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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... Republican capture of Congress in 1800 constitute " a revolution in the principles of our government as that of 1776 , " as Jefferson himself contended ten years after he had retired to Monticello ? 1 Second , was Jefferson a true and ...
... Republican capture of Congress in 1800 constitute " a revolution in the principles of our government as that of 1776 , " as Jefferson himself contended ten years after he had retired to Monticello ? 1 Second , was Jefferson a true and ...
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... republican principles which had been dominant during the Revolution and were once again ascendant . As president , Jefferson set out to reverse the Federalist pro- gram , to restore the federal government to its constitutional role ...
... republican principles which had been dominant during the Revolution and were once again ascendant . As president , Jefferson set out to reverse the Federalist pro- gram , to restore the federal government to its constitutional role ...
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... Republican expenditures actually averaged $ 8.7 million , an increase under Jefferson of $ 1.6 million a year.7 FEDERAL TAXATION UNDER JEFFERSON The federal government had three sources of revenue in 1800 : public land sales , customs ...
... Republican expenditures actually averaged $ 8.7 million , an increase under Jefferson of $ 1.6 million a year.7 FEDERAL TAXATION UNDER JEFFERSON The federal government had three sources of revenue in 1800 : public land sales , customs ...
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... Republican allies were determined to repeal alto- gether , not just reduce , the internal taxes and to abolish the inspectors and collectors of the revenue . They were successful . Jefferson signed the reform bill into law in March 1802 ...
... Republican allies were determined to repeal alto- gether , not just reduce , the internal taxes and to abolish the inspectors and collectors of the revenue . They were successful . Jefferson signed the reform bill into law in March 1802 ...
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... Republican majority promptly passed the measure . The additional duties brought in about $ 1 million of increased revenue a year , thus compensating for the loss of revenue due to the repeal of the internal taxes . Both Gallatin and the ...
... Republican majority promptly passed the measure . The additional duties brought in about $ 1 million of increased revenue a year , thus compensating for the loss of revenue due to the repeal of the internal taxes . Both Gallatin and the ...
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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?