The New Star Chamber: And Other EssaysHammersmark Publishing Company, 1904 - 213 pages |
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Page 49
... 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 states or the people all powers ...
... 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 states or the people all powers ...
Page 60
... influence against which all the powers of light were contend- ing . It is a species of childish casuistry to single him out as the author of the nation's woes . This is not the philosophic view of history . Acts and not writ- ings ...
... influence against which all the powers of light were contend- ing . It is a species of childish casuistry to single him out as the author of the nation's woes . This is not the philosophic view of history . Acts and not writ- ings ...
Page 62
... influence , subtle and irresistible , baffled them . His pen was never idle ; his activities permeated the land . He gathered together the people whose hearts still vibrated with the thunder of liberty and he over- threw the federalists ...
... influence , subtle and irresistible , baffled them . His pen was never idle ; his activities permeated the land . He gathered together the people whose hearts still vibrated with the thunder of liberty and he over- threw the federalists ...
Page 66
... influence and the United States , This complex and fascinating mystery dwarfs the significance of Hamilton's personal career . It is of subordinate consequence that he was indiscreet , vain and opinionated ; that he envied Burr's ...
... influence and the United States , This complex and fascinating mystery dwarfs the significance of Hamilton's personal career . It is of subordinate consequence that he was indiscreet , vain and opinionated ; that he envied Burr's ...
Page 68
... influence upon men and nations , Hamilton was greatly beneath Jefferson . Hamilton believed that the love of gold in man was an energy which could be em- ployed to operate an exclusive system of government . All his measures were ...
... influence upon men and nations , Hamilton was greatly beneath Jefferson . Hamilton believed that the love of gold in man was an energy which could be em- ployed to operate an exclusive system of government . All his measures were ...
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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...