Democracy in the United States: What it Has Done, what it is Doing, and what it Will Do |
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... South Carolina , for Vice - President , the former receiving sixty - five and the latter sixty - four votes . Messrs . Jefferson and Burr having an equal number of votes , the House had to select between them . The will of the majority ...
... South Carolina , for Vice - President , the former receiving sixty - five and the latter sixty - four votes . Messrs . Jefferson and Burr having an equal number of votes , the House had to select between them . The will of the majority ...
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... south of thirty - one degrees north latitude , extend ing from the Mississippi River east to Pearl River . All south and west was claimed by Spain . The road from the thirty - first degree to the mouth of the Mississippi was through ...
... south of thirty - one degrees north latitude , extend ing from the Mississippi River east to Pearl River . All south and west was claimed by Spain . The road from the thirty - first degree to the mouth of the Mississippi was through ...
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... South ? Have we no Moses who is inspired by the God of our fathers and will lead us out of Egypt ? " A hand - bill at Newburyport stated : " You have reposed con- fidence in a coward ” ( Jefferson ) . ..... Nerve your arms with ...
... South ? Have we no Moses who is inspired by the God of our fathers and will lead us out of Egypt ? " A hand - bill at Newburyport stated : " You have reposed con- fidence in a coward ” ( Jefferson ) . ..... Nerve your arms with ...
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... south of these , lent freely , but soon be- came exhausted . New England institutions , by way of punish- ment for lending the Government , pressed them and forced them into the suspension of specie payments . We have seen that a leader ...
... south of these , lent freely , but soon be- came exhausted . New England institutions , by way of punish- ment for lending the Government , pressed them and forced them into the suspension of specie payments . We have seen that a leader ...
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... South Carolina , and died at the Hermitage , in Tennessee , on the 8th day of June , 1845. He commenced the study of the law in North Carolina in 1784 , was admitted in 1786 , and removed to Nash- ville , Tennessee , and began practice ...
... South Carolina , and died at the Hermitage , in Tennessee , on the 8th day of June , 1845. He commenced the study of the law in North Carolina in 1784 , was admitted in 1786 , and removed to Nash- ville , Tennessee , and began practice ...
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Page 22 - Still one thing more, fellow-citizens — a wise and frugal Government, which shall restrain men from injuring one another, shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned.
Page 22 - Equal and exact justice to all men, of whatever state or persuasion, religious or political; peace, commerce, and honest friendship with all nations, entangling alliances with none; the support of the State governments in all their rights, as the most competent administrations for our domestic concerns and the surest bulwarks against anti-republican tendencies; the preservation of the general government in its whole constitutional vigor, as the sheet anchor of our peace at home and safety abroad...
Page 406 - The Congress shall have power to dispose of and make all needful rules and regulations respecting the territory or other property belonging to the United States ; and nothing in this Constitution shall be so, construed as to prejudice any claims of the United States, or of any particular state. SECTION 4. The United States shall guarantee to every state in this Union, a republican form of government, and shall protect each of them against invasion, and on application of the legislature, or of the...
Page 169 - It is justly so ; for it is a main pillar in the edifice of your real independence, the support of your tranquillity at home, your peace abroad ; of your safety ; of your prosperity; of that very liberty which you so highly prize. But as it is easy to foresee, that from different causes, and from different quarters, much pains will be taken, many artifices employed, to weaken in your minds the conviction of this truth : as this is the point in your political fortress against which the batteries of...
Page 169 - As a very important source of strength and security, cherish public credit. One method of preserving it is to use it as sparingly as possible, avoiding occasions of expense by cultivating peace; but remembering also, that timely disbursements to prepare for danger, frequently prevent much greater disbursements to repel it...
Page 108 - Our policy in regard to Europe, which was adopted at an early stage of the wars which have so long agitated that quarter of the globe, nevertheless remains the same, which is, not to interfere in the internal concerns of any of its powers...
Page 404 - No Person shall be a Senator who shall not have attained to the Age of thirty Years, and been nine Years a Citizen of the United States, and who shall not, when elected, be an Inhabitant of that State for which he shall be chosen.
Page 242 - That the maintenance inviolate of the rights of the States, and especially the right of each State to order and control its own domestic institutions according to its own judgment exclusively...
Page 108 - It is impossible that the allied powers should extend their political system to any portion of either continent without endangering our peace and happiness; nor can any one believe that our southern brethren, if left to themselves, would adopt it of their own accord. It is equally impossible, therefore, that we should behold such interposition in any form with indifference.
Page 246 - Apprehension seems to exist among the people of the Southern States, that, by the accession of a Republican Administration, their property and their peace and personal security are to be endangered. There has never been any reasonable cause for such apprehension. Indeed, the most ample evidence to the contrary has all the while existed, and been open to their inspection. It is found in nearly all the published speeches of him who now addresses yon.