Democracy Today: An American InterpretationChristian Gauss Scott, Foresman, 1917 - 310 من الصفحات |
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... stand the situation in which the country finds itself today , and which will serve also to clarify their ideas on the purposes and significance of America . The consciousness of any fixed , national purpose has never been strong in the ...
... stand the situation in which the country finds itself today , and which will serve also to clarify their ideas on the purposes and significance of America . The consciousness of any fixed , national purpose has never been strong in the ...
الصفحة 31
... stand or fall on its own merits as others have done before it . For there is no trick of perpetual motion in politics any more than in mechanics . Presi- dent Lincoln defined democracy to be " the govern- 999 ment of the people by the ...
... stand or fall on its own merits as others have done before it . For there is no trick of perpetual motion in politics any more than in mechanics . Presi- dent Lincoln defined democracy to be " the govern- 999 ment of the people by the ...
الصفحة 38
... stand a cynical cross - examination by an experienced criminal lawyer , except that of a per- fectly wise and perfectly good despot , such as the world has never seen , except in that white - haired king of Browning's , who Lived long ...
... stand a cynical cross - examination by an experienced criminal lawyer , except that of a per- fectly wise and perfectly good despot , such as the world has never seen , except in that white - haired king of Browning's , who Lived long ...
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... stand pat " on the day appointed for realization . We have fallen upon a time when it behooves every thoughtful citizen , whose political beliefs are based on reason and who cares enough for his manliness and duty to save them from ...
... stand pat " on the day appointed for realization . We have fallen upon a time when it behooves every thoughtful citizen , whose political beliefs are based on reason and who cares enough for his manliness and duty to save them from ...
الصفحة 63
... standing on this historic spot than it would be possible to realize them any- where else . The Declaration of Independence was written in Philadelphia ; it was adopted in this historic building by which we stand . I have just had the ...
... standing on this historic spot than it would be possible to realize them any- where else . The Declaration of Independence was written in Philadelphia ; it was adopted in this historic building by which we stand . I have just had the ...
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الصفحة 28 - ... 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.
الصفحة 216 - An independent Polish state should be erected, which should include the territories inhabited by indisputably Polish populations, which should be assured a free and secure access to the sea, and whose political and economic independence and territorial integrity should be guaranteed by international covenant.
الصفحة 215 - All French territory should be freed and the invaded portions restored, and the wrong done to France by Prussia in 1871 in the- matter of Alsace-Lorraine, which has unsettled the peace of the world for nearly fifty years, should be righted, in order that peace may once more be made secure in the interest of all. IX. A readjustment of the frontiers of Italy should be effected along clearly recognizable lines of nationality. X. The peoples of Austria-Hungary, whose place among the nations we wish to...
الصفحة 13 - To establish post offices and post roads; To promote the progress of science and useful arts, by securing for limited times to authors and inventors the exclusive right to their respective writings and discoveries; To constitute tribunals inferior to the Supreme Court; To define and punish piracies and felonies committed on the high seas, and...
الصفحة 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...
الصفحة 17 - Now we are engaged in a great civil war testing whether that nation or any nation so conceived and so dedicated can long endure. We are met on a great battlefield of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live.
الصفحة 214 - A free, open-minded and absolutely impartial adjustment of all Colonial claims based upon a strict observance of the principle that in determining all such questions of sovereignty, the interests of the populations concerned must have equal weight with the equitable claims of the government whose title is to be determined.
الصفحة 23 - Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press ; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.
الصفحة 138 - We shall, happily, still have an opportunity to prove that friendship in our daily attitude and actions...
الصفحة 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.