 | Ronald J. Pestritto, Thomas G. West - 2005 - 318 페이지
...made a substantive argument for national greatness in his First Annual Message to Congress in 1825: "The great object of the institution of civil government is the improvement in the condition of those who are parties to the social compact. . . . Roads and canals, by multiplying... | |
 | Paul E. Teed - 2006 - 222 페이지
...creative people of the United States. "The spirit of improvement is abroad upon the earth," he exclaimed. "The great object of the institution of civil government...condition of those who are parties to the social compact." While many Americans continued to think of government power as a dangerous counterweight to popular... | |
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The great object of the institution of civil government is the improvement of the condition of those who are parties to the social compact. And no government, in whatever form constituted, can accomplish the lawful ends of its institution, but in proportion... 
