A Constitutional History of the American People, 1776-1850, Volume 1Harper & Brothers, 1898 - Constitutional history |
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Page vii
... legislative , and judicial . And , finally , the evidence suggests , what seems to escape the attention often- times not merely of individuals , but also of masses of men - that government is made for man , and man not merely for ...
... legislative , and judicial . And , finally , the evidence suggests , what seems to escape the attention often- times not merely of individuals , but also of masses of men - that government is made for man , and man not merely for ...
Page ix
... legislative functions , in judicial organ- ization , in public finance , in local government , and in provisions for free schools . By 1850 the first wave of population had passed across the continent from the Atlantic to the Pacific ...
... legislative functions , in judicial organ- ization , in public finance , in local government , and in provisions for free schools . By 1850 the first wave of population had passed across the continent from the Atlantic to the Pacific ...
Page xv
... legislative systems compared The difficulties in fixing a basis of representation . Conservatism of early democracy 56 65 66 67 The qualifications of members of the Assembly Legislative procedure borrowed from England The test of ...
... legislative systems compared The difficulties in fixing a basis of representation . Conservatism of early democracy 56 65 66 67 The qualifications of members of the Assembly Legislative procedure borrowed from England The test of ...
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... legislative chambers Spread of the democratic spirit over America Birth of the American legislature . . . Government not directly founded on the people . How the colonies became States The procedure abnormal Congress advises the ...
... legislative chambers Spread of the democratic spirit over America Birth of the American legislature . . . Government not directly founded on the people . How the colonies became States The procedure abnormal Congress advises the ...
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... legislative , the ex- ecutive , and the judiciary prove to be temporary . Nearly every provision in the various declarations of rights has proved to be essential to the stabil- ity of representative government . The growth of our bills ...
... legislative , the ex- ecutive , and the judiciary prove to be temporary . Nearly every provision in the various declarations of rights has proved to be essential to the stabil- ity of representative government . The growth of our bills ...
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Page 401 - Those who labor in the earth are the chosen people of God, if ever he had a chosen people, whose breasts he has made his peculiar deposit for substantial and genuine virtue.
Page 158 - Under the Articles of Confederation each State retained its sovereignty, freedom, and independence, and every power, jurisdiction, and right not expressly delegated to the United States.
Page 290 - Every man is said to have his peculiar ambition. Whether it be true or not, I can say, for one, that I have no other so great as that of being truly esteemed of my fellow-men, by rendering myself worthy of their esteem. How far I shall succeed in gratifying this ambition is yet to be developed.
Page 402 - The mobs of great cities add just so much to the support of pure government, as sores do to the strength of the human body.
Page 292 - Consequently I go for admitting all whites to the right of suffrage, who pay taxes or bear arms, (by no means excluding females...
Page 198 - No person who acknowledges the being of a God, and a future state of rewards and punishments, shall, on account of his religious sentiments, be disqualified to hold any office or place of trust or profit under this Commonwealth.
Page 289 - Upon the subject of education, not presuming to dictate any plan or system respecting it, I can only say that I view it as the most important subject which we, as a people, can be engaged in.
Page 420 - The better to secure and perpetuate mutual friendship and intercourse among the people of the different States in this Union, the free inhabitants of each of these States, (paupers, vagabonds, and fugitives from justice excepted,) shall be entitled to all privileges and immunities of free citizens in the several States...
Page 290 - I can only say that I view it as the most important subject which we as a people can be engaged in. That every man may receive at least a moderate education, and thereby be enabled to read the histories of his own and other countries, by which he may duly appreciate the value of our free institutions...
Page 401 - ... the proportion which the aggregate of the other classes of citizens bears in any state to that of its husbandmen, is the proportion of its unsound to its healthy parts, and is a good-enough barometer whereby to measure its degree of corruption.