The Life of Thomas Jefferson, Third President of the United States: With Parts of His Correspondence Never Before Published, and Notices of His Opinions on Questions of Civil Government, National Policy, and Constitutional Law, Band 2Carey, Lea & Blanchard, 1837 - 4 Seiten |
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... called our merchants , fill our sea - ports , are planted in every little town and district of the interior country , sway every thing in the former places by their own votes , and those of their dependants in the latter , by their ...
... called our merchants , fill our sea - ports , are planted in every little town and district of the interior country , sway every thing in the former places by their own votes , and those of their dependants in the latter , by their ...
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... receipt of visits in my public room , the door continuing free to every one who should call at the same time , may be called closeting , then it is true that I was closeted with every person who visited 40 THE LIFE OF THOMAS JEFFERSON .
... receipt of visits in my public room , the door continuing free to every one who should call at the same time , may be called closeting , then it is true that I was closeted with every person who visited 40 THE LIFE OF THOMAS JEFFERSON .
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... called the X Y Z fever , * had considerably abated through the country , and that the alien and sedition laws were working hard ; that he considered those laws as an experiment on the American mind , to see how far it would bear an ...
... called the X Y Z fever , * had considerably abated through the country , and that the alien and sedition laws were working hard ; that he considered those laws as an experiment on the American mind , to see how far it would bear an ...
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... called on Mr. Madison on his way to Monticello . The election of members of Congress as well as delegates to the assembly coming on at this time , in Virginia , great exer- tions were made by both parties to add to their strength both ...
... called on Mr. Madison on his way to Monticello . The election of members of Congress as well as delegates to the assembly coming on at this time , in Virginia , great exer- tions were made by both parties to add to their strength both ...
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... called the common law of England , and which is not to be found in any legislative act , but the evidence of which exists only in the de- cisions of the courts , and in immemorial usages , had authority in the federal government ; and ...
... called the common law of England , and which is not to be found in any legislative act , but the evidence of which exists only in the de- cisions of the courts , and in immemorial usages , had authority in the federal government ; and ...
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Seite 74 - I have sworn upon the altar of God, eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man.
Seite 88 - Still one thing more, fellow-citizens, a wise and frugal government, which shall restrain men from injuring one another, shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned.
Seite 389 - Some men look at constitutions with sanctimonious reverence, and deem them like the ark of the covenant, too sacred to be touched. They ascribe to the men of the preceding age a wisdom more than human, and suppose what they did to be beyond amendment.
Seite 88 - ... enlightened by a benign religion, professed indeed and practiced in various forms, yet all of them inculcating honesty, truth, temperance, gratitude, and the love of man, acknowledging and adoring an overruling providence, which by all its dispensations proves that it delights in the happiness of man here, and his greater happiness hereafter; with all these blessings, what more is necessary to make us a happy and prosperous people?
Seite 87 - If there be any among us who would wish to dissolve this Union, or to change its republican form, let them stand undisturbed as monuments of the safety with which error of opinion may be tolerated, where reason is left free to combat it.
Seite 482 - to lay and collect taxes, to pay the debts and provide for the common defense and general welfare of the United States...
Seite 147 - The Constitution has made no provision for our holding foreign territory, still less for incorporating foreign nations into our Union. The Executive, in seizing the fugitive occurrence which so much advances the good of their country, have done an act beyond the Constitution.
Seite 215 - Their patriotism would certainly prefer its continuance and application to the great purposes of the public education, roads, rivers, canals, and such other objects of public improvement as it may be thought proper to add to the constitutional enumeration of federal powers.
Seite 101 - If a due participation of office is a matter of right, how are vacancies to be obtained ? Those by death are few ; by resignation, none. Can any other mode than that of removal be proposed ? This is a painful office ; but it is made my duty, and I meet it as such.
Seite 343 - ... been inconsistent in creation to have formed man for the social state, and not to have provided virtue and wisdom enough to manage the concerns of the society. May we not even say, that that form of government is the best, which provides the most effectually for a pure selection of these natural aristoi into the offices of government? The artificial aristocracy is a mischievous ingredient in government, and provision should be made to prevent its ascendency.