| Henry Flanders - Constitutional law - 1999 - 314 pages
...already intimated to you the danger of parties in the state, with particular reference to the founding of them on geographical discriminations. Let me now take...and -warn you, in the most solemn 'manner, against Hhe baneful effect of the spirit of party generally. This spirit, unfortunately, is inseparable from... | |
| Alexander Yakobson - History - 1999 - 264 pages
...Washington had to say on the subject of "spirit of party" in his farewell address: "Let me now. . . warn you in the most solemn manner against the baneful effects of the spirit of party... It serves always to distract public councils and enfeeble the public administration. It agitates the... | |
| Philip Davies - Political Science - 1999 - 258 pages
...change his opinion even after eight years as President, using his farewell address to warn his listeners 'in the most solemn manner against the baneful effects of the spirit of party generally','4 American political parties developed nevertheless, if hesitatingly and subject to considerable... | |
| David Brion Davis, Steven Mintz - History - 1998 - 607 pages
...pretexts I have already intimated to you the danger of parties in the State, with particular reference to founding them on geographical discriminations. Let...of Party, generally. This spirit, unfortunately, is insepatable from our nature, having its root in the strongest passions of the human mind. It exists... | |
| Marianne Williamson - Body, Mind & Spirit - 2000 - 292 pages
...afterwards the very engines which have lifted them to unjust dominion. He added, "Let me now . . . warn you in the most solemn manner against the baneful effects of the spirit of party." The failure of American politics to engage us fully is not an inherent weakness in the American system... | |
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