The Life of John Randolph of Roanoke, Հատոր 1D. Appleton, 1850 - 375 էջ |
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... representative of the baronial days in which it was built- when Virginia cavaliers , under the title of gentlemen , with their broad domain of virgin soil , and long retinue of servants , lived in a style of elegance and profusion , not ...
... representative of the baronial days in which it was built- when Virginia cavaliers , under the title of gentlemen , with their broad domain of virgin soil , and long retinue of servants , lived in a style of elegance and profusion , not ...
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... Representatives ; which , I believe , may justly be called a mere shred or rag of representation ; it being obvi- ous to the least examination , that smallness of number , and great comparative disparity of power , render that house of ...
... Representatives ; which , I believe , may justly be called a mere shred or rag of representation ; it being obvi- ous to the least examination , that smallness of number , and great comparative disparity of power , render that house of ...
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... Representatives , the election of senators by the State Legislatures , and the equal representation of the States in the Senate . In the first , there is some guarantee for the rights of the people ; in the se- cond , some protection to ...
... Representatives , the election of senators by the State Legislatures , and the equal representation of the States in the Senate . In the first , there is some guarantee for the rights of the people ; in the se- cond , some protection to ...
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... Representatives , which was but the shadow of repre- sentation , and could never inspire confidence in the people . He ob- jected to the marriage , as he called it , between the President and the Senate , and the extraordinary powers ...
... Representatives , which was but the shadow of repre- sentation , and could never inspire confidence in the people . He ob- jected to the marriage , as he called it , between the President and the Senate , and the extraordinary powers ...
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... representatives , and even the secretaries of the executive departments were favored with no higher title than honorable . This habit of conferring titles and drawing distinctions between the different departments of government , and ...
... representatives , and even the secretaries of the executive departments were favored with no higher title than honorable . This habit of conferring titles and drawing distinctions between the different departments of government , and ...
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Էջ 140 - They tell us, sir, that we are weak; unable to cope with so formidable an adversary. But when shall we be stronger? Will it be the next week, or the next year? Will it be when we are totally disarmed, and when a British guard shall be stationed in every house?
Էջ 140 - Three millions of people armed in the holy cause of liberty and in such a country as that which we possess, are invincible by any force which our enemy can send against us. Besides, sir, we shall not fight our battles alone.
Էջ 285 - An Act to interdict the commercial intercourse between the United States and Great Britain and France and their dependencies, and for other purposes...
Էջ 196 - 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.
Էջ 119 - States at any time during the continuance of this act, to order all such aliens as he shall judge dangerous to the peace and safety of the United States, or shall have reasonable grounds to suspect are concerned in any treasonable or secret machinations against the government thereof, to depart out of the territory of the United States, within such time as shall be expressed in such order...
Էջ 54 - The effect of liberty to individuals is that they may do what they please: we ought to see what it will please them to do, before we risk congratulations, which may be soon turned into complaints.
Էջ 29 - We have no detail of those great considerations which, in my opinion, ought to have abounded before we should recur to a government of this kind. Here is a revolution as radical as that which separated us from Great Britain.
Էջ 53 - I cannot stand forward, and give praise or blame to any thing which relates to human actions, and human concerns, on a simple view of the object as it stands stripped of every relation, in all the nakedness and solitude of metaphysical abstraction.
Էջ 77 - Whereas it appears that a state of war exists between Austria, Prussia, Sardinia, Great Britain, and the United Netherlands, of the one part, and France on the other, and the duty and interest of the United States require, that they should with sincerity and good faith adopt and pursue a conduct friendly and impartial toward the belligerent powers...
Էջ 42 - Treasury to digest and prepare plans for the improvement and management of the revenue, and for the support of public credit...