The True Republican: Containing the Inaugural Addresses, Together with the First Annual Addresses and Messages of All the Presidents of the United States, from 1789 to 1841, Together with Their Farewell Addresses, and Illustrated with the Portrait of Each of the Presidents. To which is Annexed the Declaration of Independence and Constitution of the United States. Also, the Constitutions of Many of the Most Important States in the UnionD. Richardson, 1841 - 456 من الصفحات |
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... effect their safety and happiness . Prudence , indeed , will dictate that governments , long established , should not be changed for light and transient causes ; and , accordingly , all experience hath shown , that mankind are more ...
... effect their safety and happiness . Prudence , indeed , will dictate that governments , long established , should not be changed for light and transient causes ; and , accordingly , all experience hath shown , that mankind are more ...
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... effect in the forms of the constitution alterations which will impair the energy of the system , and thus to undermine what cannot be directly over- thrown . In all the changes to which you may be invited , remember that time and habit ...
... effect in the forms of the constitution alterations which will impair the energy of the system , and thus to undermine what cannot be directly over- thrown . In all the changes to which you may be invited , remember that time and habit ...
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... effects of the spirit of party generally . This spirit , unfortunately , is inseparable from our na- ture , having its root in the strongest passions of the human mind . It exists under different shapes in all governments , more or less ...
... effects of the spirit of party generally . This spirit , unfortunately , is inseparable from our na- ture , having its root in the strongest passions of the human mind . It exists under different shapes in all governments , more or less ...
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... effects upon the peace , order , prosperity , and happiness of the nation , I have ac- quired an habitual attachment to it and veneration for it . What other form of government , indeed , can so well deserve our esteem and love ? There ...
... effects upon the peace , order , prosperity , and happiness of the nation , I have ac- quired an habitual attachment to it and veneration for it . What other form of government , indeed , can so well deserve our esteem and love ? There ...
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... effect . With this great example before me , with the sense and spirit , the faith and honor , the duty and interest , of the same American people , pledged to support the constitu- tion of the United States , I entertain no doubt of ...
... effect . With this great example before me , with the sense and spirit , the faith and honor , the duty and interest , of the same American people , pledged to support the constitu- tion of the United States , I entertain no doubt of ...
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الصفحة 27 - If in the opinion of the people the distribution or modification of the constitutional powers be in any particular wrong, let it be corrected by an amendment in the way which the Constitution designates. But let there be no change by usurpation; for though this in one instance may be the instrument of good, it is the customary weapon by which free governments are destroyed.
الصفحة 12 - ... the propitious smiles of Heaven can never be expected on a nation that disregards the eternal rules of order and right, which Heaven itself has ordained ; and since the preservation of the sacred fire of liberty, and the destiny of the republican model of government, are justly considered as deeply, perhaps as finally staked, on the experiment intrusted to the hands of the American people.
الصفحة 25 - Liberty itself will find in such a government, with powers properly distributed and adjusted, its surest guardian. It is, indeed, little else than a name...
الصفحة 29 - Hence, frequent collisions, obstinate, envenomed and bloody contests. The nation, prompted by ill will and resentment, sometimes impels to war the government, contrary to the best calculations of policy. The government sometimes participates in the national propensity and adopts through passion what reason would reject ; at other times it makes the animosity of the nation subservient to projects of hostility instigated by pride, ambition, and other sinister and pernicious motives. The peace often,...
الصفحة 30 - As avenues to foreign influence in innumerable ways, such attachments are particularly alarming to the truly enlightened and independent patriot. How many opportunities...
الصفحة 28 - The execution of these maxims belongs to your representatives, but it is necessary that public opinion should co-operate. To facilitate to them the performance...
الصفحة 348 - That all men are by nature equally free and independent, and have certain inherent rights, of which, when they enter into a state of society, they cannot, by any compact, deprive or divest their posterity; namely, the enjoyment of life and liberty, with the means of acquiring and possessing property, and pursuing and obtaining happiness and safety.
الصفحة 23 - Sensible of this momentous truth, you have improved upon your first essay by the adoption of a constitution of government better calculated than your former for an intimate union, and for the efficacious management of your common concerns. This government, the offspring of our own choice, uninfluenced and...
الصفحة 349 - ... best which is capable of producing the greatest degree of happiness and safety, and is most effectually secured against the danger of maladministration; and that...
الصفحة 420 - That the printing presses shall be free to every person who undertakes to examine the proceedings of the legislature or any branch of government : and no law shall ever be made to restrain the right thereof. The free communication of thoughts .and opinions is one of the invaluable rights of man ; and every citizen may freely speak, write and print on any subject, being responsible for the abuse of that liberty.