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... forces and powers . Many anal- yses of American character and institutions have recently been put forth , of which by far the most searching is Bryce's American Commonwealth . To rival that luminous and masterly work would be impossible ...
... forces and powers . Many anal- yses of American character and institutions have recently been put forth , of which by far the most searching is Bryce's American Commonwealth . To rival that luminous and masterly work would be impossible ...
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... force to enter the union . Two years later George Rogers Clark lopped off the southern half of the British western country . The Southwest , into which settlers had begun to penetrate in 1769 , was , during the Revolution , laid hold of ...
... force to enter the union . Two years later George Rogers Clark lopped off the southern half of the British western country . The Southwest , into which settlers had begun to penetrate in 1769 , was , during the Revolution , laid hold of ...
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... forces of Spain with those of France , in order to make head against Great Britain . As a preliminary , in 1800 he prac- tically compelled the cession of the former French province of Louisiana , and thereby revealed to the American ...
... forces of Spain with those of France , in order to make head against Great Britain . As a preliminary , in 1800 he prac- tically compelled the cession of the former French province of Louisiana , and thereby revealed to the American ...
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... force destined to bind the East and West together . After the admission of Ohio , in 1802 , there appeared as a distinct political force that region of which Bryce says , " The West may be called the most distinctly American part of ...
... force destined to bind the East and West together . After the admission of Ohio , in 1802 , there appeared as a distinct political force that region of which Bryce says , " The West may be called the most distinctly American part of ...
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... forces . For his benefit Congress abolished slavery in the District of Columbia and in the territories ; and the president , on January 1 , 1863 , declared him free within the Confederate lines . Then nearly two hundred thou- sand negro ...
... forces . For his benefit Congress abolished slavery in the District of Columbia and in the territories ; and the president , on January 1 , 1863 , declared him free within the Confederate lines . Then nearly two hundred thou- sand negro ...
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Page 59 - But in the right to eat the bread, without the leave of anybody else, which his own hand earns, he is my equal, and the equal of Judge Douglas, and the equal of every living man.
Page 320 - To-day the United States is practically sovereign on this continent, and its fiat is law upon the subjects to which it confines its interposition.
Page 360 - Ames expressed the popular security more wisely, when he compared a monarchy and a republic, saying that a monarchy is a merchantman, which sails well, but will sometimes strike on a rock and go to the bottom ; whilst a republic is a raft, which would never sink, but then your feet are always in water.
Page 79 - Nowhere in the world is presented a government of so much liberty and equality. To the humblest and poorest among us are held out the highest privileges and positions. The present moment finds me at the White House, yet there is as good a chance for your children as there was for my father's.
Page 96 - Affaires to be guided and gouerned according to such Lawes, Rules, Orders and decrees as shall be made, ordered & decreed, as followeth: — 1.
Page 189 - I have nowhere seen women occupying a loftier position ; and if I were asked, now that I am drawing to the close of this work, in which I have spoken of so many important things done by the Americans, to what the singular prosperity and growing strength of that people ought mainly to be attributed, I should reply, To the superiority of their women.
Page 11 - In Europe people talk a great deal of the wilds of America, but the Americans themselves never think about them: they are insensible to the wonders of inanimate nature, and they may be said not to perceive the mighty forests which surround them till they fall beneath the hatchet.
Page 144 - Yet, after all deductions, it ranks above every other written constitution for the intrinsic excellence of its scheme, its adaptation to the circumstances of the people, the simplicity, brevity, and precision of its language, its judicious mixture of definiteness in principle with elasticity in details.
Page 78 - I maintain that the most powerful, and perhaps the only means of interesting men in the welfare of their country, which we still possess, is to make them partakers in the government.
Page 273 - The clause to coin money must be read in connection with the prohibition upon the states to make anything but gold and silver coin a tender in payment of debts.