Building the American NationC. Scribner's sons, 1923 - 375 頁 |
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... naturally passed from crown to Parliament . With the revolution of 1688 the Tudor and Stuart theory of a kingship by divine right disappeared and something very like a con- tract or compact between crown and Parliament took its place ...
... naturally passed from crown to Parliament . With the revolution of 1688 the Tudor and Stuart theory of a kingship by divine right disappeared and something very like a con- tract or compact between crown and Parliament took its place ...
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... natural sover- eignty of the people of the British Empire , but upon the conferred sovereignty of the political franchise holders . He could not , therefore , have consistently admitted that the sovereign power of Parliament sprang from ...
... natural sover- eignty of the people of the British Empire , but upon the conferred sovereignty of the political franchise holders . He could not , therefore , have consistently admitted that the sovereign power of Parliament sprang from ...
第 26 頁
... but was made subject to the threepenny tax pay- able in America . The trade of the colonies in tea was both large and profitable , and any change in its conditions or natural channels was quickly no- ticed . 26 FORERUNNERS OF THE NATION.
... but was made subject to the threepenny tax pay- able in America . The trade of the colonies in tea was both large and profitable , and any change in its conditions or natural channels was quickly no- ticed . 26 FORERUNNERS OF THE NATION.
第 27 頁
Nicholas Murray Butler. its conditions or natural channels was quickly no- ticed . The East India Company made the mistake of choosing as its agents in the colonies men who were on the unpopular side of current discussions , and sharp ...
Nicholas Murray Butler. its conditions or natural channels was quickly no- ticed . The East India Company made the mistake of choosing as its agents in the colonies men who were on the unpopular side of current discussions , and sharp ...
第 30 頁
... natural ; that when this attempt was made there would be fight- ing was obvious . In one way or another it was just this that happened , and , finally , at Concord Bridge , on April 19 , 1775 , " . . . the embattled farmers stood , And ...
... natural ; that when this attempt was made there would be fight- ing was obvious . In one way or another it was just this that happened , and , finally , at Concord Bridge , on April 19 , 1775 , " . . . the embattled farmers stood , And ...
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第 323 頁 - Government here, by declaring us out of his Protection and waging War against us. He has plundered our seas, ravaged our Coasts, burnt our towns, and destroyed the lives of our people. He is at this time transporting large armies of foreign mercenaries to compleat the works of death, desolation and tyranny, already begun with circumstances of Cruelty & perfidy scarcely paralleled in the most barbarous ages, and totally unworthy the Head of a civilized nation. He has constrained our fellow Citizens...
第 261 頁 - seem to be pursuing," as you say, I have not meant to leave any one in doubt. I would save the Union. I would save it the shortest way under the Constitution. The sooner the national authority can be restored, the nearer the Union will be — "the Union as it was.
第 261 頁 - My paramount object in this struggle is to save the Union, and is not either to save or to destroy slavery. If I could save the Union without freeing any slave, I would do it ; and if I could save it by freeing all the slaves, I would do it ; and if I could save it by freeing some and leaving others alone, I would also do that.
第 344 頁 - After one year from the ratification of this article the manufacture, sale, or transportation of intoxicating liquors within, the importation thereof into, or the exportation thereof from the United States and all territory subject to the jurisdiction thereof for beverage purposes is hereby prohibited. SECTION 2. The Congress and the several States shall have concurrent power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation.
第 344 頁 - Section 2. The Congress and the several States shall have concurrent power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation. Section 3. This article shall be Inoperative unless it shall have been ratified as an amendment to the Constitution by the legislatures of the several states, as provided in the Constitution, within seven years from the date of the submission hereof to the States by the Congress.
第 325 頁 - PROMOTE THE GENERAL WELFARE, AND SECURE THE BLESSINGS OF LIBERTY TO OURSELVES AND OUR POSTERITY, DO ORDAIN AND ESTABLISH THIS CONSTITUTION FOR THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. ARTICLE I SECTION i ( All legislative Powers herein granted shall be vested in a Congress of the United States, which shall consist of a Senate and a House of Representatives.
第 327 頁 - Senators. The Congress shall assemble at least once in every Year, and such Meeting shall be on the first Monday in December, unless they shall by Law appoint a different Day.
第 346 頁 - For when you assemble a number of men to have the advantage of their joint wisdom, you inevitably assemble with those men all their prejudices, their passions, their errors of opinion, their local interests, and their selfish views.
第 347 頁 - In all our deliberations on this subject we kept steadily in our view, that which appears to us the greatest interest of every true American, the consolidation of our Union, in which is involved our prosperity, felicity, safety, perhaps our national existence.
第 350 頁 - Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great battlefield of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field as a final resting-place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this. ***** But in a larger sense, we can not dedicate — we can not consecrate — we can not hallow — this ground.