The Irresistible Movement of DemocracyMacmillan, 1923 - 729 páginas |
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... universal suffrage . How this movement began , what were the forces which led to its expansion , how it gradually emerged from the old society , is the story of the development of political ideas and the realisa- tion of these ideas in ...
... universal suffrage . How this movement began , what were the forces which led to its expansion , how it gradually emerged from the old society , is the story of the development of political ideas and the realisa- tion of these ideas in ...
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... universal and irresistible , was at hand " ; and in his first introduction , written in 1835 , he ventured to make this prediction : " The gradual development of the principle of Equality is a providential fact . It has all the chief ...
... universal and irresistible , was at hand " ; and in his first introduction , written in 1835 , he ventured to make this prediction : " The gradual development of the principle of Equality is a providential fact . It has all the chief ...
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... universal suffrage . The ideas of the constitution were in advance of the age and its ideals of self - government were not capable of realisation in a nation which was still swayed by monarchical principles . While the ideas have a ...
... universal suffrage . The ideas of the constitution were in advance of the age and its ideals of self - government were not capable of realisation in a nation which was still swayed by monarchical principles . While the ideas have a ...
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... universal and wide- spread , that the British Parliament realised that it could not be enforced without invoking civil war . The new ministry under the Marquis of Rockingham determined to repeal it . In the course of the debate on the ...
... universal and wide- spread , that the British Parliament realised that it could not be enforced without invoking civil war . The new ministry under the Marquis of Rockingham determined to repeal it . In the course of the debate on the ...
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... universal rejoicings and men paid little heed to the declaratory Act so long as it was not exercised . But unfortunately the ministry under the leadership of Townshend , who was Chancellor of the Exchequer , introduced another measure ...
... universal rejoicings and men paid little heed to the declaratory Act so long as it was not exercised . But unfortunately the ministry under the leadership of Townshend , who was Chancellor of the Exchequer , introduced another measure ...
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Términos y frases comunes
Adams administration advocated agitation alarmed America aristocracy Chamber citizens classes clergy colonies committee Congress Constitution convention court danger debate Declaration of Rights decree defeat delegates demand democracy democratic movement deputies effect election electors England equality established favour fear Federal Federalists forces France franchise French French Revolution Girondists Histoire Hôtel de Ville House of Commons House of Lords Ibid ideas influence insurrection interest issue Jackson Jacobin Club Jacobins Jefferson king Labour Lafayette leaders legislation legislature liberal liberty London Corresponding Society Lord Louis Blanc majority measures meeting ment ministers ministry Mirabeau monarchy National Assembly National Guard Necker opposed opposition organised Paris Parliament passed political popular President principles proposed public opinion question radical recognised representatives republic Revolution royal Senate slavery social socialists society spirit States-General Tiers Etat tion troops Union universal suffrage veto vote Whig workingmen
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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.