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... Legislature , or , as he would prefer to put it , " the politicians , " in trade and commerce . He will not waste much time in simple denunciation of a med- dling tendency ; but , as a man of commercial talent , he is firmly convinced ...
... Legislature , or , as he would prefer to put it , " the politicians , " in trade and commerce . He will not waste much time in simple denunciation of a med- dling tendency ; but , as a man of commercial talent , he is firmly convinced ...
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... legislature or Congress has the support of the people in nearly every instance . They know that compliance on his part with the majority in his party , the legislature or Congress would be easy , while resistance is more or less ...
... legislature or Congress has the support of the people in nearly every instance . They know that compliance on his part with the majority in his party , the legislature or Congress would be easy , while resistance is more or less ...
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... legislatures when they deprive cities of the choice of their police commissions . Mr. Bryce would distinguish between the senti- mental and the rational ground of the laissez - faire principle , the former being an intense feeling of ...
... legislatures when they deprive cities of the choice of their police commissions . Mr. Bryce would distinguish between the senti- mental and the rational ground of the laissez - faire principle , the former being an intense feeling of ...
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... legislature encour- ages tree - planting ; if , as in New Hampshire , wood- chucks are superabundant , it offers a bounty on their destruction , in both cases , with the entire acquies- cence of the people . - Practically , then , we ...
... legislature encour- ages tree - planting ; if , as in New Hampshire , wood- chucks are superabundant , it offers a bounty on their destruction , in both cases , with the entire acquies- cence of the people . - Practically , then , we ...
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... legislature toward theoretical socialism . In fact , socialism has been little known , and less understood , in the United States , down to a compar- atively recent period . Within this period , there has been no change in the general ...
... legislature toward theoretical socialism . In fact , socialism has been little known , and less understood , in the United States , down to a compar- atively recent period . Within this period , there has been no change in the general ...
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Page 308 - Must a government of necessity be too strong for the liberties of its own people, or too weak to maintain its own existence?
Page 171 - ... the preservation of the general government in its whole constitutional vigor, as the sheet anchor of our peace at home and safety abroad...
Page 139 - Promote, then, as an object of primary importance, institutions for the general diffusion of knowledge. In proportion as the structure of a government gives force to public opinion, it is essential that public opinion should be enlightened.
Page 320 - Every state is a community of some kind, and every community is established with a view to some good; for mankind always act in order to obtain that which they think good. But, if all communities aim at some good, the state or political community, which is the highest of all, and which embraces all the rest, aims at good in a greater degree than any other, and at the highest good.
Page 228 - To show that the aim of socialism is embraced in the aim of Christianity. 2. To awaken members of Christian churches to the fact that the teachings of Jesus Christ lead directly to some specific form or forms of socialism...
Page 61 - May we not even say, that that form of government is the best, which provides the most effectually for a pure selection of these natural aristoi into the offices of government ? The artificial aristocracy is a mischievous ingredient in government, and provision should be made to prevent its ascendency.
Page 61 - There is what I call the American idea. . . . This idea demands, as the proximate organization thereof, a democracy, that is, a government of all the people, by all the people, for all the people...
Page 170 - About to enter, fellow-citizens, on the exercise of duties which comprehend everything dear and valuable to you, it is proper you should understand what I deem the essential principles of our government, and, consequently, those which ought to shape its administration. I will compress them within the narrowest compass they will bear, stating the general principle, but not all its limitations. Equal and exact justice to all men, of whatever state or persuasion, religious or political: peace, commerce,...
Page 222 - Socialist," their organ, was stated to be to "diffuse the principles of cooperation by the practical application of Christianity to the purposes of trade and industry.
Page 295 - So that it become, in practical result, what in essential fact and justice it ever is, a joint enterprise; all men, from the Chief Master down to the lowest Overseer and Operative, economically as well as loyally concerned for it? — Which question I do not answer. The answer, near or else far, is perhaps, Yes ; — and yet one knows the difficulties. Despotism is essential in most enterprises ; I am told, they do not tolerate ' freedom of debate ' on board a Seventy-four ! Republican senate and...