Democracy Today: An American InterpretationChristian Gauss Scott, Foresman, 1917 - 310 páginas |
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... regard ourselves as the initiators of and the sponsors for the democratic idea ; government of the people , by the people , and for the people , as Lin- coln put it in memorable words . It was such a state based on ideas of freedom and ...
... regard ourselves as the initiators of and the sponsors for the democratic idea ; government of the people , by the people , and for the people , as Lin- coln put it in memorable words . It was such a state based on ideas of freedom and ...
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... regard it as something which will " run itself " or which has " always been so . " Indeed men of great authority like the English political historians , Lecky and Sir Henry Maine , have looked upon certain recent popular tendencies with ...
... regard it as something which will " run itself " or which has " always been so . " Indeed men of great authority like the English political historians , Lecky and Sir Henry Maine , have looked upon certain recent popular tendencies with ...
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... the responsibility which is ours ; and a fixed determination to show that under a free government a mighty people can thrive best , alike as regards the things of the body and the 59 ROOSEVELT OUR RESPONSIBILITIES AS A NATION.
... the responsibility which is ours ; and a fixed determination to show that under a free government a mighty people can thrive best , alike as regards the things of the body and the 59 ROOSEVELT OUR RESPONSIBILITIES AS A NATION.
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An American Interpretation Christian Gauss. alike as regards the things of the body and the things of the soul . Much has been given to us , and much will right- fully be expected from us . We have duties to others . and duties to ...
An American Interpretation Christian Gauss. alike as regards the things of the body and the things of the soul . Much has been given to us , and much will right- fully be expected from us . We have duties to others . and duties to ...
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... regards our own welfare , but as regards the welfare of mankind . If we fail , the cause of free self - government throughout the world will rock to its foundations ; and therefore our responsibility is heavy , to ourselves , to the ...
... regards our own welfare , but as regards the welfare of mankind . If we fail , the cause of free self - government throughout the world will rock to its foundations ; and therefore our responsibility is heavy , to ourselves , to the ...
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Página 28 - ... vacancies happen in the representation of any State in the Senate, the executive authority of such State shall issue writs of election to fill such vacancies: Provided, That the legislature of any State may empower the executive thereof to make temporary appointments until the people fill the vacancies by election as the legislature may direct. This amendment shall not be so construed as to affect the election or term of any Senator chosen before it becomes valid as part of the Constitution.
Página 216 - An independent Polish state should be erected, which should include the territories inhabited by indisputably Polish populations, which should be assured a free and secure access to the sea, and whose political and economic independence and territorial integrity should be guaranteed by international covenant.
Página 215 - All French territory should be freed and the invaded portions restored, and the wrong done to France by Prussia in 1871 in the- matter of Alsace-Lorraine, which has unsettled the peace of the world for nearly fifty years, should be righted, in order that peace may once more be made secure in the interest of all. IX. A readjustment of the frontiers of Italy should be effected along clearly recognizable lines of nationality. X. The peoples of Austria-Hungary, whose place among the nations we wish to...
Página 13 - To establish post offices and post roads; To promote the progress of science and useful arts, by securing for limited times to authors and inventors the exclusive right to their respective writings and discoveries; To constitute tribunals inferior to the Supreme Court; To define and punish piracies and felonies committed on the high seas, and...
Página 111 - I am proposing, as it were, that the nations should with one accord adopt the doctrine of President Monroe as the doctrine of the world: That no nation should seek to extend its...
Página 17 - Now we are engaged in a great civil war testing whether that nation or any nation so conceived and so dedicated can long endure. We are met on a great battlefield of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live.
Página 214 - A free, open-minded and absolutely impartial adjustment of all Colonial claims based upon a strict observance of the principle that in determining all such questions of sovereignty, the interests of the populations concerned must have equal weight with the equitable claims of the government whose title is to be determined.
Página 23 - Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press ; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.
Página 138 - We shall, happily, still have an opportunity to prove that friendship in our daily attitude and actions...
Página 136 - We are accepting this challenge of hostile purpose because we know that in such a government, following such methods, we can never have a friend; and that in the presence of its organized power, always lying in wait to accomplish we know not what purpose, there can be no assured security for the democratic governments of the world.