of men as by individuals . Respect 20 Political Causes of the ...
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... danger of the levelling spirit . " Mr. Mason " admitted that we had been too demo- cratic , but was afraid we should incautiously run into the opposite extreme . " Mr. Randolph observed " that the gene- ral object was to provide a cure ...
... danger of the levelling spirit . " Mr. Mason " admitted that we had been too demo- cratic , but was afraid we should incautiously run into the opposite extreme . " Mr. Randolph observed " that the gene- ral object was to provide a cure ...
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... dangers to the opinions and institutions which he advocated . It be- came the instrument of the popular will instead of its bar- rier ; the organ of arbitrary power instead of a security against it . There was a fundamental error and ...
... dangers to the opinions and institutions which he advocated . It be- came the instrument of the popular will instead of its bar- rier ; the organ of arbitrary power instead of a security against it . There was a fundamental error and ...
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Page 408 - My worthy colleague says, his will ought to be subservient to yours. If that be all, the thing is innocent. If government were a matter of will upon any side, yours, without question, ought to be superior. But government and legislation are matters of reason and judgment, and not of inclination...
Page 19 - A landed interest, a manufacturing interest, a mercantile interest, a moneyed interest, with many lesser interests, grow up of necessity in civilized nations, and divide them into different classes, actuated by different sentiments and views.
Page 43 - But this momentous question, like a fire-bell in the night, awakened and filled me with terror. I considered it at once as the knell of the Union. It is hushed, indeed, for the moment. But this is a reprieve only, not a final sentence.
Page 416 - And this issue embraces more than the fate of these United States. It presents to the whole family of man the question whether a constitutional republic or democracy — a government of the people by the same people — can or cannot maintain its territorial integrity against its own domestic foes.
Page 19 - It is of great importance in a republic, not only to guard the society against the oppression of its rulers; but to guard one part of the society against the injustice of the other part.
Page 19 - Providence has been pleased to give this one connected country, to one united people ; a people descended from the same ancestors, speaking the same language, professing the same religion, attached to the same principles of government, very similar in their manners and customs...
Page 416 - The policy chosen looked to the exhaustion of all peaceful measures before a resort to any stronger ones. It sought only to hold the public places and property not already wrested from the government, and to collect the revenue, relying for the rest on time, discussion, and the ballot-box.
Page 399 - And their Majesties the Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, the Emperor of Austria, the Emperor of the French, the King of Prussia, the Emperor of all the Russias, and the King of Sardinia, on the other part, engage to respect this determination of the Sultan, and to conform themselves to the principle above declared.
Page 81 - Give to Caesar what is Caesar's and to God what is God's.
Page 20 - In a free government the security for civil rights must be the same as that for religious rights. It consists in the one case in the multiplicity of interests, and in the other in the multiplicity of sects.