Democracy in the United States: What it Has Done, what it is Doing, and what it Will Do |
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... elected in November of that year to Congress to represent St. Lawrence and Franklin Counties , and reëlected in 1834 , and served while in Congress as a member of the Committee on Com- merce ; in 1837 he was appointed by President Van ...
... elected in November of that year to Congress to represent St. Lawrence and Franklin Counties , and reëlected in 1834 , and served while in Congress as a member of the Committee on Com- merce ; in 1837 he was appointed by President Van ...
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... elected by the people every two years , from a limited territory , by nearly universal suffrage . The other branch is elected by the States , and not by the people , for a term of six years . This branch has the same functions with one ...
... elected by the people every two years , from a limited territory , by nearly universal suffrage . The other branch is elected by the States , and not by the people , for a term of six years . This branch has the same functions with one ...
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... elected by the people are believed to be wiser than the people themselves , and more com- petent to determine upon what principles laws ought to be made and public business transacted ; that it is the duty of such agents so to act as to ...
... elected by the people are believed to be wiser than the people themselves , and more com- petent to determine upon what principles laws ought to be made and public business transacted ; that it is the duty of such agents so to act as to ...
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... elected President by the House of Repre- sentatives . The Democrats nominated Jefferson for President , and Burr for ... elected . Burr and his friends manoeuvred for votes to elect him against the wishes of the electors . It was not ...
... elected President by the House of Repre- sentatives . The Democrats nominated Jefferson for President , and Burr for ... elected . Burr and his friends manoeuvred for votes to elect him against the wishes of the electors . It was not ...
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... elected by the House , and eighteen days before he was sworn into office , the Federalists having determined to enforce the Alien and Sedition Laws , and to withdraw from the State courts all business possible , and to fill the country ...
... elected by the House , and eighteen days before he was sworn into office , the Federalists having determined to enforce the Alien and Sedition Laws , and to withdraw from the State courts all business possible , and to fill the country ...
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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.