Building the American NationC. Scribner's sons, 1923 - 375 Seiten |
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... Federalist , and wholly in sympathy with the new constitution , although not publicly active in its support . The formal inauguration of President Washington took place in New York on April 30 , with appropriate ceremony . The father of ...
... Federalist , and wholly in sympathy with the new constitution , although not publicly active in its support . The formal inauguration of President Washington took place in New York on April 30 , with appropriate ceremony . The father of ...
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... Federalists . Their opponents were obviously anti - Federalists , and that name was ap- plied to them . Washington's unanimous election to the presi- dency and his unanimous re - election four years later marked the fact that , whatever ...
... Federalists . Their opponents were obviously anti - Federalists , and that name was ap- plied to them . Washington's unanimous election to the presi- dency and his unanimous re - election four years later marked the fact that , whatever ...
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... Federalist , Washington could not tread the same path with his fellow Virginian , and found himself steadily drawn ... Federalists , and the follow- ers of Jefferson and his group were first called Re- publicans , and some years ...
... Federalist , Washington could not tread the same path with his fellow Virginian , and found himself steadily drawn ... Federalists , and the follow- ers of Jefferson and his group were first called Re- publicans , and some years ...
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... Federalist or Republican party , as it was then called , teemed with expressions of contempt and abuse . The charge that Washing- ton had debauched the nation and deceived it was openly made and printed . He was even accused of having ...
... Federalist or Republican party , as it was then called , teemed with expressions of contempt and abuse . The charge that Washing- ton had debauched the nation and deceived it was openly made and printed . He was even accused of having ...
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... Federalist colleagues in the representation of the state of New York overbore him and cast the vote of his own state in constant opposition to his views , and since the plan for a constitution which he pre- sented in outline was not ...
... Federalist colleagues in the representation of the state of New York overbore him and cast the vote of his own state in constant opposition to his views , and since the plan for a constitution which he pre- sented in outline was not ...
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Seite 323 - Government here, by declaring us out of his Protection and waging War against us. He has plundered our seas, ravaged our Coasts, burnt our towns, and destroyed the lives of our people. He is at this time transporting large armies of foreign mercenaries to compleat the works of death, desolation and tyranny, already begun with circumstances of Cruelty & perfidy scarcely paralleled in the most barbarous ages, and totally unworthy the Head of a civilized nation. He has constrained our fellow Citizens...
Seite 261 - seem to be pursuing," as you say, I have not meant to leave any one in doubt. I would save the Union. I would save it the shortest way under the Constitution. The sooner the national authority can be restored, the nearer the Union will be — "the Union as it was.
Seite 261 - My paramount object in this struggle is to save the Union, and is not either to save or to destroy slavery. If I could save the Union without freeing any slave, I would do it ; and if I could save it by freeing all the slaves, I would do it ; and if I could save it by freeing some and leaving others alone, I would also do that.
Seite 344 - After one year from the ratification of this article the manufacture, sale, or transportation of intoxicating liquors within, the importation thereof into, or the exportation thereof from the United States and all territory subject to the jurisdiction thereof for beverage purposes is hereby prohibited. SECTION 2. The Congress and the several States shall have concurrent power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation.
Seite 344 - Section 2. The Congress and the several States shall have concurrent power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation. Section 3. This article shall be Inoperative unless it shall have been ratified as an amendment to the Constitution by the legislatures of the several states, as provided in the Constitution, within seven years from the date of the submission hereof to the States by the Congress.
Seite 325 - PROMOTE THE GENERAL WELFARE, AND SECURE THE BLESSINGS OF LIBERTY TO OURSELVES AND OUR POSTERITY, DO ORDAIN AND ESTABLISH THIS CONSTITUTION FOR THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. ARTICLE I SECTION i ( All legislative Powers herein granted shall be vested in a Congress of the United States, which shall consist of a Senate and a House of Representatives.
Seite 327 - Senators. The Congress shall assemble at least once in every Year, and such Meeting shall be on the first Monday in December, unless they shall by Law appoint a different Day.
Seite 346 - For when you assemble a number of men to have the advantage of their joint wisdom, you inevitably assemble with those men all their prejudices, their passions, their errors of opinion, their local interests, and their selfish views.
Seite 347 - In all our deliberations on this subject we kept steadily in our view, that which appears to us the greatest interest of every true American, the consolidation of our Union, in which is involved our prosperity, felicity, safety, perhaps our national existence.
Seite 350 - 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. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this. ***** But in a larger sense, we can not dedicate — we can not consecrate — we can not hallow — this ground.