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... become unable to fight , so that great armies of them will flee before a handful of freemen , as in the case of the ancient Persians and the modern Egyptians . To strike down the executive head of such an assemblage of enslaved tribes ...
... become unable to fight , so that great armies of them will flee before a handful of freemen , as in the case of the ancient Persians and the modern Egyptians . To strike down the executive head of such an assemblage of enslaved tribes ...
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... become universal.1 It will be seen hereafter how strongly we insist upon these ideas in maintaining that the difference between the English and French people is much more that of history and circumstances than that of race ; as also how ...
... become universal.1 It will be seen hereafter how strongly we insist upon these ideas in maintaining that the difference between the English and French people is much more that of history and circumstances than that of race ; as also how ...
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... becomes very much more true as civilization advances . From early childhood to maturity , even in the case of boys , the plastic influence of the father is comparatively slight , and in the case of girls the action of the mother ...
... becomes very much more true as civilization advances . From early childhood to maturity , even in the case of boys , the plastic influence of the father is comparatively slight , and in the case of girls the action of the mother ...
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... become the model of all princes . Nor had its government and its relation to its subjects struck all men as they seem to have struck Chesterfield . If any one regards , to go no further back , the last half of the reign of Louis XIV ...
... become the model of all princes . Nor had its government and its relation to its subjects struck all men as they seem to have struck Chesterfield . If any one regards , to go no further back , the last half of the reign of Louis XIV ...
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... become more insecure than they were before . . . . The sober student of history will note it as a fact , to be considered in the most serious spirit , that since the century during which the Roman emperors were at the mercy of the ...
... become more insecure than they were before . . . . The sober student of history will note it as a fact , to be considered in the most serious spirit , that since the century during which the Roman emperors were at the mercy of the ...
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Page 56 - States, to devise such further provisions as shall appear to them necessary to render the constitution of the federal government adequate to the exigencies of the union...
Page 382 - A respect for truth, however, obliges us to remark that they seem never for a moment to have turned their eyes from the danger to liberty from the overgrown and all-grasping prerogative of an hereditary magistrate, supported and fortified by an hereditary branch of the legislative authority. They seem never to have recollected the danger from legislative usurpations, which, by assembling all power in the same hands, must lead to the same tyranny as is threatened by executive usurpations.
Page 92 - A cabinet is a combining committee — a hyphen which joins, a buckle which fastens, the legislative part of the state to the executive part of the state.
Page 512 - To-day the United States is practically sovereign on this continent, and its fiat is law upon the subjects to which it confines its interposition.
Page 406 - The house of assembly shall not originate or pass any vote, resolution, address, or bill for the appropriation of any part of the public revenue or of any tax or impost to any purpose unless such appropriation has been recommended by message from the governor-general during the session in which such vote, resolution, address, or bill is proposed.
Page 513 - When such a report is made and accepted, it will in my opinion be the duty of the United States to resist by every means in its power as a...
Page 46 - Experience had proved a tendency in our governments to throw all power into the Legislative vortex. The Executives of the States are in general little more than Cyphers; the legislatures omnipotent. If no effectual check be devised for restraining the instability and encroachments of the latter, a revolution of some kind or other would be inevitable.
Page 382 - The Legislative department is everywhere extending the sphere of its activity, and drawing all power into its impetuous vortex.
Page 382 - All the powers of government, legislative, executive and judiciary, result to the legislative body. The concentrating these in the same hands is precisely the definition of despotic government. It will be no alleviation, that these powers will be exercised by a plurality of hands, and not by a single one. One hundred and seventy-three despots would surely be as oppressive as one.
Page 83 - That levying money for or to the use of the Crown, by pretence of prerogative, without grant of parliament, for longer time or in other manner than the same is or shall be granted, is illegal.