One Hundred Years of Platforms, Principles and Politics of the American DemocracyShelby Publishing Company, 1900 - 231 strani |
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... legislation , and schemes for plundering the treasury for purposes foreign to the true objects of good government . * * After Cleveland's second election , while reasoning on this same subject he said , that tariff taxes were only justi ...
... legislation , and schemes for plundering the treasury for purposes foreign to the true objects of good government . * * After Cleveland's second election , while reasoning on this same subject he said , that tariff taxes were only justi ...
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... legislation in money matters , is the man who earns his daily bread by his daily toil . " He repeats an earlier recommendation that , " The ab- solute divorcement of the government from the business of banking is the ideal relationship ...
... legislation in money matters , is the man who earns his daily bread by his daily toil . " He repeats an earlier recommendation that , " The ab- solute divorcement of the government from the business of banking is the ideal relationship ...
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... our natural right ; that the rightful power of all legislation is to declare and enforce only our natural right to commit aggressions on the equal MARTIN VAN BUREN THE NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY ASTOR , 50 THE AMERICAN DEMOCRACY.
... our natural right ; that the rightful power of all legislation is to declare and enforce only our natural right to commit aggressions on the equal MARTIN VAN BUREN THE NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY ASTOR , 50 THE AMERICAN DEMOCRACY.
Stran 51
... legislation , because they are violations of equal rights of the people ; hostil- ity to the dangerous and unconstitutional creation of vested rights or prerogatives by legislation , because they are usurpations of the peoples ...
... legislation , because they are violations of equal rights of the people ; hostil- ity to the dangerous and unconstitutional creation of vested rights or prerogatives by legislation , because they are usurpations of the peoples ...
Stran 57
... legislation for the benefit of the few at the expense of the many , and by a vigilant and constant adherence to those principles and compromises of the constitution , which are broad enough and strong enough to embrace and uphold the ...
... legislation for the benefit of the few at the expense of the many , and by a vigilant and constant adherence to those principles and compromises of the constitution , which are broad enough and strong enough to embrace and uphold the ...
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Stran 201 - Our first and fundamental maxim should be, never to entangle ourselves in the broils of Europe. Our second, never to suffer \ Europe to intermeddle with cis-Atlantic affairs. America, North and South, has a set of interests distinct from those of Europe, and peculiarly her own. She should therefore have a system of her own, separate and apart from that of Europe.
Stran 194 - Our policy, in regard to Europe, which was adopted at an early stage of the wars which have so long agitated that quarter of the globe, nevertheless remains the same, which is, not to interfere in the internal concerns of any of its powers ; to consider the government de facto as the legitimate government for us : to cultivate friendly relations with it, and to preserve those relations by a frank, firm, and manly policy; meeting, in all instances. the just claims of every power; submitting to injuries...
Stran 66 - American peop'le, that after four years of failure to restore the Union by the experiment of war...
Stran 203 - In the discussions to which this interest has given rise, and in the arrangements by which they may terminate, the occasion has been judged proper for asserting as a principle in which the rights, and interests of the United States are involved, that the American continents, by the free and independent condition which they have assumed and maintain, are henceforth not to be considered as subjects for future colonization by any European powers.
Stran 194 - It is impossible that the Allied Powers should extend their political system to any portion of either continent without endangering our peace and happiness ; nor can anyone believe that our Southern brethren, if left to themselves, would adopt it of their own accord. It is equally impossible, therefore, that we should behold such interposition in any form with indifference.
Stran 84 - ... with its administration to confine themselves within their respective constitutional spheres, avoiding in the exercise of the powers of one department to encroach upon another. The spirit of encroachment tends to consolidate the powers of all the departments in one, and thus to create, whatever the form of government, a real despotism.
Stran 52 - That the Federal Government is one of limited powers, derived solely from the Constitution, and the grants of power made therein ought to be strictly construed by all the departments and agents of the Government ; and that it is inexpedient and dangerous to exercise doubtful constitutional powers. "2. That the Constitution does not confer upon the General Government the power to commence and carry on a general system of Internal Improvements.
Stran 75 - Whereas, it is essential to just government we recognize the equality of all men before the law, and hold that it is the duty of government in its dealings with the people to mete out equal and exact justice to all, of whatever nativity, race, color, or persuasion, religious or political...
Stran 58 - That Congress has no power, under the Constitution, to interfere with or control the domestic institutions of the several States, and that such States are the sole and proper judges of everything appertaining to their own affairs not prohibited by the Constitution...
Stran 58 - That the liberal principles embodied by Jefferson in the Declaration of Independence, and sanctioned in the Constitution, which makes ours the land of Liberty, and the asylum of the oppressed of every nation, have ever been cardinal principles in the democratic faith...