The New Star Chamber: And Other EssaysHammersmark Publishing Company, 1904 - 213 pages |
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Page 10
... evil." It is the love of money which strikes at liberty to cripple the economic power of men; and it is the love of money which resorts to dissimulation in order to obscure the campaign that is being waged. For liberty was never ...
... evil." It is the love of money which strikes at liberty to cripple the economic power of men; and it is the love of money which resorts to dissimulation in order to obscure the campaign that is being waged. For liberty was never ...
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... evil . ” It is the love of money which strikes at liberty to cripple the economic power of men ; and it is the love of money which resorts to dissimulation in order to obscure the campaign that is being waged . For liberty was never ...
... evil . ” It is the love of money which strikes at liberty to cripple the economic power of men ; and it is the love of money which resorts to dissimulation in order to obscure the campaign that is being waged . For liberty was never ...
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... evil . In the resist- ance of these temptations is symbolized honorable poverty , dignified purpose and renunciation of polit- ical power rather than to sacrifice those principles without which political power is a curse . One of Mr ...
... evil . In the resist- ance of these temptations is symbolized honorable poverty , dignified purpose and renunciation of polit- ical power rather than to sacrifice those principles without which political power is a curse . One of Mr ...
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... evil genius of Hamilton and Marshall obscured the light of heaven . It is conceded by Marshall's warmest admirers that his reasoning in McCulloch vs. Maryland was adopted from Hamilton's report on a national bank . The lat- ter is at ...
... evil genius of Hamilton and Marshall obscured the light of heaven . It is conceded by Marshall's warmest admirers that his reasoning in McCulloch vs. Maryland was adopted from Hamilton's report on a national bank . The lat- ter is at ...
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... evil in the republic if his influence leads to the overthrow of the constitu- tion or can be employed to that end . It was not con- fidence in man but in distrust of human nature , that the constitution was adopted reserving to the ...
... evil in the republic if his influence leads to the overthrow of the constitu- tion or can be employed to that end . It was not con- fidence in man but in distrust of human nature , that the constitution was adopted reserving to the ...
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Page 57 - Any people anywhere being inclined and having the power have the right to rise up and shake off the existing government, and form a new one that suits them better. This is a most valuable, a most sacred right — a right which we hope and believe is to liberate the world.
Page 125 - Britain; and that the King's Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords spiritual and temporal and Commons of Great Britain in Parliament assembled, had, hath and of right ought to have, full power and authority to make laws and statutes of sufficient force and validity to bind the colonies and people of America, subjects of the Crown of Great Britain in all cases whatsoever.
Page 84 - The conventions of a number of the states having, at the time of their adopting the constitution, expressed a desire, in order to prevent misconstruction or abuse of its powers, that further declaratory and restrictive clauses should be added...
Page 129 - States; and the people of each State shall have free ingress and regress to and from any other State, and shall enjoy therein all the privileges of trade and commerce subject to the same duties, impositions, and restrictions as the inhabitants thereof respectively...
Page 153 - The Government then of the United States can claim no powers which are not granted to it by the Constitution; and the powers actually granted must be such as are expressly given, or given by necessary implication.
Page 69 - Hamilton was, indeed, a singular character. Of acute understanding, disinterested, honest, and honorable in all private transactions, amiable in society, and duly valuing virtue in private life, yet so bewitched and perverted by the British example, as to be under thorough conviction that corruption was essential to the government of a nation.
Page 61 - HERE WAS BURIED THOMAS JEFFERSON AUTHOR OF THE DECLARATION OF AMERICAN INDEPENDENCE, OF THE STATUTE OF VIRGINIA FOR RELIGIOUS FREEDOM, AND FATHER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA: because by these, as testimonials that I have lived, I wish most to be remembered.
Page 126 - That the only representatives of the people of these colonies are persons chosen therein by themselves, and that no taxes ever have been, or can. be constitutionally imposed on them, but by their respective legislatures.
Page 54 - The Union : next to our Liberty the most dear: may we all remember that it can only be preserved by respecting the rights of the States, and distributing equally the benefit and burden of the Union...
Page 130 - And for extending the fundamental principles of civil and religious liberty, which form the basis whereon these republics, their laws and constitutions, are erected; to fix and establish those principles as the basis of all laws, constitutions, and governments which forever hereafter shall be formed in the said territory...