We and Our GovernmentAmerican viewpoint society, a department of Boni & Liveright, Incorporated, 1922 - Počet stran: 223 |
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... Democracy is team work on a great scale . It is a great society composed of individual citizens , organized to be a political WE ... A Democracy is a country owned and managed by all its adult citizens through their government . That we ...
... Democracy is team work on a great scale . It is a great society composed of individual citizens , organized to be a political WE ... A Democracy is a country owned and managed by all its adult citizens through their government . That we ...
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... into a political body in order to form rules for the general good of all . And here , too , we note the need of obedience to these common laws . Spirit of Democracy These documents bear the spirit of democracy. 20 WE AND OUR GOVERNMENT.
... into a political body in order to form rules for the general good of all . And here , too , we note the need of obedience to these common laws . Spirit of Democracy These documents bear the spirit of democracy. 20 WE AND OUR GOVERNMENT.
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Jeremiah Whipple Jenks, Rufus Daniel Smith Donald Farquharson Stewart. Spirit of Democracy These documents bear the spirit of democracy . Both con- tain the essential idea of democ- racy . The Constitution of the United States begins ...
Jeremiah Whipple Jenks, Rufus Daniel Smith Donald Farquharson Stewart. Spirit of Democracy These documents bear the spirit of democracy . Both con- tain the essential idea of democ- racy . The Constitution of the United States begins ...
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... Democracy We must not forget that America is the first great successful Democracy , and that for scores of years after its foundation the rest of the world prophe- sied its failure . But it did not fail . American Democracy spread . The ...
... Democracy We must not forget that America is the first great successful Democracy , and that for scores of years after its foundation the rest of the world prophe- sied its failure . But it did not fail . American Democracy spread . The ...
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... democracy , but we seldom take the trouble to find out what they really mean . How many of us can tell what a monarchy is ? There are the mon- archies of Great There are different ways of carrying on the business of a nation just as ...
... democracy , but we seldom take the trouble to find out what they really mean . How many of us can tell what a monarchy is ? There are the mon- archies of Great There are different ways of carrying on the business of a nation just as ...
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Strana 20 - ... to enact, constitute, and frame such just and equal laws, ordinances, acts, constitutions, and offices, from time to time, as shall be thought most meet and convenient for the general good of the colony, unto which we promise all due submission and obedience.
Strana 7 - Representative Houses repeatedly, for opposing with manly firmness his invasions •on the rights of the people. He has refused for a long time, after such dissolutions, to cause others to be elected; whereby the Legislative powers, incapable of Annihilation, have returned to the People at large for their exercise; the State remaining in the meantime exposed to all the dangers of invasion from without, and convulsions within.
Strana 7 - He has constrained our fellow-citizens, taken captive on the high seas, to bear arms against their country ; to become the executioners of their friends and brethren, or to fall themselves by their hands.
Strana 74 - When vacancies happen in the representation of any State in the Senate, the executive authority of such State shall issue writs of election to fill such vacancies: Provided, That the legislature of any State may empower the executive thereof to make temporary appointment until the people fill the vacancies by election as the legislature may direct.
Strana 83 - I hereby declare, on oath, that I absolutely and entirely renounce and abjure all allegiance and fidelity to any foreign prince, potentate, state or sovereignty, of whom or which I have heretofore been a subject or citizen...
Strana 33 - ... of all the various modes and forms of government, that is best, which is capable of producing the greatest degree of happiness and safety, and is most effectually secured against the danger of mal-administration; and...
Strana 68 - Resolved, By the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in congress assembled, two-thirds of both houses concurring, that the following articles be proposed to the legislatures of the several States, as amendments to the constitution of the United States; all or any of which articles, when ratified by three-fourths of the said legislatures, to be valid to all intents and purposes, as part of the said constitution...
Strana 52 - The Ratification of the Conventions of nine States shall be sufficient for the Establishment of this Constitution between the States so ratifying the Same. Done in Convention by the Unanimous Consent of the States present the Seventeenth Day of September in the Year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and Eighty seven and of the Independence of the United States of America the Twelfth.
Strana 68 - RESOLVED, By the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled, two-thirds of both Houses concurring, that the following articles be proposed to the legislatures of the several States, as amendments to the Constitution of the United States...
Strana 207 - We will never bring disgrace to this, our city, by any act of dishonesty or cowardice, nor ever desert our suffering comrades in the ranks. We will fight for the ideals and sacred things of the city, both alone and with many...