American Government and PoliticsMacmillan, 1924 - 820 страница |
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... called upon to surrender , for its uses , a large share of our property , in addition to ordinary taxes ; to fight for it ; and if need be die for it . Wherever we live and work we enjoy its benefits and protection and are subject to ...
... called upon to surrender , for its uses , a large share of our property , in addition to ordinary taxes ; to fight for it ; and if need be die for it . Wherever we live and work we enjoy its benefits and protection and are subject to ...
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... called it , would work for the general good . They thought that in a society of struggling individuals each person would rise or fall in the scale of wealth and well - being according to his talents and industry . The keen and able ...
... called it , would work for the general good . They thought that in a society of struggling individuals each person would rise or fall in the scale of wealth and well - being according to his talents and industry . The keen and able ...
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... called " personal liberty , " the right to do as one pleases in personal conduct and in the use of property . Some of the prohibitions are framed in the interest of public order ; others in the interest of economic groups ; still others ...
... called " personal liberty , " the right to do as one pleases in personal conduct and in the use of property . Some of the prohibitions are framed in the interest of public order ; others in the interest of economic groups ; still others ...
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... called in political slang " a peanut politician , " that is , one narrow in mind , devoted to petty business , and incapable of taking a large view of things . Somewhere between is the golden mean . Far more perplexing is the problem of ...
... called in political slang " a peanut politician , " that is , one narrow in mind , devoted to petty business , and incapable of taking a large view of things . Somewhere between is the golden mean . Far more perplexing is the problem of ...
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... called upon soon to assume the burden of making good on their criticisms and promises . This system has been characterized by Frederick A. Cleveland , as " government by irresponsible abuse . ” 1 For a government of delays and ...
... called upon soon to assume the burden of making good on their criticisms and promises . This system has been characterized by Frederick A. Cleveland , as " government by irresponsible abuse . ” 1 For a government of delays and ...
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Страница 298 - ... the candid citizen must confess that if the policy of the Government, upon vital questions affecting the whole people, is to be irrevocably fixed by decisions of the Supreme Court, the instant they are made in ordinary litigation between parties in personal actions, the people will have ceased to be their own rulers, having to that extent practically resigned their government into the hands of that eminent tribunal.
Страница 339 - It is our true policy to steer clear of permanent alliances with any portion of the foreign world...
Страница 80 - Resolved by the senate and house of representatives of the United States of America in congress assembled (two-thirds of both houses concurring,) That the following article be proposed to the legislatures of the several states as an amendment to the constitution of the United States...
Страница 499 - ... on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude...
Страница 297 - That the new dogma, that the constitution, of its own force, carries slavery into any or all of the territories of the United States...
Страница 19 - But the most common and durable source of factions, has been the various and unequal distribution of property. Those who hold, and those who are without property, have ever formed distinct interests in society.
Страница 288 - That power is capable of acting only when the subject is submitted to it by a party who asserts his rights in the form prescribed by law. It then becomes a case, and the constitution declares that the judicial power shall extend to all cases arising under the constitution, laws and treaties of the United States.
Страница 765 - What I, therefore, propose, as the simple yet sovereign remedy, which will raise wages, increase the earnings of capital, extirpate pauperism, abolish poverty, give remunerative employment to whoever wishes it, afford free scope to human powers, lessen crime, elevate morals, and taste, and intelligence, purify government and carry civilization to yet nobler heights, is — to appropriate rent by taxation.
Страница 105 - In such cases the purposes of men are much more easily understood than in cases of ordinary crime. The man who stands by and says nothing when the peril of his Government is discussed cannot be misunderstood. If not hindered, he is sure to help the enemy ; much more if he talks ambiguously — talks for his country with "buts" and " ifs " and
Страница 483 - It follows that any legal proceeding enforced by public authority, whether sanctioned by age and custom, or newly devised in the discretion of the legislative power, in furtherance of the general public good, which regards and preserves these principles of liberty and justice, must be held to be due process of law.