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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... Means of National Defence . CHAPTER XVII . 364 1815-1817 . Mr. Jefferson's views of the Constitution of Virginia . Letter to Mr. Kercheval . Distribution of power . Supposed wisdom of ancestors . Periodical revisions of the Constitution ...
... Means of National Defence . CHAPTER XVII . 364 1815-1817 . Mr. Jefferson's views of the Constitution of Virginia . Letter to Mr. Kercheval . Distribution of power . Supposed wisdom of ancestors . Periodical revisions of the Constitution ...
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... means , to keep alive all that popular favour towards France and her cause , and hatred of her great rival and enemy , which the peo- ple of this country had recently evinced . There had therefore never been a cessation of remonstrance ...
... means , to keep alive all that popular favour towards France and her cause , and hatred of her great rival and enemy , which the peo- ple of this country had recently evinced . There had therefore never been a cessation of remonstrance ...
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... means to attend to self - respect and national dignity with both nations , perhaps the depreda- tions of both on our commerce may be amicably arrested . I think we should have began first with those who first began with us , and by an ...
... means to attend to self - respect and national dignity with both nations , perhaps the depreda- tions of both on our commerce may be amicably arrested . I think we should have began first with those who first began with us , and by an ...
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... means which England then possessed of influencing public opinion in the United States , will scarcely ap- pear exaggerated to those who were acquainted with the state of the times ; but it must be remembered that it required their ...
... means which England then possessed of influencing public opinion in the United States , will scarcely ap- pear exaggerated to those who were acquainted with the state of the times ; but it must be remembered that it required their ...
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... means of exciting the whole body of the peo- ple from the state of inattention in which they are ; it will re- quire every member to call for the sense of his district by peti- tion or instruction ; it will show the people with which ...
... means of exciting the whole body of the peo- ple from the state of inattention in which they are ; it will re- quire every member to call for the sense of his district by peti- tion or instruction ; it will show the people with which ...
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Adams Adams's administration adverts afterwards American answer appointed authority Berlin decree Britain British Burr character citizens claims commerce Congress considered constitution Constitution of Virginia course debt declared defence dollars duties effect election embargo enemies England Europe executive favour fear federal party federalists feelings foreign France French friends give honour House independence interest Jefferson judges judiciary justice legislature letter Louisiana Madison measures ment mind minister Monroe Monticello nation navy negotiation neutral never North Carolina object obtained occasion opinion opposition orders in council Orleans paper passed peace political Poplar Forest ports present president principles purchase purpose question racter Randolph received remarks repeal republican party resolution says sedition sedition laws seems Senate sentiments session ships soon Spain supposed taxes Thomas Jefferson Randolph thought tion trade treaty Union United vessels views Virginia vote Washington whole wish
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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.