 | Paul W. Kahn - 1997 - 324 strani
...seems to have been reserved to the people of this country, by their conduct and example, to decide the important question, whether societies of men are...of establishing good government from reflection and choice."7 Outside the bounds of loyalty to a particular past, the American Revolution offers universal... | |
 | Ed Cray, Jonathan Kotler, Miles Beller - 2003 - 444 strani
...seems to have been reserved to the people of this country, by their conduct and example, to decide the important question, whether societies of men are...are arrived, may with propriety be regarded as the era in which that decision is to be made; and a wrong election of the part we shall act, may, in this... | |
 | Robert A. McGuire - 2003 - 416 strani
...seems to have heen reserved to the people of this coontry, by their conduct and example, to decide the important question, whether societies of men are...their political constitutions on accident and force. Alexander Hamilton, The Federalist No. 1 The Constitution of the United States replaced the Articles... | |
 | Martha Banta - 2003 - 448 strani
...the world"; so too is the fate of its citizens, as "by their conduct and example" they will "decide the important question, whether societies of men are...their political constitutions on accident and force" (FP, No. 1 :89). A strong whiff of exceptionalism is imparted by Hamilton's belief in America's special... | |
 | Max. M Edling - 2003 - 356 strani
...seems to have been reserved to the people of this country. by their conduct and example. to decide the important question. whether societies of men are...their political constitutions. on accident and force." It has been estimated that within six weeks of the Philadelphia Convention's adjournment. the Constitution... | |
 | John Chester Miller - 692 strani
...said, were as important as any that had ever confronted a people: whether the union was to survive and whether "societies of men are really capable or not...their political constitutions on accident and force." A wrong decision, therefore, could be accounted a "general misfortune of mankind"; what Americans did... | |
 | Jennifer S. Holmes - 2003 - 184 strani
...despite Hamilton's declaration in Federalist 1 that the ratification of the Constitution would determine "whether societies of men are really capable or not...their political constitutions on accident and force," the powers of our central government might seem to be more the product of accident than reflection,... | |
 | Patrick J. Deneen - 2000 - 292 strani
...wrote at the outset of the Federalist, the American founding was one that provoked the question of "whether societies of men are really capable or not...for their political constitutions on accident and force."5 Partaking of the unique writtenness of the Western tradition, the Constitution is in some... | |
 | Aaron Tsado Gana, Samuel G. Egwu - 2003 - 386 strani
...by their conduct and example, to decide the important question, whether societies of men an realty capable or not of establishing good government from...depend for their political constitutions on accident or force. (Quoted in Movkovits, 1999:50 )(our emphasis) . Markovits suggests that the invention of... | |
 | Bryan-Paul Frost, Jeffrey Sikkenga - 2003 - 852 strani
...scrutiny of the scientific eye.29 Adams saw clearly that his science of history decided in the negative "the important question, whether societies of men...establishing good government from reflection and choice." In the world according to Adams the scientific historian, all is diminished to accident and force.... | |
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It has been frequently remarked that it seems to have been reserved to the people of this country, by their conduct and example, to decide the important question, whether societies of men are really capable or not of establishing good government from... 
