 | Charles J. McClain - History - 1994 - 400 pages
...hard, and were unhampered by unequal laws.172 Andrew Jackson himself put it this way: "[If government] would confine itself to equal protection, and as heaven...the rich and the poor, it would be an unqualified economic blessing."173 Jacksonian ideology continued to loom large in the post-Civil War period, perhaps... | |
 | Philip Abbott - Biography & Autobiography - 1996 - 302 pages
...time nor the means of securing like favors to themselves, have a right to complain of the injustice of government. Its evils exist only in its abuses. If...Heaven does its rains, shower its favors alike on high and the low, the rich and the poor, it would be an unqualified blessing. In the act before me... | |
 | Free enterprise - 1997 - 446 pages
...Bryant (New York, 1883) i, 253-54. 'would confine itself to equal protection, and, as Heaven does it rains, shower its favors alike on the high and the low, the rich and the poor...'.108 As the 'commonwealth' ideal eroded in the 1830s and after, Democrats, especially... | |
 | Mark Graber - Social Science - 1999 - 255 pages
...privileges. Andrew Jackson's influential veto in 1832 of the Bank Bill contended that government must "confine itself to equal protection, and, as Heaven...its favors alike on the high and the low, the rich and the poor."24 Mid-nineteenth-century thinkers used similar phrases when censuring laws that gave... | |
 | Marvin Olasky - History - 2000 - 324 pages
...He argued that government should "confine itself to equal protection, and, as Heaven does its rain, shower its favors alike on the high and the low, the rich and the poor." The bank, he went on to argue, proceeded on a different principle: It did not help some... | |
 | Marianne Williamson - Body, Mind & Spirit - 2000 - 292 pages
...humble members of society . . . have a right to complain of the injustice of their Government. There are no necessary evils in government. Its evils exist only in its abuses. It is time to pause in our career to review our principles, and if possible revive that devoted patriotism... | |
 | Lawrence A. Peskin - Business & Economics - 2003 - 322 pages
...Government was not inherently the problem, Jackson would explain in his famous bank veto message: "There are no necessary evils in government. Its evils exist...and the poor, it would be an unqualified blessing." The problem was that the tariff, according to its opponents, granted welcome rain to only the privileged... | |
 | Randall B. Woods - History - 2003 - 340 pages
...of government in the wrong hands. "There are no necessary evils in government," Jackson had stated, "its evils exist only in its abuses. If it would confine...and the poor, it would be an unqualified blessing." 37 The ideas of Jefferson and Jackson remained strongly imbedded in the political culture of the Upper... | |
 | Michael Waldman - 363 pages
...Hi'.v abundant goodness and their patrioticdevotion our liberty and Union will be preserved. "There are no necessary evils in government. Its evils exist only in its abuses." ANDREW JACKSON "DISUNION BY ARMED FORCE IS TREASON" THROUGH ITS FIRST DECADES, the United States felt... | |
 | David Edwin Harrell, Edwin S. Gaustad, John B. Boles, Sally Foreman Griffith - History - 2005 - 860 pages
...like favors to themselves, have a right to complain of the injustice of their government. There are no necessary evils in government. Its evils exist...would be an unqualified blessing. In the act before me [for rechartering the BUS] there seems to be a wide and unnecessary departure from these just principles... | |
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... make the rich richer, and the potent more powerful, the humble members of society, the farmers, mechanics, and laborers, who have neither the time nor the means of securing like favors to themselves, have a right to complain of the injustice of their... 
