The True Republican: Containing the Inaugural Addresses, Together with the First Annual Addresses and Messages of All the Presidents of the United States, from 1789 to 1841, Together with Their Farewell Addresses, and Illustrated with the Portrait of Each of the Presidents. To which is Annexed the Declaration of Independence and Constitution of the United States. Also, the Constitutions of Many of the Most Important States in the UnionD. Richardson, 1841 - 456페이지 |
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... election of a citizen to adminis- ter the executive government of the United States being not far distant , and the time actually arrived when your thoughts must be employed in designating the person who is to be clothed with that ...
... election of a citizen to adminis- ter the executive government of the United States being not far distant , and the time actually arrived when your thoughts must be employed in designating the person who is to be clothed with that ...
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... election , had even led to the preparation of an address to declare it to you ; but mature reflection on the then per- plexed and critical posture of affairs with foreign nations , and the unanimous advice of persons entitled to my con ...
... election , had even led to the preparation of an address to declare it to you ; but mature reflection on the then per- plexed and critical posture of affairs with foreign nations , and the unanimous advice of persons entitled to my con ...
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... elections . If an election is to be determined by a majority of a single vote , and that can be procured by a party , through artifice or corruption , the government may be the choice of party , for its own ends , not of the nation ...
... elections . If an election is to be determined by a majority of a single vote , and that can be procured by a party , through artifice or corruption , the government may be the choice of party , for its own ends , not of the nation ...
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... election by the people ; a mild and safe corrective of abuses , which are lopped by the sword of revolution , where peaceable re- medies are unprovided ; absolute acquiescence in the de- • cisions of the majority , the vital principle ...
... election by the people ; a mild and safe corrective of abuses , which are lopped by the sword of revolution , where peaceable re- medies are unprovided ; absolute acquiescence in the de- • cisions of the majority , the vital principle ...
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... elections . That the general government of the Union , and the separate governments of the states , are all sovereignties of legitimated powers ; fellow - servants of the same masters , uncontrolled within their respective spheres ...
... elections . That the general government of the Union , and the separate governments of the states , are all sovereignties of legitimated powers ; fellow - servants of the same masters , uncontrolled within their respective spheres ...
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27 페이지 - If in the opinion of the people the distribution or modification of the constitutional powers be in any particular wrong, let it be corrected by an amendment in the way which the Constitution designates. But let there be no change by usurpation; for though this in one instance may be the instrument of good, it is the customary weapon by which free governments are destroyed.
12 페이지 - ... the propitious smiles of Heaven can never be expected on a nation that disregards the eternal rules of order and right, which Heaven itself has ordained ; and since the preservation of the sacred fire of liberty, and the destiny of the republican model of government, are justly considered as deeply, perhaps as finally staked, on the experiment intrusted to the hands of the American people.
25 페이지 - Liberty itself will find in such a government, with powers properly distributed and adjusted, its surest guardian. It is, indeed, little else than a name...
29 페이지 - Hence, frequent collisions, obstinate, envenomed and bloody contests. The nation, prompted by ill will and resentment, sometimes impels to war the government, contrary to the best calculations of policy. The government sometimes participates in the national propensity and adopts through passion what reason would reject ; at other times it makes the animosity of the nation subservient to projects of hostility instigated by pride, ambition, and other sinister and pernicious motives. The peace often,...
30 페이지 - As avenues to foreign influence in innumerable ways, such attachments are particularly alarming to the truly enlightened and independent patriot. How many opportunities...
28 페이지 - The execution of these maxims belongs to your representatives, but it is necessary that public opinion should co-operate. To facilitate to them the performance...
348 페이지 - That all men are by nature equally free and independent, and have certain inherent rights, of which, when they enter into a state of society, they cannot, by any compact, deprive or divest their posterity; namely, the enjoyment of life and liberty, with the means of acquiring and possessing property, and pursuing and obtaining happiness and safety.
23 페이지 - Sensible of this momentous truth, you have improved upon your first essay by the adoption of a constitution of government better calculated than your former for an intimate union, and for the efficacious management of your common concerns. This government, the offspring of our own choice, uninfluenced and...
349 페이지 - ... best which is capable of producing the greatest degree of happiness and safety, and is most effectually secured against the danger of maladministration; and that...
420 페이지 - That the printing presses shall be free to every person who undertakes to examine the proceedings of the legislature or any branch of government : and no law shall ever be made to restrain the right thereof. The free communication of thoughts .and opinions is one of the invaluable rights of man ; and every citizen may freely speak, write and print on any subject, being responsible for the abuse of that liberty.