| Constitutional law - 1802 - 344 pages
...of an empire, in many respects, the most interesting in the world. It has been frequently remarked, that, it seems to have been reserved to the people of this country, to decide by their conduct and example, the important question, whether societies of men are really... | |
| Europe - 1811 - 558 pages
...of an empire, in many respects the most interesting in the world. It has been frequently remarked, that it seems to have been reserved to the people of this country, to decide by their conduct and example, the important question, whether societies of men are really... | |
| Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay - Constitutional history - 1817 - 570 pages
...of an empire, in many respects, the most interesting in the world. It has been frequently remarked, that it seems to have been reserved to the people of this country, to decide by their conduct and example, the important question, whether societies of men are really... | |
| James Madison, John Jay - Constitutional law - 1818 - 882 pages
...of an empire, in many respects, the most interesting in the world. It has been frequently remarked, that it seems to have been reserved to the people of this country to decide, by their conduct and example, the important question, whether societies of men are really... | |
| 1824 - 612 pages
...establishing their independence, and realizing their political theories, that ' it had been reserved for them, by their conduct and example, to decide the important...government from reflection and choice, or whether they are for ever destined to depend for their political constitution on accideut or force.' Washington himself... | |
| William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - English literature - 1824 - 616 pages
...establishing their independence, and realizing their political theories, that ' it had been reserved for them, by their conduct and example, to decide the important...government from reflection and choice, or whether they are for «ver destined to depend for their political constitution on accident or force.' Washington himself... | |
| James Madison, John Jay - Constitutional law - 1826 - 736 pages
...seems to have been reserved to the people of this country to decide, by their conduct and example, the important question, whether societies of men are...really capable or not, of establishing good government frym.tefleclittn-.aad. cln 'ii i •. or whether they are for ever destined to depend for their political... | |
| Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay - Constitutional history - 1837 - 516 pages
...of an empire, in many respects, the most interesting in the world. It has been frequently remarked, that it seems to have been reserved to the people of this country to decide, by their conduct and example, the important question, whether societies of men are really... | |
| Benjamin Franklin Hallett - Constitutional history - 1848 - 84 pages
..."All our political experiments (says Mr. Madison) rest on the capacity of mankind for self-government. It seems to have been reserved to the people of this country to decide, by their conduct and example, the important question, whether societies of men are really... | |
| Hugh Seymour Tremenheere - Constitutions - 1854 - 422 pages
...their time, asked themselves, when entering upon the great enterprise of framing a constitution, " whether societies of men are really capable or not of establishing good government by reflection and choice?" whether it is within the power of human wisdom at once to strike out a political... | |
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