The United States: An Experiment in DemocracyHarper, 1920 - 332 páginas |
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... course of a hundred years many Europeans have come to observe us at first hand ; and from Crèvecœur to H. G. Wells the thing that has chiefly in- terested them has been the character and the relative success or failure of our political ...
... course of a hundred years many Europeans have come to observe us at first hand ; and from Crèvecœur to H. G. Wells the thing that has chiefly in- terested them has been the character and the relative success or failure of our political ...
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... course , govern themselves . This idea is so fixed and so universally held that if any one should suggest any kind of government other than self - government as proper for Ameri- cans the proposal would be taken as a species of joke ...
... course , govern themselves . This idea is so fixed and so universally held that if any one should suggest any kind of government other than self - government as proper for Ameri- cans the proposal would be taken as a species of joke ...
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... course managed its own affairs in complete , independence of every other colony . The . only bond of union between the colonies was the British government , and the people of the various colonies had usually but little intercourse with ...
... course managed its own affairs in complete , independence of every other colony . The . only bond of union between the colonies was the British government , and the people of the various colonies had usually but little intercourse with ...
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... is organized ; and although in the course of time the trend toward a greater degree of democracy has brought about many modifications in detail , the structural features of municipal , county , and state 72 THE UNITED STATES.
... is organized ; and although in the course of time the trend toward a greater degree of democracy has brought about many modifications in detail , the structural features of municipal , county , and state 72 THE UNITED STATES.
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... course quite distinct in jurisdiction and in personnel from the state courts , thus consti- tute a kind of judicial hierarchy , with the district courts at the bottom , above them the circuit courts , and above the circuit courts the ...
... course quite distinct in jurisdiction and in personnel from the state courts , thus consti- tute a kind of judicial hierarchy , with the district courts at the bottom , above them the circuit courts , and above the circuit courts the ...
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abolished Abolitionists acres Amer Articles of Confederation average American become Britain British British Empire century civil Colonies Congress Constitution Declaration democracy democratic economic elected emancipation Empire England English equality essential established Europe European existed fact federal government Federalists foreign France free government freedom French frontier German high-school ican ideal ideas immigrants independence industrial industrial revolution institutions interests Jefferson John Adams king labor land laws less liberty little American live Massachusetts ment mind Monroe Doctrine nation negro never nomic North Parliament party political population preserve President principle problem public opinion question Republican respect Revolution revolutionary slave slavery social South Southern speak spirit Stamp Act taxes territory thing Thomas Hutchinson tion Tompkins County town Union United Virginia vote wealth West Whig William Lloyd Garrison York
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Página 212 - If I could save the Union without freeing any slave, I would do it ; if I could save it by freeing all the slaves, I would do it ; and if I could save it by freeing some and leaving others alone, I would also do that. What I do about slavery and the colored race, I do because I believe it helps to save the Union : and what I forbear, I forbear because I do not believe it would help to save the Union.
Página 135 - With the movements in this hemisphere we are of necessity more immediately connected, and by causes which must be obvious to all enlightened and impartial observers. " The political system of the allied powers is essentially different in this respect from that of America.
Página 125 - 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 269 - ... and it is further ordered, that where any town shall increase to the number of one hundred families or householders they shall set up a grammar school, the master thereof being able to instruct youth so far as they may be fitted for the university...
Página 212 - Union; and what I forbear, I forbear because I do not believe it would help to save the Union. I shall do less whenever I shall believe what I am doing hurts the cause, and I shall do more whenever I shall believe doing more will help the cause.
Página 124 - The great rule of conduct for us in regard to foreign nations is, in extending our commercial relations to have with them as little political connection as possible.
Página 268 - It is therefore ordered, that every township in this jurisdiction, after the Lord hath increased them to the number of fifty householders, shall then forthwith appoint one within their town to teach all such children as shall resort to him to write and read, whose wages shall be paid either by the parents or masters of such children, or by the inhabitants in general...
Página 212 - If there be those who would not save the Union unless they could at the same time save Slavery, I do not agree with them.
Página 201 - A house divided against itself cannot stand." I believe this government cannot endure permanently half slave and half free. I do not expect the Union to be dissolved — I do not expect the house to fall — but I do expect it will cease to be divided. It will become all one thing, or all the other. Either the opponents of slavery will arrest the further spread of it, and place it where the public mind shall rest in the belief that it is in the course of ultimate extinction ; or its advocates will...
Página 195 - I will be as harsh as truth, and as uncompromising as justice. On this subject I do not wish to think, or speak, or write, with moderation.