Eighty Years of Republican Government in the United StatesC. Scribner & Company, 1868 - 288 頁 |
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第 xi 頁
... majority supreme , 105 . Congressional power without a limit , 79 . Congressional struggle for mastery , 43 . Conservatism of American opinion , 285 . Constitutional functions of Congress , 73 . Corruption of the legislators , 171 ...
... majority supreme , 105 . Congressional power without a limit , 79 . Congressional struggle for mastery , 43 . Conservatism of American opinion , 285 . Constitutional functions of Congress , 73 . Corruption of the legislators , 171 ...
第 xv 頁
... majority , 157 . Tyranny of numbers , 127 . Universal Suffrage , 109-141 . Universal suffrage condemned by American writers , 141 Use of Presidential patronage by Mr. Johnson , 49 . Uselessness of the State Convention , 31 . Various ...
... majority , 157 . Tyranny of numbers , 127 . Universal Suffrage , 109-141 . Universal suffrage condemned by American writers , 141 Use of Presidential patronage by Mr. Johnson , 49 . Uselessness of the State Convention , 31 . Various ...
第 3 頁
... majority of the people . " The system is one which professes to guard with more than paternal care the welfare and interests of every class of the community . It lays claim to the credit of giving more liberty and diffusing greater ...
... majority of the people . " The system is one which professes to guard with more than paternal care the welfare and interests of every class of the community . It lays claim to the credit of giving more liberty and diffusing greater ...
第 5 頁
... over two years . The elections for the ensuing Congress take place , in the majority of States , five or six months before the one actually sitting has fulfilled its term . power with any effect , and he is thus rendered.
... over two years . The elections for the ensuing Congress take place , in the majority of States , five or six months before the one actually sitting has fulfilled its term . power with any effect , and he is thus rendered.
第 6 頁
... majority . It was the servant of the people , and the people came forward as one man to its sup- port . They prized it , and by their instrumentality it was saved from destruction when a section of the CHAP . I. MISREPRESENTATIONS OF ...
... majority . It was the servant of the people , and the people came forward as one man to its sup- port . They prized it , and by their instrumentality it was saved from destruction when a section of the CHAP . I. MISREPRESENTATIONS OF ...
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第 14 頁 - The Constitution of the United States is a law for rulers and people, equally in war and in peace, and covers with the shield of its protection all classes of men at all times and under all circumstances. No doctrine involving more pernicious consequences was ever invented by the wit of man than that any of its provisions can be suspended during any of the great exigencies of government.
第 222 頁 - She was dead. No sleep so beautiful and calm, so free from trace of pain, so fair to look upon. She seemed a creature fresh from the hand of God, and waiting for the breath of life ; not one who had lived, and suffered death. Her couch was dressed with here and there some winter-berries and green leaves, gathered in a spot she had been used to favor.
第 28 頁 - That a national government ought to be established, consisting of a supreme legislative, executive, and judiciary.
第 76 頁 - It is agreed on all sides, that the powers properly belonging to one of the departments ought not to be directly and completely administered by either of the other departments. It is equally evident, that none of them ought to possess, directly or indirectly, an overruling influence over the others, in the administration of their respective powers.
第 169 頁 - I do not hesitate to say that the road to eminence and power, from obscure condition, ought not to be made too easy, nor a thing too much of course. If rare merit be the rarest of all rare things, it ought to pass through some sort of probation.
第 159 頁 - Complaints are everywhere heard from our most considerate and virtuous citizens, equally the friends of public and private faith, and of public and personal liberty, that our governments are too unstable, that the public good is disregarded in the conflicts of rival parties, and that measures are too often decided, not according to the rules of justice and the rights of the minor party, but by the superior force of an interested and overbearing majority.
第 22 頁 - We, sir, who oppose the Carolina doctrine do not deny that the people may, if they choose, throw off any government when it becomes oppressive and intolerable, and erect a better in its stead.
第 246 頁 - States, the cotton States, or the gulf States only, choose to form an independent nation THEY HAVE A CLEAR MORAL RIGHT TO DO so. Whenever it shall be clear that the great body of Southern people have become conclusively alienated from the Union, and anxious to escape from it, WE WILL DO OUR BEST TO FORWARD THEIR VIEWS.
第 13 頁 - ... -The basis of our political systems is the right of the people to make and to alter their constitutions of government. — But, the constitution which at any time exists, till changed by an explicit and authentic act of the whole people, is sacredly obligatory upon all.
第 197 頁 - When Thou tookest upon Thee to deliver man, Thou didst humble Thyself to be born of a Virgin.