Democracy Today: An American InterpretationChristian Gauss Scott, Foresman, 1917 - 310 страница |
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... authority than Woodrow Wilson . " As a matter of fact democracy as we know it is no older than the end of the eighteenth century . The doctrines which sustain it can scarcely be said to derive any support at all from the practices of ...
... authority than Woodrow Wilson . " As a matter of fact democracy as we know it is no older than the end of the eighteenth century . The doctrines which sustain it can scarcely be said to derive any support at all from the practices of ...
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... authority like the English political historians , Lecky and Sir Henry Maine , have looked upon certain recent popular tendencies with grave misgiving . Maine admitted that the great tendency of recent decades has been to turn power more ...
... authority like the English political historians , Lecky and Sir Henry Maine , have looked upon certain recent popular tendencies with grave misgiving . Maine admitted that the great tendency of recent decades has been to turn power more ...
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... authority reside in the people , yet they can act only indirectly on the national policy . This generation has seen a democracy with an imperial figurehead , 2 and in all that have ever existed the body politic has never embraced all ...
... authority reside in the people , yet they can act only indirectly on the national policy . This generation has seen a democracy with an imperial figurehead , 2 and in all that have ever existed the body politic has never embraced all ...
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... authority , to lessen the respect due to eminence , whether in station , virtue , or genius . If these things were so , society could not hold together . Perhaps the best forcing - house of robust individuality would be where public ...
... authority , to lessen the respect due to eminence , whether in station , virtue , or genius . If these things were so , society could not hold together . Perhaps the best forcing - house of robust individuality would be where public ...
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... authority , it is one of the symptoms of the time that the religious reverence for it is declining everywhere , but this is due partly to the fact that statecraft is no longer looked upon as a mystery , but as a business , and partly to ...
... authority , it is one of the symptoms of the time that the religious reverence for it is declining everywhere , but this is due partly to the fact that statecraft is no longer looked upon as a mystery , but as a business , and partly to ...
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Страница 239 - ... vacancies happen in the representation of any State in the Senate, the executive authority of such State shall issue writs of election to fill such vacancies: Provided, That the legislature of any State may empower the executive thereof to make temporary appointments until the people fill the vacancies by election as the legislature may direct. This amendment shall not be so construed as to affect the election or term of any Senator chosen before it becomes valid as part of the Constitution.
Страница 111 - I am proposing, as it were, that the nations should with one accord adopt the doctrine of President Monroe as the doctrine of the world: That no nation should seek to extend its...
Страница 228 - No person except a natural-born citizen, or a citizen of the United States at the time of the adoption of this Constitution, shall be eligible to the office of President; neither shall any person be eligible to that office who shall not have attained to the age of thirty-five years, and been fourteen years a resident within the United States.
Страница 17 - It is for us, the living, rather to be dedicated here to the unfinished work that they have thus far so nobly carried on. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us; that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they here gave the last, full measure of devotion; that we here highly resolve that...
Страница 17 - But in a larger sense we cannot dedicate, we cannot consecrate, we cannot hallow this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it far above our power to add or detract. The world will little note, nor long remember, what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here.
Страница 222 - The times, places and manner of holding elections for senators and representatives shall be prescribed in each State by the legislature thereof; but the Congress may at any time, by law, make or alter such regulations, except as to the places of choosing senators.
Страница 138 - We shall, happily, still have an opportunity to prove that friendship in our daily attitude and actions...
Страница 136 - We are accepting this challenge of hostile purpose because we know that in such a government, following such methods, we can never have a friend ; and that in the presence of its organized power, always lying in wait to accomplish we know not what purpose, there can be no assured security for the democratic governments of the world.
Страница 133 - Our object now, as then, is to vindicate the principles of peace and justice in the life of the world as against selfish and autocratic power and to set up amongst the really free and self-governed peoples of the world such a concert of purpose and of action as will henceforth ensure the observance of those principles.
Страница 117 - ... if American ships and American lives should, in fact, be sacrified by their naval commanders in heedless contravention of the just and reasonable understandings of international law and the obvious dictates of humanity, I shall take the liberty of coming again before the Congress to ask that authority be given me to use any means that may be necessary for the protection of our seamen and our people in the prosecution of their peaceful and legitimate errands on the high seas.