 Empire " is misleading, because it makes people think that we are one community, to which the word " Empire " can appropriately be applied. Germany is an empire. Rome was an empire. India is an empire. But we are a system of nations. We are not a state,...  Australia: Economic and Political Studies - Strana 416upravili: - 1920 - 518 str.Úplné zobrazení - Podrobnosti o knize
 | Meredith Atkinson - 1920 - 550 str.
...Federation " in the Australian Worker, January and February, 1917. (cc) Cf. General Smuts: — "I thinK the very expression ' Empire' is misleading, because...is an Empire. B.ut we are a system •of nations. WP are not 'a State, but a community of States and nations. We are far greater than any Empire which... | |
 | Charles Ghequiere Fenwick - 1920 - 360 str.
...last paragraph says, ' by the several governments ' of the empire." And again, on another occasion, " we are a system of nations. We are not a state, but a community of states and nations." On the other hand there is a group of federalists who urge that the only stable union that can be established... | |
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