Republican Superstitions as Illustrated in the Political History of AmericaH. S. King, 1872 - 130 páginas |
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... foreign enemy . Its brief duration showed that the State was everything , the solidarity of the people nothing ; and after a life enfeebled by inter - state jealousies , its inharmonious existence terminated . This feeling of the ...
... foreign enemy . Its brief duration showed that the State was everything , the solidarity of the people nothing ; and after a life enfeebled by inter - state jealousies , its inharmonious existence terminated . This feeling of the ...
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... foreign invasion which had formed it began to vanish - it broke asunder . The weak- ness that proved fatal was the absence of any sufficient central authority , which was but the counterpart of the preponderant provincial pride and ...
... foreign invasion which had formed it began to vanish - it broke asunder . The weak- ness that proved fatal was the absence of any sufficient central authority , which was but the counterpart of the preponderant provincial pride and ...
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... foreign power , if it were sought to bind its will by the controlling power of the larger States . The result was a compromise . It was finally agreed that in the new union there should be , as it were , a double set of States . The old ...
... foreign power , if it were sought to bind its will by the controlling power of the larger States . The result was a compromise . It was finally agreed that in the new union there should be , as it were , a double set of States . The old ...
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... foreign lands ; and it must be admitted that the Representative Assembly of the greatest Republic in the world has acquired but little repu- tation for ability beyond its own walls . This charge might not weigh so heavily if it had , as ...
... foreign lands ; and it must be admitted that the Representative Assembly of the greatest Republic in the world has acquired but little repu- tation for ability beyond its own walls . This charge might not weigh so heavily if it had , as ...
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... Foreign Affairs , the confirmation of ambassadors , and in its special relation , as an advisory body , with the President . Moreover , the Senators are required to be older men than the Representatives . It has thus become the ...
... Foreign Affairs , the confirmation of ambassadors , and in its special relation , as an advisory body , with the President . Moreover , the Senators are required to be older men than the Representatives . It has thus become the ...
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