 | William Henry Herndon, Jesse William Weik - 1889 - 288 pages
...insists, " was dictated, as I understand it, by the following reasons : kings had always been involving and impoverishing their people in wars, pretending...the power of bringing this oppression upon us. But 283 your view destroys the whole matter, and places our President where kings have always stood." In... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - Readers - 1911 - 190 pages
...Congress was dictated, as I understand it, by the following reasons : Kings had always been invo.lv- s ing and impoverishing their people in wars, pretending...resolved to so frame the. Constitution that no one man 10 should hold the power of bringing this oppression upon us. But your view destroys the whole matter,... | |
 | William Estabrook Chancellor - Executive power - 1912 - 616 pages
...ground that Polk acted like a King, not like a President. "Kings," he wrote, "had always been involving and impoverishing their people in wars, pretending...always, that the good of the people was the object." Lincoln made in Congress a rather more important figure than was usual even then for a member in his... | |
 | Rose Strunsky - Presidents - 1914 - 392 pages
...insists, " was dictated, as I understand it, by the following reasons: kings had always been involving and impoverishing their people in wars, pretending...oppressive of all kingly oppressions; and they resolved so to frame the Constitution that no man should hold the power of bringing this oppression upon us.... | |
 | VICTOR L. BERGER - 1919 - 934 pages
...Conpress was dictated, ns I understand it, by the following reasons: Kings nnd always been involving and impoverishing their people In wars, pretending...be the most, oppressive of all kingly oppressions, und they resolved to so frame the Constitution that no man should hold the power of bringing this oppression... | |
 | Irving Bacheller - American fiction - 1919 - 464 pages
...reasons: kings had always been involving and impoverishing their people in wars, pretending generally that the good of the people was the object. This our...most oppressive of all kingly oppressions and they proposed to so frame the constitution that no man should hold the power of bringing this oppression... | |
 | Clark Prescott Bissett - Presidents - 1923 - 266 pages
...Congress was dictated, as I understand it, by the following reasons: Kings had always been involving and impoverishing their people in wars, pretending...they resolved to so frame the Constitution that no man should hold the power of bringing this oppression upon us. But your view, ie, ' that the President... | |
 | Rubin Gotesky, Ervin Laszlo - History - 1970 - 404 pages
...Congress, was dictated, as I understand it, by the following reasons. Kings had always been involving and impoverishing their people in wars, pretending...oppressive of all Kingly oppressions; and they resolved so to frame the Constitution that no one man should hold the power of bringing this oppression upon... | |
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Kings had always been involving and impoverishing their people in wars, pretending generally, if not always, that the good of the people was the object. This, our Convention understood to be the most oppressive of all Kingly oppressions, and they resolved... 
