| John Curtis Samples - 2002 - 260 Seiten
...dense and compact form and greater force of civilized population; and of right it ought to yield, for the earth was given to mankind to support the greatest...is capable, and no tribe or people have a right to withold from the wants of others more than is necessary for their own support and comfort."11 Madison... | |
| Stuart Banner - 2005 - 366 Seiten
...dense and compact form and greater force of civilized population, and of right it ought to yield, for the earth was given to mankind to support the greatest...others more than is necessary for their own support and comfort."11 The motives behind such statements varied. John Sevier was democratically accountable to... | |
| John A. Andrew, III - 2007 - 450 Seiten
...President Monroe's annual message in December 1817 further heightened expectations. Monroe argued that "the earth was given to mankind to support the greatest...than is necessary for their own support and comfort." In addition, the War Department agreed to remove interpreters who opposed tribal cessions, and in 1818... | |
| Jacob Lassner, Selwyn Ilan Troen - 2007 - 416 Seiten
...notion became a staple of American thought. Typically, President James Monroe would write in 1822: "The earth was given to mankind to support the greatest number of which it is capable, and not tribe or people have a right to withhold from the wants of others more than is necessary for their... | |
| United States. President - 1858 - 802 Seiten
...dense and compact form and greater force of civilized population ; and of right it ought to yield, for the earth was given to mankind to support the greatest...support and comfort. It is gratifying to know that the reservation of land made by the treaties with the tribes on Lake Erie, were made with a view to individual... | |
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