History of Public Speaking in AmericaAllyn and Bacon, 1965 - 566 pages |
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... Constitution was not devised by ex- perts and then sold to the Philadelphia Convention by skillful argu- mentation and persuasion . Instead , it was hammered out from initial un- certainty through genuine discussion and honest debate ...
... Constitution was not devised by ex- perts and then sold to the Philadelphia Convention by skillful argu- mentation and persuasion . Instead , it was hammered out from initial un- certainty through genuine discussion and honest debate ...
Page 74
... Constitution . By this time Mad- ison had arrived from Richmond , with word of the Virginia decision . He advised Hamilton to make bold and strong the point that once a State entered the Union there would never be any legal means by ...
... Constitution . By this time Mad- ison had arrived from Richmond , with word of the Virginia decision . He advised Hamilton to make bold and strong the point that once a State entered the Union there would never be any legal means by ...
Page 93
... Constitution . " Web- ster then spoke of revolution , inducing Hayne to interrupt with the dec- laration that he never intended revolution but merely had asserted the right of " interposition " by a State to block the operation within ...
... Constitution . " Web- ster then spoke of revolution , inducing Hayne to interrupt with the dec- laration that he never intended revolution but merely had asserted the right of " interposition " by a State to block the operation within ...
Contents
Groping Toward Independence | 1 |
The Role of the Preachers | 9 |
The Mather Dynasty | 18 |
Copyright | |
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