| 1924 - 680 pages
...it is worth remembering for Secretary Olney's restatement of the great Doctrine. 'To-day,' he wrote, 'the United States is practically sovereign on this...subjects to which it confines its interposition.' It is not necessary to inquire carefully to what subjects it will confine its interposition. Its sentiment... | |
| Arthur Irwin Street - Guyana - 1895 - 50 pages
...to succumb to the temptations offered by seeming special opportunities for its own aggrandizement, and each would rashly imperil its own safety were...largely dependent upon its own strength and power. SUPREME ON THIS CONTINENT. To-day the United States is practically sovereign on this continent, and... | |
| John Franklin Jameson, Henry Eldridge Bourne, Robert Livingston Schuyler - History - 1902 - 886 pages
...inexpedient"; that the interests " of Europe are irreconcilably diverse from those of America"; that " to-day the United States is practically sovereign...subjects to which it confines its interposition"; that it is "master of the situation." V. >!.. VII. — 6. These weighty declarations were further asserted... | |
| Berbice - 1896 - 44 pages
...liable to succumb to the temptations offered by seeming special op.porUmiUes for its own aggrandizement, and each would rashly imperil its own safety were...States is practically sovereign on this continent, and It3 fiat is law upon the subjects to which It confines its interposition. Why 1 It is not because of... | |
| Berbice - 1896 - 44 pages
...temptations offered by seeming special op.portunities for its own aggrandizement, and -18 • each vrould rashly Imperil its own safety were it not to remember...is practically sovereign on this continent, and its flat la law upon the subjects to which it confines its interposition. Why ? It Is not because of the... | |
| Rowland Rugg - Guyana - 1896 - 80 pages
...to succumb to the temptations offered by seeming special opportunities for its own aggrandizement, and each would rashly imperil its own safety were...largely dependent upon its own strength and power. DOCTRINE OF AMERICAN PUBLIC LAW. To-day the United States is practically sovereign on this Continent,... | |
| Electronic journals - 1896 - 800 pages
...American states, and, so far as I can see, over the American colonies of European powers. His words are: "To-day the United States is practically sovereign...subjects to which it confines its interposition." Leading up to this imperial utterance, he had said a few sentences back : " That distance and three... | |
| History, Modern - 1896 - 776 pages
...the temptations offered by seeming special opportunities for its own aggrandizement, and each wonld rashly imperil its own safety were it not to remember...respect of other States it must be largely dependent npon its own strength and power. To-day the United States is practically Sovereign on this continent,... | |
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