The New Star Chamber: And Other EssaysHammersmark Publishing Company, 1904 - 213 pages |
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... presidents . His physical appearance was of that character for which the people are accustomed to look in the ... president both what he was himself and what the times were , made it en- tirely appropriate that he should take his ...
... presidents . His physical appearance was of that character for which the people are accustomed to look in the ... president both what he was himself and what the times were , made it en- tirely appropriate that he should take his ...
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... president . He will go into office with the chains which are the price of moral surrender . He is too vain , too infatuated with the sophistry of priv- ilege and glory to do differently in the future from what he has done in the past ...
... president . He will go into office with the chains which are the price of moral surrender . He is too vain , too infatuated with the sophistry of priv- ilege and glory to do differently in the future from what he has done in the past ...
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... president after him , including Lincoln , with a policy and a reason for the policy . There is no system in opposition to his which is avowed and denied . Even imperialism is justified under the pretense of giving the Filipinos liberty ...
... president after him , including Lincoln , with a policy and a reason for the policy . There is no system in opposition to his which is avowed and denied . Even imperialism is justified under the pretense of giving the Filipinos liberty ...
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... President Jackson on that occasion responded to the toast " Our Federal Union : It Must Be Preserved . " This would have settled the charac- ter of the dinner except for the toast of Mr. Calhoun , who said : " The union , next to our ...
... President Jackson on that occasion responded to the toast " Our Federal Union : It Must Be Preserved . " This would have settled the charac- ter of the dinner except for the toast of Mr. Calhoun , who said : " The union , next to our ...
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... president upon the issue of whether these resolutions were true or false , the denouncement of Jefferson is particular and unjust . It ill becomes a breed of statesmen who no longer mention the constitution and no longer pretend to ob ...
... president upon the issue of whether these resolutions were true or false , the denouncement of Jefferson is particular and unjust . It ill becomes a breed of statesmen who no longer mention the constitution and no longer pretend to ob ...
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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...