Division and Reunion, 1829-1889Longmans, Green, and Company, 1893 - 326 страници |
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... influences . - 8. EDWARD STANWOOD : A History of Presidential Elec- tions . 4th ed . , revised . Boston & New York : Houghton , Mifflin & Co. , 1892. An account of the political events of each Presidential campaign , with the platforms ...
... influences . - 8. EDWARD STANWOOD : A History of Presidential Elec- tions . 4th ed . , revised . Boston & New York : Houghton , Mifflin & Co. , 1892. An account of the political events of each Presidential campaign , with the platforms ...
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... had preceded 1829 , the government had remained under the influence of the generation of statesmen which had conceived and framed the Constitution . It had been Original spirit of politics . conducted with all the conservatism.
... had preceded 1829 , the government had remained under the influence of the generation of statesmen which had conceived and framed the Constitution . It had been Original spirit of politics . conducted with all the conservatism.
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... influences , whether of popular impulse or of official overbearance . Only in the House of Representatives were the people to be accorded an immediate audience and a direct means of making their will effective in affairs . The govern ...
... influences , whether of popular impulse or of official overbearance . Only in the House of Representatives were the people to be accorded an immediate audience and a direct means of making their will effective in affairs . The govern ...
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... influences been shut out , and the normal conditions of domestic politics preserved , the Federalists would probably have been forced cratic move- from power after the second administration of Washington , and John Adams would have been ...
... influences been shut out , and the normal conditions of domestic politics preserved , the Federalists would probably have been forced cratic move- from power after the second administration of Washington , and John Adams would have been ...
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... Congress showed a consciousness that some explanation was due to the country ; but the explanation offered was very vague . It asserted the corrupting influence of long terms of office , The Presi- dent's rea- sons . and denied that any.
... Congress showed a consciousness that some explanation was due to the country ; but the explanation offered was very vague . It asserted the corrupting influence of long terms of office , The Presi- dent's rea- sons . and denied that any.
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Страница 61 - I consider, then, the power to annul a law of the United States, assumed by one state, incompatible with the existence of the Union, contradicted expressly by the letter of the constitution, unauthorized by its spirit, inconsistent with every principle on which it was founded, and destructive of the great object for which it was formed.
Страница 105 - Where this is the case in any part of the world, those who are free are by far the most proud and jealous of their freedom. Freedom is to them not only an enjoyment, but a kind of rank and privilege. Not seeing there that freedom, as in countries where it is a common blessing, and as broad and general as the air, may be united with much abject toil, with great misery, with all the exterior of servitude, liberty looks, among them, like something that is more noble and liberal.
Страница 206 - THE CONSTITUTION OF THE COUNTRY, THE UNION OF THE STATES, AND THE ENFORCEMENT OF THE LAWS...
Страница 210 - Constitution of the United States of America was ratified, and also all acts and parts of acts of the General Assembly of this State ratifying amendments of the said Constitution, are hereby repealed; and that the union now subsisting between South Carolina and other States, under the name of the "United States of America,
Страница 46 - I am compelled to declare it as my deliberate opinion that if this bill passes, the bonds of this Union are virtually dissolved; that the States which compose it are free from their moral obligations, and that as it will be the right of all, so it will be the duty of some, to prepare definitely for a separation, amicably if they can, violently if they must.
Страница 83 - The opinion of the judges has no more authority over congress than the opinion of congress has over the judges, and on that point the president is independent of both.
Страница 73 - The charter of the Bank of the United States expires in 1836, and its stockholders will most probably apply for a renewal of their privileges. In order to avoid the evils resulting from precipitancy in a measure involving such important principles and such deep pecuniary interests...
Страница 61 - The laws of the United States must be executed. I have no discretionary power on the subject; my duty is emphatically pronounced in the Constitution. Those who told you that you might peaceably prevent their execution deceived you; they could not have been deceived themselves. They know that a forcible opposition could alone prevent the execution of the laws, and they know that such opposition must be repelled. Their object is disunion. But be not deceived by names.