The American Politician; Containing the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution of the United States, the Inaugural and First Annual Addresses and Messages of All the Presidents, and Other Important State Papers; Together with a Selection of ... Statistical Tables, and Biographical Notices of the Signers of the Declaration of Independence, the Several Presidents, Etc. Third EditionE. Leland and W. J. Whiting, 1842 - 552 pages |
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... institution of a national university ; or by any other expedients , will be well worthy of a place in the delibera- tions of the legislature . Gentlemen of the House of Representatives : I saw with peculiar pleasure , at the close of ...
... institution of a national university ; or by any other expedients , will be well worthy of a place in the delibera- tions of the legislature . Gentlemen of the House of Representatives : I saw with peculiar pleasure , at the close of ...
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... institutions ; that experience is the surest standard by which to test the real tendency of the existing constitutions of a country ; that facility in changes , upon the credit of mere hypothesis and opinion , exposes to perpetual ...
... institutions ; that experience is the surest standard by which to test the real tendency of the existing constitutions of a country ; that facility in changes , upon the credit of mere hypothesis and opinion , exposes to perpetual ...
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... institutions , and to progress , without inter- ruption , to that degree of strength and constancy , which is necessary to give it , humanly speaking , the command of its own fortune . Though , in reviewing the incidents of my ...
... institutions , and to progress , without inter- ruption , to that degree of strength and constancy , which is necessary to give it , humanly speaking , the command of its own fortune . Though , in reviewing the incidents of my ...
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... institutions established in remote antiquity , than when it springs fresh from the hearts and judgments of an honest and enlightened people ? For it is the people only that are represented it is their power and majesty that is reflected ...
... institutions established in remote antiquity , than when it springs fresh from the hearts and judgments of an honest and enlightened people ? For it is the people only that are represented it is their power and majesty that is reflected ...
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... institution for propagating knowledge , virtue , and religion , among all classes of the people , not only for their benign influence on the happiness of life in all its stages and classes , and of society in all its forms , but as the ...
... institution for propagating knowledge , virtue , and religion , among all classes of the people , not only for their benign influence on the happiness of life in all its stages and classes , and of society in all its forms , but as the ...
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