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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... United States and other documents , and related them to estimates of total output reported by the Department of Commerce for modern times , by Simon Kuznets for a few decades around the beginning of this century , and by Thomas Senior ...
... United States and other documents , and related them to estimates of total output reported by the Department of Commerce for modern times , by Simon Kuznets for a few decades around the beginning of this century , and by Thomas Senior ...
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... United States , a set of circumstances for which Franklin Roosevelt does bear the responsibility . 19 Of course , war impacts on our presidential rankings by increasing the level of federal spending . However , such surges in spending ...
... United States , a set of circumstances for which Franklin Roosevelt does bear the responsibility . 19 Of course , war impacts on our presidential rankings by increasing the level of federal spending . However , such surges in spending ...
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... United States . " 10 If federal expenditures on the whole were not reduced under President Jefferson and if taxes were twice reduced , then why did the Treasury Department run a surplus each year from 1801 8Thomas P. Slaughter , The ...
... United States . " 10 If federal expenditures on the whole were not reduced under President Jefferson and if taxes were twice reduced , then why did the Treasury Department run a surplus each year from 1801 8Thomas P. Slaughter , The ...
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... United States found itself in an undeclared naval war . Jefferson sent additional forces to the Mediterranean each year until , by the summer of 1805 , almost the entire American navy was deployed off the shores of Tripoli . In addition ...
... United States found itself in an undeclared naval war . Jefferson sent additional forces to the Mediterranean each year until , by the summer of 1805 , almost the entire American navy was deployed off the shores of Tripoli . In addition ...
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... United States . West Florida was important for similar reasons . It contained the port of Mobile , and it controlled the outlet for the rivers . which drained the fertile Mississippi territory . The Floridas were strategically important ...
... United States . West Florida was important for similar reasons . It contained the port of Mobile , and it controlled the outlet for the rivers . which drained the fertile Mississippi territory . The Floridas were strategically important ...
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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?