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Página xxvii
... election went against them . In 1835 , with the resignation of the Peel Ministry , we have the first clear instance of a whole ministry resigning after failing to obtain the sup- port of the country in the general elections . Both the ...
... election went against them . In 1835 , with the resignation of the Peel Ministry , we have the first clear instance of a whole ministry resigning after failing to obtain the sup- port of the country in the general elections . Both the ...
Página xxix
... election of the president , and seemed to expect that this would operate in a non - partisan manner . No men- tion of parties exists in the Constitution . James Madison , in the famous No. X of the Federalist , indicated that he ...
... election of the president , and seemed to expect that this would operate in a non - partisan manner . No men- tion of parties exists in the Constitution . James Madison , in the famous No. X of the Federalist , indicated that he ...
Página xxx
... election . The party also fulfilled this need.2 Washington took the members of his cabinets from both parties , as William III and Anne had done almost one hun- dred years before . The legitimate function of an opposition 1 Writing from ...
... election . The party also fulfilled this need.2 Washington took the members of his cabinets from both parties , as William III and Anne had done almost one hun- dred years before . The legitimate function of an opposition 1 Writing from ...
Página xxxiii
... election for president in 1824 , as a result of which Jackson believed that he had been cheated out of the presidency . He and his supporters began a thorough - going attack upon the congressional control of the party nominating system ...
... election for president in 1824 , as a result of which Jackson believed that he had been cheated out of the presidency . He and his supporters began a thorough - going attack upon the congressional control of the party nominating system ...
Página xxxiv
... election of 1852. The Dem- ocratic party maintained a national organization until 1860 . It is highly significant that religious institutions which stood for Christian brotherhood should have been unable to main- tain their integrity ...
... election of 1852. The Dem- ocratic party maintained a national organization until 1860 . It is highly significant that religious institutions which stood for Christian brotherhood should have been unable to main- tain their integrity ...
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Página 127 - I believe this government cannot endure permanently half slave and half free. I do not expect the Union to be dissolved. I do not expect the house to fall, but I do expect it will cease to be divided. It will become all one thing, or all the other.
Página xxxi - The basis of our political systems is the right of the people to make and to alter their constitutions of government. But the constitution which at any time exists till changed by an explicit and authentic act of the whole people is sacredly obligatory upon all. The very idea of the power and the right of the people to establish government presupposes the duty of every individual to obey the established government.
Página 22 - I would do it; and if I could save it by freeing all the slaves, I would do it; and if I could do it by freeing some and leaving others alone, I would also do that. What I do about slavery and the colored race, I do because I believe it helps to save the Union; and what I forbear, I forbear because I do not believe it would help to save the Union.
Página 18 - Party is a body of men united, for promoting by their joint endeavours the national interest, upon some particular principle in which they are all agreed.
Página 127 - We are now far into the fifth year since a policy was initiated with the avowed object and confident promise of putting an end to slavery agitation. Under the operation of that policy, that agitation has not only not ceased, but has constantly augmented. In my opinion, it will not cease until a crisis shall have been reached and passed. "A house divided against itself cannot stand.
Página 179 - 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.
Página 127 - I do not expect the house to fall — but I do expect it will cease to be divided. It will become all one thing, or all the other. Either the opponents of slavery, will arrest the further spread of it, and place it where the public mind shall rest in the belief that it is in...
Página xxx - I never submitted the whole system of my opinions to the creed of any party of men whatever, in religion, in philosophy, in politics, or in any thing else, where I was capable of thinking for myself. Such an addiction is the last degradation of a free and moral agent. If I could not go to heaven but with a party, I would not go there at all.
Página 210 - That as slavery was the cause and now constitutes the strength of this rebellion, and as it must be always and everywhere hostile to the principles of republican government, justice and the national safety demand its utter and complete extirpation from the soil of the republic...
Página 209 - That the Constitution confers upon Congress sovereign power over the territories of the United States for their government, and that in the exercise of this power it is both the right and the duty of Congress to prohibit in the territories those twin relics of barbarism, polygamy, and slavery.