Journey to the United States of North America / Viaje a los Estados Unidos del Norte de Am?rica: Viaje a Los Estados Unidos Del Norte de America

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Arte Publico Press, 2005年4月30日 - 432 頁
First published in Paris in 1834, Journey to the United States of America / Viaje a los Estados Unidos del Norte Am?rica, by Lorenzo de Zavala, is an elegantly written travel narrative that maps de ZavalaÍs journey through the United States during his exile from Mexico in 1830. Embracing U.S., Texas, and Mexican history; early ethnography; geography; and political philosophy, de Zavala outlines the cultural and political institutions of Jacksonian America and post-independence Mexico. de ZavalaÍs commentary rivals Alex de TocquevilleÍs classic travel narrative, Democracy in America, which was published in Paris one year after de ZavalaÍs. The narrative presents the first account of U.S. political culture from a Mexican point of view and constructs the first comparative political and historical framework for the relationship between Mexico and the United States. In passionate prose, de Zavala argues for the incorporation of the true democratic ideals of the enlightenment in the fledgling Republic of Texas. He hoped Texas would meld the best of both Mexican and American cultures. de Zavala believed that if his colleagues who helped frame the Texas Constitution understood the complexities of democracy and the ideals that their state could achieve through a liberal, federal government that gave equal rights to all of its constituents: Native Americans, Mexicans, Euro-Americans, and free African Americans. The original text is accompanied by eight pages of maps and historical photos, John-Michael RiveraÍs critical introduction, and an English translation based upon Wallace WoolseyÍs deft translation, expanded and revised for the purposes of this volume.

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第 128 頁 - That religion or the duty which we owe to our Creator, and the manner of discharging it, can be directed only by reason and conviction, not by force or violence ; and, therefore, all men are equally entitled to the free exercise of religion, according to the dictates of conscience ; and that it is the mutual duty of all to practice Christian forbearance, love and charity towards each other.
第 136 頁 - Legislature excepted) shall, within such time, and in such manner as the Legislature shall prescribe, take an oath, well and truly to obey, execute and enforce this Ordinance, and such act or acts of the Legislature, as may be passed in pursuance thereof, according to the true intent and meaning of the same; and on the neglect or omission of any such person or persons so to do, his or their office or offices, shall be forthwith vacated, and shall be filled up, as if such person or persons were dead...
第 129 頁 - The freemen of America did not wait till usurped power had strengthened itself by exercise and entangled the question in precedents. They saw all the consequences in the principle, and they avoided the consequences by denying the principle.
第 128 頁 - Before any man can be considered as a member of civil society, he must be considered as a subject of the Governor of the universe ; and if a member of civil society...
第 172 頁 - But in cases of deliberate, dangerous, and palpable infractions of the constitution, affecting the sovereignty of a state and the liberties of the people, it is not only the right but the duty of such a state to interpose its authority for their protection in the manner best calculated to secure that end.
第 135 頁 - We, the people of the State of South Carolina, in Convention assembled, do declare and ordain, and it is hereby declared and ordained, that the ordinance adopted by us in Convention, on the 23d day of May, in the year of our Lord 1788, whereby the Constitution of the United States of America...
第 128 頁 - It is the duty of every man to render to the Creator such homage, and such only, as he believes to be acceptable to him. This duty is precedent both in order of time and degree of obligation, to the claims of Civil Society.
第 168 頁 - Whenever it shall appear that these causes are radical and permanent, a separation by equitable arrangement will be preferable to an alliance by constraint among nominal friends, but real enemies, inflamed by mutual hatred and jealousy, and inviting by intestine divisions contempt and aggression from abroad. But a severance of the Union by one or more States, against the will of the rest, and especially in time of war, can be justified only by absolute necessity.
第 170 頁 - It is as much the duty of the state authorities to watch over the rights reserved, as of the United States to exercise the powers which are delegated.
第 131 頁 - Because it will have a like tendency to banish our Citizens. The allurements presented by other situations are every day thinning their number. To superadd a fresh motive to emigration by revoking the liberty which they now enjoy, would be the same species of folly which has dishonoured and depopulated flourishing kingdoms.

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LORENZO DE ZAVALA (1788-1836) was the first vice president of the Republic of Texas. Born near M?rida in the Yucatàn, de Zavala founded and edited several newspapers. In 1822, he embarked on a fruitful political career in Mexico, for which he was exiled in 1830. He returned briefly to Mexico in the early 1830Ís before settling in Texas and becoming active in Texas politics, helping to draft the constitution and serving as interim vice president of the new republic. JOHN-MICHAEL RIVERA is an assistant professor of English at the University of Colorado and the editor of The Real Billy the Kid by Miguel Antonio Otero, Jr. (Arte PÏblico Press, 1998).

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