Democracy, Liberty, and Property: Readings in the American Political TraditionFrancis William Coker |
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Page 185
... experience ; and , of all experience , our own , if it have been long enough to give the principle a fair trial , should be most decisive . This provision has existed for forty years ; and while so many gentlemen contend that it is ...
... experience ; and , of all experience , our own , if it have been long enough to give the principle a fair trial , should be most decisive . This provision has existed for forty years ; and while so many gentlemen contend that it is ...
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... experience of democracy on its westward march . This experience has been wrought into the very warp and woof of American thought . Even those masters of industry and capital who have risen to power by the conquest of Western resources ...
... experience of democracy on its westward march . This experience has been wrought into the very warp and woof of American thought . Even those masters of industry and capital who have risen to power by the conquest of Western resources ...
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... experience in affairs so much as particular qualities of mind and character which we are at least as likely to find outside the ranks of our public men as within them . " Six years later he was elected President after an experience of ...
... experience in affairs so much as particular qualities of mind and character which we are at least as likely to find outside the ranks of our public men as within them . " Six years later he was elected President after an experience of ...
Contents
PREFACE | 1 |
From A Modell of Christian Charity 1603 | 17 |
THE FUNDAMENTAL AGREEMENT OF NEW HAVEN 1639 | 26 |
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