Bryce on American Democracy: Selections from "The American Commonwealth" and "The Hindrances to Good Citizenship"Macmillan, 1919 - 388 strani |
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American Commonwealth Articles of Confederation authority become Bryce's note called causes century Chapter cities citizens Civil colonies common Confederation Congress Convention danger deemed democracy democratic duty election England English equality Europe evils executive exist experience fact feeling force France German German Empire give habits Hanseatic League Holy Roman Empire immigrants individual influence institutions interest Italy land leaders legislation legislature less Lord Bryce majority mass ment mind Molly Maguire moral multitude National government native Americans nature newspapers Old World organs Parliament party passed perhaps persons political politicians popular government population practice President principles public opinion question race railroad reform Republic republican respect rich seems self-government Senate sense sentiment social social equality society sometimes speak spirit Spoils System statesman statute tendency theory things thought tion Union United vote wealth West whole
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Stran 343 - It is difficult to convey the idea of indissoluble unity more clearly than by these words. What can be indissoluble if a perpetual Union, made more perfect, is not...
Stran i - Spenser's Faerie Queene, Book I. Stevenson's Kidnapped. Stevenson's The Master of Ballantrae. Stevenson's Travels with a Donkey, and An Inland Voyage. Stevenson's Treasure Island. Swift's Gulliver's Travels. Tennyson's Idylls of the King. Tennyson's In Memoriam.
Stran 232 - Nor public flame, nor private dares to shine; Nor human spark is left, nor glimpse divine Lo, thy dread empire, Chaos ! is restored; Light dies before thy uncreating word : Thy hand, great Anarch, lets the curtain fall, And universal darkness buries all.
Stran 10 - Congress it is expedient that on the second Monday in May next a convention of delegates, who shall have been appointed by the several States, be held at Philadelphia for the sole and express purpose of revising the articles of Confederation and reporting to Congress and the several legislatures such alterations and provisions therein as shall, when agreed to in Congress and confirmed by the States, render the federal Constitution adequate to the exigencies of government and the preservation of the...
Stran 88 - England — of that great compound of folly, weakness, prejudice, wrong feeling, right feeling, obstinacy, and newspaper paragraphs, which is called public opinion...
Stran 343 - Not only therefore, can there be no loss of separate and independent autonomy to the States, through their union under the Constitution, but it may be not unreasonably said that the preservation of the States, and the maintenance of their governments, are as much within the design and care of the Constitution as the preservation of the Union and the maintenance of 1 County of Lane v. Oregon (1868) 7 Wallace 71, 76. the National government. .Thje_Constitution in all its provisions, looks to an indestructible...
Stran i - Macaulay's Essay on Addison. Macaulay's Essay on Hastings. Macaulay's Essay on Lord Clive. Macaulay's Essay on Milton. Macaulay's Lays of Ancient Rome. Macaulay's Life of Samuel Johnson.
Stran 343 - The union between Texas and the other States was as complete, as perpetual, and as indissoluble as the union between the original States. There was no place for reconsideration, or revocation, except through revolution, or through consent of the States.
Stran xx - ... that architectural conception of work, which foresees the end in the beginning and never loses sight of it, and in every part is conscious of all the rest, till the -last sentence does but, with undiminished vigour, unfold and justify the first...
Stran 17 - The American Constitution is no exception to the rule that everything which has power to win the obedience and respect of men must have its roots deep in the past, and that the more slowly every institution has grown, so much the more enduring is it likely to prove. There is little in this Constitution that is absolutely new. There is much that is as old as Magna Charta.