The Woman Citizen's Library: Political science, by J. MacyShailer Mathews Civics Society, 1913 The underlying theme of these essays by reformers such as Jane Addams and Florence Kelly is women's civic responsibility to play a vital role in public affairs. |
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administration AMALIENBORG PALACE American Articles of Confederation Asia barons become century citizens civil classes colonial commands common Constitution Constitution of Switzerland courts custom democ democracy democratic despotic notion destroy diplomacy doctrine effect enforced England English Europe exercise fact federal Federalist form of government France Goldwin Smith Henry Henry VII Hildreth Holy Alliance Indian injustice international law Jefferson Judson jury justice king legislation liberty McMaster means ment Missouri compromise monarchs Monroe Doctrine moral sense nations nature notion of law obedience obey Old World opinion orderly organized PALACE Parliament party persons political positive law President principles question race racy recognized reign relation ruler rules of conduct Schouler sentiment slavery slaves sovereign sovereignty subject to law SUPPLEMENTARY READING CHAPTER Swiss Switzerland tariff taxes tion treaty tribe tyrant ultimate sanction United vaccination voluntary society Whig Whig party word
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Stran 614 - And can the liberties of a nation be thought secure when we have removed their only firm basis, a conviction in the minds of the people that these liberties are of the gift of God?
Stran 613 - If a parent could find no motive either in his philanthropy or his self-love, for restraining the intemperance of passion towards his slave, it should always be a sufficient one that his child is present.
Stran 623 - The Cantons are sovereign, so far as their sovereignty is not limited by the Federal Constitution ; and, as such, they exercise all the rights which are not delegated to the federal government.
Stran 613 - The parent storms, the child looks on, catches the lineaments of wrath, puts on the same airs in the circle of smaller slaves, gives a loose to the worst of passions, and thus nursed, educated, and daily exercised in tyranny, cannot but be stamped by it with odious peculiarities. The man must be a prodigy who can retain his manners and morals undepraved by such circumstances.
Stran 573 - From this method of interpreting laws (says Blackstone) by the reason of them, arises what we call equity;" which is thus defined by Grotius, "the correction of that, wherein the law, by reason of its universality, is deficient...
Stran 564 - ... to grasp themselves, or put into the hands of any other, an absolute power over the lives, liberties, and estates of the people; by this breach of trust they forfeit the power the people had put into their hands for quite contrary ends, and it devolves to the people, who have a right to resume their original liberty, and by the establishment of a new legislative (such as they shall think fit) ; provide for their own safety and security, which is the end for which they are in society.
Stran 613 - And with what execration should the statesman be loaded, who, permitting one half the citizens thus to trample on the rights of the other, transforms those into despots, and these into enemies, destroys the morals of the one part, and the amor patriae of the other.
Stran 613 - There must doubtless be an unhappy influence on the manners of our people produced by the existence of slavery among us. The whole commerce between master and slave is a perpetual exercise of the most boisterous passions, the most unremitting despotism on the one part, and degrading submissions on the other. Our children see this, and learn to imitate it; for man is an imitative animal. This quality is the germ of all education in him. From his cradle to his grave he is learning to do what he sees...
Stran 573 - ... was held after long debate not to extend to the surgeon, who opened the vein of a person that fell down in the street with a fit. 5. But, lastly, the most universal and effectual way of discovering the true meaning of a law, when the words are dubious is by considering the reason and spirit of it or the cause which moved the legislator to enact it.
Stran 593 - Nor would a political society escape from legal despotism, although the power of the sovereign were bounded by legal restraints. The power of the superior sovereign immediately imposing the restraints, or the power of some other sovereign superior to that superior, would still be absolutely free from the fetters of positive law. For unless the imagined restraints were ultimately imposed by a sovereign not in a state of subjection to a higher or superior sovereign, a series of sovereigns ascending...