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... duty of his work -that of comparative research ; and that his capacity to judge American politics has thereby been ... duties ? Instead of viii PREFACE .
... duty of his work -that of comparative research ; and that his capacity to judge American politics has thereby been ... duties ? Instead of viii PREFACE .
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... duty to do all that is necessary for the common good of all sections of the Union , and to do nothing against any section which it would not think rightful to do against every other . And this collective will must rest on a public mind ...
... duty to do all that is necessary for the common good of all sections of the Union , and to do nothing against any section which it would not think rightful to do against every other . And this collective will must rest on a public mind ...
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... duty and obligation ? An English - bred lawyer may well frame and have enacted such legal rules ; but American jurists should have risen to higher concep- tions , and saved the country and the new citizen the smile of derision that ...
... duty and obligation ? An English - bred lawyer may well frame and have enacted such legal rules ; but American jurists should have risen to higher concep- tions , and saved the country and the new citizen the smile of derision that ...
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... duty to discharge any function imposed either by appoint- ment or election was therefore suspended . First it was a relaxation of an obliga- tion to hold office during life , if this was deemed useful to the state by the authorities or ...
... duty to discharge any function imposed either by appoint- ment or election was therefore suspended . First it was a relaxation of an obliga- tion to hold office during life , if this was deemed useful to the state by the authorities or ...
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... duty of a people , so to act , as to deserve their freedom . To remove all doubt upon this subject , the Congress that passed the declaration also announced to the world that the new republic admitted itself subject to the law of ...
... duty of a people , so to act , as to deserve their freedom . To remove all doubt upon this subject , the Congress that passed the declaration also announced to the world that the new republic admitted itself subject to the law of ...
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Page 570 - My paramount object in this struggle is to save the Union, and is not either to save or destroy slavery. If I could save the Union without freeing any slave, I would do it...
Page 287 - It shall be the duty of the Legislature to provide for the organization of cities and incorporated villages, and to restrict their power of taxation, assessment, borrowing money, contracting debts, and loaning their credit, so as to prevent abuses in assessments and in contracting debt by such municipal corporations...
Page 369 - The credit of the State shall not, in any manner, be given or loaned to, or in aid of, any individual, association or corporation...
Page 590 - The body politic is formed by a voluntary association of individuals: it is a social compact, by which the whole people covenants with each citizen, and each citizen with the whole people, that all shall be governed by certain laws for the common good.
Page 341 - 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 57 - And Whereas it hath pleased the Great Governor of the World to incline the hearts of the legislatures we respectively represent in congress, to approve of, and to authorize us to ratify the said articles of confederation and perpetual union.
Page 279 - God, and for the support and maintenance of public Protestant teachers of piety, religion, and morality, in all cases where such provision shall not be made voluntarily.
Page 316 - The duties of all public officers are, or, at least, admit of being made, so plain and simple, that men of intelligence may readily qualify themselves for their performance...
Page 454 - Towards the preservation of your government and the permanency of your present happy state, it is requisite, not only that you steadily discountenance irregular oppositions to its acknowledged authority, but also that you resist with care the spirit of innovation upon its principles, however specious the pretexts. One method of assault may be to effect, in the forms of the Constitution, alterations which will impair the energy of the system; and thus to undermine what cannot be directly overthrown.
Page 93 - May next, to take into consideration the situation of the United States, to devise such further provisions as shall appear to them necessary to render the constitution of the federal government adequate to the exigencies of the union...