 | Percy Alport Molteno - Constitutional history - 1896 - 330 pages
...this union may be effected ? We are not called upon to face for the first time the great problem " whether societies of men are really capable or not...government from reflection and choice, or whether they are for ever destined to depend for their political constitution on accident and force." This has been... | |
 | Franklin Verzelius Newton Painter - American literature - 1897 - 554 pages
...which it is composed, the fate of an empire, in many respects, the most interesting in the world.3 It has been frequently remarked, that it seems to...political constitutions, on accident and force. If there be4 any truth in the remark, the crisis at which we are arrived may, with propriety, be regarded as... | |
 | Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay - Constitutional law - 1901 - 520 pages
...attempt to frame a constitution on rational principles. " It has been frequently remarked," they say, " that it seems to have been reserved to the people...their political constitutions on accident and force." This is not strictly in accordance with fact. Besides the constitutions framed by lawgivers such as... | |
 | Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay - Constitutional law - 1901 - 536 pages
...attempt to frame a constitution on rational principles. " It has been frequently remarked," they say, " that it seems to have been reserved to the people...their political constitutions on accident and force." This is not strictly in accordance with fact. Besides the constitutions framed by lawgivers such as... | |
 | Constitutional law - 1901 - 486 pages
...seems to have been reserved to the people of this country, by their conduct and example, to decide the important question, whether societies of men are...government from reflection and choice, or whether they -C. are forever destined to depend for their political constitutions on accident and force. If there... | |
 | Lorenzo Sears - American literature - 1902 - 506 pages
...seems to have been reserved to the people of this country, by their conduct and example, to decide the important question whether societies of men are...their political constitutions on accident and force. The crisis at which we are arrived may with propriety be regarded as the era in which that decision... | |
 | Franklin Verzelius Newton Painter - American literature - 1903 - 600 pages
...respects, the most interesting in the world.3 It has been frequently remarked, that it seems to have oeen reserved to the people of this country to decide,...political constitutions, on accident and force. If there be4 any truth in the remark, the crisis at which we are arrived may, with propriety, be regarded as... | |
 | Herbert David Croly - United States - 1911 - 498 pages
...first number of the Federalist, "to the people of this country by their conduct and example, to decide the important question whether societies of men are...their political constitutions on accident and force." Americans deliberately selected the better part. It is true that the evil effects of a loose union... | |
 | Charles William Eliot - America - 1910 - 508 pages
...seerns to have been reserved to the people of this country, by their conduct and example, to decide the important question, whether societies of men are...are arrived, may with propriety be regarded as the aera in which that decision is to be made; and a wrong election of the part we shall act, may, in this... | |
 | America - 1910 - 508 pages
...seems to have been reserved to the people of this country, by their conduct and example, to decide the important question, whether societies of men are...are arrived, may with propriety be regarded as the asra in which that decision is to be made; and a wrong election of the part we shall act, may, in this... | |
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It has been frequently remarked that it seems to have been reserved to the people of this country, by their conduct and example, to decide the important question, whether societies of men are really capable or not of establishing good government from... 
