The Irresistible Movement of DemocracyMacmillan, 1923 - 729 páginas |
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... followed the example of Boston and organised committees of correspondence . These committees formed centres not only for expressing , but for creating public opinion . Adams next turned his attention to the other colonies and wrote to ...
... followed the example of Boston and organised committees of correspondence . These committees formed centres not only for expressing , but for creating public opinion . Adams next turned his attention to the other colonies and wrote to ...
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... followed in other states and especially in Virginia , it was the means by which the Feder- alists secured the victory . Nevertheless the conflicts in the states had brought to light the antagonism between the different classes of ...
... followed in other states and especially in Virginia , it was the means by which the Feder- alists secured the victory . Nevertheless the conflicts in the states had brought to light the antagonism between the different classes of ...
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... followed by all the Presidents and was an established custom until the administration of Woodrow Wilson . The appearance of the President before Congress had been the occa- sion of much display and , in Jefferson's eyes , it savoured of ...
... followed by all the Presidents and was an established custom until the administration of Woodrow Wilson . The appearance of the President before Congress had been the occa- sion of much display and , in Jefferson's eyes , it savoured of ...
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... followed ; but , after an extended trial , the prosecu- tion failed to establish the fact that he had been guilty of mis- demeanours justifying removal from the bench . These trials , however , expressed the hatred of the Republicans to ...
... followed ; but , after an extended trial , the prosecu- tion failed to establish the fact that he had been guilty of mis- demeanours justifying removal from the bench . These trials , however , expressed the hatred of the Republicans to ...
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... followed him and poured into the building and created 19 Newton Thorpe , " Statesmanship of Andrew Jackson , " pp . 31-4 . 11 Bassett , " Life of Jackson , " Vol . II . , p . 421 , 12 Ibid . , p . 422 . a scene of unutterable confusion ...
... followed him and poured into the building and created 19 Newton Thorpe , " Statesmanship of Andrew Jackson , " pp . 31-4 . 11 Bassett , " Life of Jackson , " Vol . II . , p . 421 , 12 Ibid . , p . 422 . a scene of unutterable confusion ...
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Términos y frases comunes
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Página 125 - We are now far into the fifth year since a policy was initiated with the avowed object and confident promise of putting an end to slavery agitation. Under the operation of that policy, that agitation has not only not ceased, but has constantly augmented. In my opinion, it will not cease until a crisis shall have been reached and passed. "A house divided against itself cannot stand.
Página 81 - Equal and exact justice to all men, of whatever state or persuasion, religious or political; peace, commerce, and honest friendship with all nations, entangling alliances with none; the support of the State governments in all their rights, as the most competent administrations for our domestic concerns and the surest bulwarks against anti-republican tendencies; the preservation of the general government in its whole constitutional vigor, as the sheet anchor of our peace at home and safety abroad...
Página 132 - I shall have the most solemn one to "preserve, protect, and defend it." I am loath to close. We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained it must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic chords of memory, stretching from every battlefield and patriot grave to every living heart and hearthstone all over this broad land, will yet swell the chorus of the Union, when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature.
Página 18 - THE SACRED RIGHTS OF MANKIND ARE NOT TO BE RUMMAGED FOR AMONG OLD PARCHMENTS OR MUSTY RECORDS. THEY ARE WRITTEN, AS WITH A SUNBEAM, IN THE WHOLE VOLUME OF HUMAN NATURE, BY THE HAND OF THE DIVINITY ITSELF ; AND CAN NEVER BE ERASED OR OBSCURED BY MORTAL POWER.
Página 127 - Neither let us be slandered from our duty by false accusations against us, nor frightened from it by menaces of destruction to the government, nor of dungeons to ourselves. Let us have faith that right makes might, and in that faith let us to the end dare to do our duty as we understand it.
Página 82 - Still one thing more, fellowcitizens — a wise and frugal government, which shall restrain men from injuring one another, which shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned.
Página 30 - All men are born free and equal, and have certain natural, essential, and unalienable rights; among which may be reckoned the right of enjoying and defending their lives and liberties; that of acquiring, possessing, and protecting property; in fine, that of seeking and obtaining their safety and happiness.
Página 132 - Must a government of necessity be too strong for the liberties of its own people, or too weak to maintain its own existence?
Página 16 - That the foundation of English liberty, and of all free government, is a right in the people to participate in their legislative council...
Página 81 - If there be any among us who would wish to dissolve this Union, or to change its republican form, let them stand, undisturbed, as monuments of the safety with which error of opinion may be tolerated where reason is left free to combat it.