Great Issues in American History, Vol. II: From the Revolution to the Civil War, 1765-1865Richard Hofstadter Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 1958 - 448페이지 A collection of documentary selections offering insight into the major political and social issues of American history. These documentary selections are intended to provide a generous sampling from the major political controversies in American history. The general introductions, together with the headnotes supplied for each selection, will serve to set the documents in their historical context in such a way as to make it possible for a reader with a modest knowledge of American history to read them profitably and without further supplement ... Almost everything in these volumes can be described as argumentative. These documents reproduce the words of major actors of American political history - whether judges, statesmen, legislative bodies, or private individuals of influence - engaged in debating issues of central importance. |
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... justice and the opinion of man- kind , we esteem ourselves bound , by obligations of respect to the rest of the world , to make known the justice of our cause . Our forefathers , inhabitants of the island of Great Britain , left their ...
... justice and the opinion of man- kind , we esteem ourselves bound , by obligations of respect to the rest of the world , to make known the justice of our cause . Our forefathers , inhabitants of the island of Great Britain , left their ...
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... Justice ought to hold the balance between them . Yet the parties are , and must be , themselves the judges ; and the most numerous party , or , in other words , the most powerful faction , must be ex- pected to prevail . Shall domestic ...
... Justice ought to hold the balance between them . Yet the parties are , and must be , themselves the judges ; and the most numerous party , or , in other words , the most powerful faction , must be ex- pected to prevail . Shall domestic ...
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... justice , of all the questions at issue between the two sections . The South asks for justice , simple justice , and less she ought not to take . She has no compromise to offer , but the Constitution ; and no conces- sion or surrender ...
... justice , of all the questions at issue between the two sections . The South asks for justice , simple justice , and less she ought not to take . She has no compromise to offer , but the Constitution ; and no conces- sion or surrender ...
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Lincoln Abraham 330 385 | 4 |
Confederacy 3845 397 Dred Scott decision 31213 | 5 |
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