Reassessing the Presidency: The Rise of the Executive State and the Decline of FreedomJohn V. Denson Ludwig von Mises Institute, 2001 - 791 páginas |
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... Philippines in Asia . The new foreign policy of imperialism was thus born in America . I had a discussion with Jeffrey Hummel regarding his selec- tion of Van Buren as the best example of a good classical - liberal president , and I ...
... Philippines in Asia . The new foreign policy of imperialism was thus born in America . I had a discussion with Jeffrey Hummel regarding his selec- tion of Van Buren as the best example of a good classical - liberal president , and I ...
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... Philippines and Puerto Rico while we're at it . The War with Spain isn't one bit different than what he still calls " the War of Yankee Aggression " : the Old South , says he , was the first conquest of the Yankee Empire . —Peter ...
... Philippines and Puerto Rico while we're at it . The War with Spain isn't one bit different than what he still calls " the War of Yankee Aggression " : the Old South , says he , was the first conquest of the Yankee Empire . —Peter ...
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... Philippine annexation , the Panama policy , and the new application of the Munroe [ sic ] doctrine . South America is needed as preferential market for investment 8Ibid . , pp . 206–31 . " William Appleman Williams , Contours of ...
... Philippine annexation , the Panama policy , and the new application of the Munroe [ sic ] doctrine . South America is needed as preferential market for investment 8Ibid . , pp . 206–31 . " William Appleman Williams , Contours of ...
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... Philippine Islands over from Spain . How Mckinley Maneuvered The Spaniards It is his handling of his opportunities and his assumption of the mantle of empire that rescue McKinley from his popular image as a weak president badgered into ...
... Philippine Islands over from Spain . How Mckinley Maneuvered The Spaniards It is his handling of his opportunities and his assumption of the mantle of empire that rescue McKinley from his popular image as a weak president badgered into ...
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... Philippines had much to do with fear of German seizure of the islands , which would interfere with the larger political - eco- nomic strategy he was following.30 The immediate result was a colonial war , the " Philippine Insurrection ...
... Philippines had much to do with fear of German seizure of the islands , which would interfere with the larger political - eco- nomic strategy he was following.30 The immediate result was a colonial war , the " Philippine Insurrection ...
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Página 457 - Europe has a set of primary interests which to us have none or a very remote relation. Hence she must be engaged in frequent controversies, the causes of which are essentially foreign to our concerns. Hence, therefore, it must be unwise in us to implicate ourselves by artificial ties in the ordinary vicissitudes of her politics or the ordinary combinations and collisions of her friendships or enmities.
Página 65 - That the Government created by this compact was not made the exclusive or final judge of the extent of the powers delegated to itself; since that would have made its discretion, and not the Constitution, the measure of its powers; but that as in all other cases of compact among parties having no common judge, each party has an equal right to judge for itself, as well of infractions, as of the mode and measure of redress.
Página 242 - The power confided to me will be used to hold, occupy, and possess the property and places belonging to the government, and to collect the duties and imposts; but beyond what may be necessary for these objects, there will be no invasion, no using of force against or among the people anywhere.
Página 456 - Against the insidious wiles of foreign influence, (I conjure you to believe me, fellow citizens,) the jealousy of a free people ought to be CONSTANTLY awake; since history and experience prove that foreign influence is one of the most baneful foes of republican government.
Página 736 - ... exert all its power and employ all its resources to bring the Government of the German Empire to terms and end the war.
Página 236 - Any people anywhere, being inclined and having the power, have the right to rise up and shake off the existing government, and form a new one that suits them better. This is a most valuable, a most sacred right — a right which, we hope and believe, is to liberate the world.
Página 278 - The provision of the Constitution giving the warmaking power to Congress was dictated, as I understand it, by the following reasons: Kings had always been involving and impoverishing their people in wars, pretending generally, if not always, that the good of the people was the object. This our convention understood to be the most oppressive of all kingly oppressions, and they resolved to so frame the Constitution that no one man should hold the power of bringing this oppression upon us.
Página 43 - If we remain one people, under an efficient government, the period is not far off when we may defy material injury from external annoyance; when we may take such an attitude as will cause the neutrality we may at any time resolve upon to be scrupulously respected...
Página 723 - to raise and support Armies" and "to provide and maintain a Navy.
Página 57 - I know that the acquisition of Louisiana has been disapproved by some, from a candid apprehension that the enlargement of our territory would endanger its union. But who can limit the extent to which the federative principle may operate effectively? The larger our association, the less will it be shaken by local passions ; and in any view, is it not better that the opposite bank of the Mississippi should be settled by our own brethren and children, than by strangers of another family?