Democracy Today: An American InterpretationChristian Gauss Scott, Foresman, 1917 - 310 страница |
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... ranted foreign interference and the unprovoked aggression of an autocratic power . Our democracy today is for the first time in history called upon to justify itself and to defend itself against autocracy . The 10 Democracy Today.
... ranted foreign interference and the unprovoked aggression of an autocratic power . Our democracy today is for the first time in history called upon to justify itself and to defend itself against autocracy . The 10 Democracy Today.
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... called an opinion , or who , even if he had , feels that he is justified in holding mankind by the button while he is expounding it . And in a world of daily - nay , almost hourly - jour- nalism , where every clever man , every man who ...
... called an opinion , or who , even if he had , feels that he is justified in holding mankind by the button while he is expounding it . And in a world of daily - nay , almost hourly - jour- nalism , where every clever man , every man who ...
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... called upon to say something in this place , where so many wiser men have spoken before me . Precluded , in my quality of national guest , by motives of taste and discretion , from dealing with any ques- tion of immediate and domestic ...
... called upon to say something in this place , where so many wiser men have spoken before me . Precluded , in my quality of national guest , by motives of taste and discretion , from dealing with any ques- tion of immediate and domestic ...
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... called easy circumstances who can afford the leisure to treat themselves to a handsome complaint , and these experience an immediate alleviation when once they have found a sonorous Greek name to abuse it by . There is something ...
... called easy circumstances who can afford the leisure to treat themselves to a handsome complaint , and these experience an immediate alleviation when once they have found a sonorous Greek name to abuse it by . There is something ...
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... called a monarchy with democratic tendencies , the United States a democ- racy with conservative instincts . People are continu- ally saying that America is in the air , and I am glad to think it is , since this means only that a ...
... called a monarchy with democratic tendencies , the United States a democ- racy with conservative instincts . People are continu- ally saying that America is in the air , and I am glad to think it is , since this means only that a ...
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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.