The Trumpeters of the ConstitutionUniversity of Rochester, 1927 - Počet stran: 85 |
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... ernment or the blessings of liberty can be preserved to any people but by frequent recurrence to fundamental prin- ciples . " And the next year , this senti- ment was re - echoed by John Jay , then Chief Justice of New York , who in a ...
... ernment or the blessings of liberty can be preserved to any people but by frequent recurrence to fundamental prin- ciples . " And the next year , this senti- ment was re - echoed by John Jay , then Chief Justice of New York , who in a ...
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... ernment have been proclaimed to the American people . That there should be a more general study of the lives of these men , I make my plea tonight . It was with this purpose that the wise old author of the Book of Ecclesiasticus ...
... ernment have been proclaimed to the American people . That there should be a more general study of the lives of these men , I make my plea tonight . It was with this purpose that the wise old author of the Book of Ecclesiasticus ...
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... ernment having no President and no Judiciary - a Government in which Con- gress had no power to tax or to raise troops or to regulate commerce , and no power to execute or enforce its own laws or treaties ; -a Government in which each ...
... ernment having no President and no Judiciary - a Government in which Con- gress had no power to tax or to raise troops or to regulate commerce , and no power to execute or enforce its own laws or treaties ; -a Government in which each ...
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... ernment are too obvious to be dwelt upon . Thirteen sovereignties pulling against each other , and all tugging at the Federal head , will soon bring ruin on the whole ; whereas a liberal and energetic Constitution , well guarded and ...
... ernment are too obvious to be dwelt upon . Thirteen sovereignties pulling against each other , and all tugging at the Federal head , will soon bring ruin on the whole ; whereas a liberal and energetic Constitution , well guarded and ...
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... ernment gives force to public opinion , it is essential that public opinion should be enlightened ; " and John Adams said , in his Inaugural Address as President , that to foster education was a governmental duty , not only for " its ...
... ernment gives force to public opinion , it is essential that public opinion should be enlightened ; " and John Adams said , in his Inaugural Address as President , that to foster education was a governmental duty , not only for " its ...
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Strana 30 - I confess that there are several parts of this Constitution which I do not at present approve, but I am not sure I shall never approve them. For, having lived long, I have experienced many instances of being obliged by better information, or fuller consideration, to change opinions even on important subjects which I once thought right, but found to bo otherwise. It is therefore that, the older I grow, the more apt I am to doubt my own judgment, and to pay more respect to the judgment of others.
Strana 14 - His integrity was most pure, his justice the most inflexible I have ever known, no motives of interest or consanguinity, of friendship or hatred, being able to bias his decision. He was, indeed, in every sense of the words, a wise, a good, and a great man.
Strana 44 - I know no safe depository of the ultimate powers of the society but the people themselves ; and if we think them not enlightened enough to exercise their control with a wholesome discretion, the remedy is not to take it from them, but to inform their discretion by education.
Strana 43 - 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...
Strana 15 - The prevalence of that pacific and friendly disposition among the people of the United States, which will induce them to forget their local prejudices and politics; to make those mutual concessions which are requisite to the general prosperity; and in some instances, to sacrifice their individual advantages to the interest of the community.
Strana 30 - Thus I consent, sir, to this Constitution, because I expect no better and because I am not sure that it is not the best.
Strana 19 - It is too probable that no plan we propose will be adopted. Perhaps another dreadful conflict is to be sustained. If, to please the people, we offer what we ourselves disapprove, how can we afterwards defend our work? Let us raise a standard to which the wise and honest can repair: the event is in the hands of God.
Strana 45 - And let us reflect that, having banished from our land that religious intolerance under which mankind so long bled and suffered, we have yet gained little if we countenance a political intolerance as despotic, as wicked, and capable of as bitter and bloody persecutions.
Strana 45 - 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.
Strana 28 - When a broad table is to be made, and the edges of planks do not fit, the artist takes a little from both, and makes a good joint. In like manner, here, both sides must part with some of their demands, in order that they may join in some accommodating proposition.