The Life of Thomas Jefferson, Third President of the United States: With Parts of His Correspondence Never Before Published, and Notices of His Opinions on Questions of Civil Government, National Policy, and Constitutional Law, المجلد 2Carey, Lea & Blanchard, 1837 - 4 من الصفحات |
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... Legislature of New York . Orders the dismission of a prosecution for a libel against him . Mr. Erskine's arrangement - its disavowal - his letter to the President . Vocabula- ries of Indian Languages . Letter to the Spanish Minister ...
... Legislature of New York . Orders the dismission of a prosecution for a libel against him . Mr. Erskine's arrangement - its disavowal - his letter to the President . Vocabula- ries of Indian Languages . Letter to the Spanish Minister ...
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... Legislature in behalf of the University . Letters to Mr. Nicholas . Resolutions of Kentucky . Nullification . His fears of the Judiciary -- Examined . Letter to Mr. Morse - against extensive voluntary associations . Ar- guments ...
... Legislature in behalf of the University . Letters to Mr. Nicholas . Resolutions of Kentucky . Nullification . His fears of the Judiciary -- Examined . Letter to Mr. Morse - against extensive voluntary associations . Ar- guments ...
الصفحة viii
... Legislature . Letters to Mr. Giles concerning President Adams . Letter to Mr. Madison . His pecuniary difficulties . His heavy ex- penses . Applies to the Legislature for leave to dispose of his Pro- perty by a Lottery . His hopes of ...
... Legislature . Letters to Mr. Giles concerning President Adams . Letter to Mr. Madison . His pecuniary difficulties . His heavy ex- penses . Applies to the Legislature for leave to dispose of his Pro- perty by a Lottery . His hopes of ...
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... legislature , where the motives , both personal and political , for adhering to the ground they have taken are so much more numerous and cogent ; and a majority of the nation , forgetting party attach- ments in the love of country ...
... legislature , where the motives , both personal and political , for adhering to the ground they have taken are so much more numerous and cogent ; and a majority of the nation , forgetting party attach- ments in the love of country ...
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... legislature to declare war . * - But this is completely eluded by a majority's taking such mea- sures as will be sure to produce war . " As he could find no consideration of interest or honour that was sufficient to justify war , he ...
... legislature to declare war . * - But this is completely eluded by a majority's taking such mea- sures as will be sure to produce war . " As he could find no consideration of interest or honour that was sufficient to justify war , he ...
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الصفحة 74 - I have sworn upon the altar of God, eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man.
الصفحة 88 - Still one thing more, fellow-citizens, a wise and frugal government, which shall restrain men from injuring one another, shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned.
الصفحة 389 - Some men look at constitutions with sanctimonious reverence, and deem them like the ark of the covenant, too sacred to be touched. They ascribe to the men of the preceding age a wisdom more than human, and suppose what they did to be beyond amendment.
الصفحة 88 - ... enlightened by a benign religion, professed indeed and practiced in various forms, yet all of them inculcating honesty, truth, temperance, gratitude, and the love of man, acknowledging and adoring an overruling providence, which by all its dispensations proves that it delights in the happiness of man here, and his greater happiness hereafter; with all these blessings, what more is necessary to make us a happy and prosperous people?
الصفحة 87 - If there be any among us who would wish to dissolve this Union, or to change its republican form, let them stand undisturbed as monuments of the safety with which error of opinion may be tolerated, where reason is left free to combat it.
الصفحة 482 - to lay and collect taxes, to pay the debts and provide for the common defense and general welfare of the United States...
الصفحة 147 - The Constitution has made no provision for our holding foreign territory, still less for incorporating foreign nations into our Union. The Executive, in seizing the fugitive occurrence which so much advances the good of their country, have done an act beyond the Constitution.
الصفحة 215 - Their patriotism would certainly prefer its continuance and application to the great purposes of the public education, roads, rivers, canals, and such other objects of public improvement as it may be thought proper to add to the constitutional enumeration of federal powers.
الصفحة 101 - If a due participation of office is a matter of right, how are vacancies to be obtained ? Those by death are few ; by resignation, none. Can any other mode than that of removal be proposed ? This is a painful office ; but it is made my duty, and I meet it as such.
الصفحة 343 - ... been inconsistent in creation to have formed man for the social state, and not to have provided virtue and wisdom enough to manage the concerns of the society. May we not even say, that that form of government is the best, which provides the most effectually for a pure selection of these natural aristoi into the offices of government? The artificial aristocracy is a mischievous ingredient in government, and provision should be made to prevent its ascendency.