Our Government: Brief Talks to the American Youth on Our Governments, General and LocalBowen-Merrll Company, 1900 - 325 páginas |
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Página 35 - to the United States in congress assembled. ART. III. The said states hereby severally enter into a firm league of friendship with each other, for their common defense, the security of their liberties, and their mutual and general welfare, binding themselves to assist each other against all force offered to, or attacks
Página 266 - discriminations. Let me now take a more comprehensive view, and warn you in the most solemn manner against the baneful effects of the spirit of party generally. The spirit, unfortunately, is inseparable from our nature, having its root in the strongest passions of the human mind. It exista under different shapes in all governments, more or
Página 270 - in us to implicate ourselves?, by artificial ties, in the ordinary vicissitudes of her politics, or the ordinary combinations and collisions of her friendships or enmities. Our detached and distant situation invites and enables us to pursue a different course. If \ve remain one people, under an
Página 268 - in the measures for obtaining revenue which the public exigencies may at any time dictate. Observe good faith and justice towards all nations ; cultivate peace and harmony with all. Religion and morality enjoin this conduct, and can it be that good policy does not equally enjoin it? It will
Página 270 - to have with them as little political connection" as possible. So far as we have already formed engagements, let them be fulfilled with perfect good faith. Here let us stop. Europe has a set of primary interests which to us have none, ora very remote relation. Hence she
Página 59 - Section 8. The congress shall have power— 1. To lay and collect taxes, duties, imposts, and excises, to pay the debts and provide for the common defense and general welfare of the United States; but all duties, imposts, and excises shall be uniform throughout the United States; 3. To regulate commerce with foreign nations,
Página 270 - government, the period is not far off when we may defy material injury from external annoyance; when we may take such an attitude a» will cause the neutrality we may at any time resolve upon to be scrupulously respected ; when belligerent nations, under the impossibility of making acquisitions upon
Página 56 - five; South Carolina, five, and Georgia, three. the executive authority thereof shall issue writs of election to fill such vacancies. 5. The house of representatives shall choose their speaker and other officers, and shall have the sole power of impeachment. Section 3. 1. The senate of the United States
Página 46 - the power of entering into treaties and alliances, provided that no treaty of commerce shall be made whereby the legislative power of the respective states shall be restrained from imposing such imposts and duties on foreigners as their own people are subject to, or from prohibiting the exportation or importation of any species of goods or commodities whatever.
Página 266 - looking forward to an extremity of this kind (which, nevertheless, ought not to be entirely ont of sight) the common and continual mischiefs of the spirit of party are sufficient to make it the interest and duty of a wise people to discourage and restrain it. It serves always to distract the public councils and enfeeble