The American Idea as Expounded by American StatesmenJoseph Benson Gilder |
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... exist within the United States or any place subject to their jurisdic- tion . SECTION 2. Congress shall have power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation . ARTICLE XIV . SECTION I. All persons born or natural- ized in the ...
... exist within the United States or any place subject to their jurisdic- tion . SECTION 2. Congress shall have power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation . ARTICLE XIV . SECTION I. All persons born or natural- ized in the ...
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... exists in the economy and course of nature an in- dissoluble union between virtue and happi- ness , between duty and advantage , between the genuine maxims of an honest and mag- nanimous policy , and the solid rewards of public ...
... exists in the economy and course of nature an in- dissoluble union between virtue and happi- ness , between duty and advantage , between the genuine maxims of an honest and mag- nanimous policy , and the solid rewards of public ...
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... exists , till changed by an explicit and authentic act of the whole peo- ple , is sacredly obligatory upon all . The very idea of the power and the right of the peo- ple to establish Government presupposes the duty of every individual ...
... exists , till changed by an explicit and authentic act of the whole peo- ple , is sacredly obligatory upon all . The very idea of the power and the right of the peo- ple to establish Government presupposes the duty of every individual ...
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... exists under different shapes in all govern- ments , more or less stifled , controlled , or repressed ; but , in those of the popular form , it is seen in its greatest rankness , and is truly their worst enemy . The alternate domination ...
... exists under different shapes in all govern- ments , more or less stifled , controlled , or repressed ; but , in those of the popular form , it is seen in its greatest rankness , and is truly their worst enemy . The alternate domination ...
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... exists , and infusing into one the enmities of the other , betrays the former into a participation in the quarrels and wars of the latter , without adequate in- ducement or justification . It leads also to concessions to the favorite ...
... exists , and infusing into one the enmities of the other , betrays the former into a participation in the quarrels and wars of the latter , without adequate in- ducement or justification . It leads also to concessions to the favorite ...
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Page 17 - Article, of sending and receiving ambassadors; entering into treaties and alliances, provided that no treaty of commerce shall be made, whereby the legislative power of the respective States shall be restrained from imposing such imposts and duties on foreigners, as their own people are subjected to, or from prohibiting the exportation or importation of any species of goods or commodities whatsoever...
Page 180 - The progress of our arms, upon which all else chiefly depends, is as well known to the public as to myself; and it is, I trust, reasonably satisfactory and encouraging to all. With high hope for the future, no prediction in regard to it is ventured.
Page 177 - Why should there not be a patient confidence in the ultimate justice of the people? Is there any better or equal hope in the world? In our present differences is either party without faith of being in the right? If the Almighty Ruler of Nations, with his eternal truth and justice, be on your side of the North, or on yours of the South, that truth and that justice will surely prevail by the judgment of this great tribunal of the American people.
Page 69 - ... the propitious smiles of Heaven can never be expected on a nation that disregards the eternal rules of order and right, which Heaven itself has ordained; and since the preservation of the sacred fire of liberty, and the destiny of the republican model of government, are justly considered as deeply, perhaps -&& finally staked on the experiment intrusted to the hands of the American people.
Page ix - Promote, then, as an object of primary importance, institutions for the general diffusion of knowledge. In proportion as the structure of a government gives force to public opinion, it is essential that public opinion should be enlightened.
Page 207 - A spirit pervaded all ranks, not transient, not boisterous, but deep, solemn, determined, "totamque infusa per artus Mens agitat molem, et magno se corpore miscet.
Page 182 - With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right, let us strive...
Page 12 - Full faith and credit shall be given in each of these States to the records, acts, and judicial proceedings, of the courts and magistrates of every other State.
Page 96 - Towards the preservation of your government, and the permanency of your present happy state, it is requisite not only that you steadily discountenance irregular oppositions to its acknowledged authority, but also that you resist with care the spirit of innovation upon its principles, however specious the pretexts. One method of assault may be to effect in the forms of the Constitution alterations which will impair the energy of the system, and thus to undermine what cannot be directly overthrown.
Page 97 - It is, indeed, little else than a name, where the government is too feeble to withstand the enterprises of faction, to confine each member of the society within the limits prescribed by the laws, and to maintain all in the secure and tranquil enjoyment of the rights of person and property.