Our Democracy: Its Origins and Its TasksH. Holt, 1917 - 327 страница |
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... methods have been common . The first way that by which most of the villeins became " free , " namely , when men get education or wealth , they make their way one by one into a privileged class . The other way is by the help of the law ...
... methods have been common . The first way that by which most of the villeins became " free , " namely , when men get education or wealth , they make their way one by one into a privileged class . The other way is by the help of the law ...
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... method of managing and financing business . The system under which busi- ness is now carried on is called Capitalism . It involves new power in the world which is in many ways greater than the older political power which we have ...
... method of managing and financing business . The system under which busi- ness is now carried on is called Capitalism . It involves new power in the world which is in many ways greater than the older political power which we have ...
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... methods than the old military power , even if it is often very harsh in its competition . It is probably an advantage also to have more than one or two kinds of power . It will be safer for democ- racy and for the common man than if ...
... methods than the old military power , even if it is often very harsh in its competition . It is probably an advantage also to have more than one or two kinds of power . It will be safer for democ- racy and for the common man than if ...
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... method of govern- ment designed to protect the traders in their dealings with the natives . The Industrial Revolution began in England and made it possible to manufacture great quantities of cloth and other articles more cheaply than ...
... method of govern- ment designed to protect the traders in their dealings with the natives . The Industrial Revolution began in England and made it possible to manufacture great quantities of cloth and other articles more cheaply than ...
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... methods by which coöperation has been made effective . for union Dangers from the Indians and from the French , and Various later the quarrel with England , early led the colonists reasons to organize themselves for mutual defense and ...
... methods by which coöperation has been made effective . for union Dangers from the Indians and from the French , and Various later the quarrel with England , early led the colonists reasons to organize themselves for mutual defense and ...
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Страница 171 - That religion or the duty which we owe to our Creator, and the manner of discharging it, can be directed only by reason and conviction, not by force or violence ; and, therefore, all men are equally entitled to the free exercise of religion, according to the dictates of conscience ; and that it is the mutual duty of all to practice Christian forbearance, love and charity towards each other.
Страница 169 - That all men are by nature equally free and independent, and have certain inherent rights, of which, when they enter into a state of society, they cannot by any compact deprive or divest their posterity; namely, the enjoyment of life and liberty, with the means of acquiring and possessing property, and pursuing and obtaining happiness and safety.
Страница 194 - 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 222 - You can fool all of the people some of the time, and some of the people all of the time, but you can't fool all of the people all of the time.
Страница 257 - It is emphatically the province and duty of the judicial department to say what the law is. Those who apply the rule to particular cases must of necessity expound and interpret that rule. If two laws conflict with each other, the courts must decide on the operation of each.
Страница 202 - It is to that Union we owe our safety at home and our consideration and dignity abroad. It is to that Union that we are chiefly indebted for whatever makes us most proud of our country. That Union we reached only by the discipline of .our virtues in the severe school of adversity. It had its origin in the necessities of disordered finance, prostrate commerce, and ruined credit.
Страница 129 - The Tenure of Kings and Magistrates PROVING THAT IT IS LAWFUL, AND HATH BEEN HELD SO THROUGH ALL AGES, FOR ANY WHO HAVE THE POWER TO CALL TO ACCOUNT A TYRANT, OR WICKED KING, AND AFTER DUE CONVICTION TO DEPOSE AND PUT HIM TO DEATH, IF THE ORDINARY MAGISTRATE HAVE NEGLECTED OR DENIED TO DO IT.
Страница 238 - There is an opinion that parties in free countries are useful checks upon the administration of the government and serve to keep alive the spirit of liberty.
Страница 287 - The wilderness masters the colonist. It finds him a European in dress, industries, tools, modes of travel, and thought. It takes him from the railroad car and puts him in the birch canoe. It strips off the garments of civilization and arrays him in the hunting shirt and the moccasin.
Страница 270 - NATURE hath made men so equal in the faculties of body and mind as that, though there be found one man sometimes manifestly stronger in body or of quicker mind than another, yet when all is reckoned together the difference between man and man is not so considerable as that one man can thereupon claim to himself any benefit to which another may not pretend as well as he.