Parties and Party LeadersMarshall Jones Company, 1923 - 267 páginas |
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Página xxi
... existing parliamentary rights , but he was not enough of a modern to see that with the age of discussion the king must learn to govern through the parliament . Pym had insisted that the king's advisers were to be responsible to ...
... existing parliamentary rights , but he was not enough of a modern to see that with the age of discussion the king must learn to govern through the parliament . Pym had insisted that the king's advisers were to be responsible to ...
Página xxxiii
... existing along with the so - called local " caucus , " was soon adopted in the many subdivisions of the government for the purpose of nominating candidates for lesser offices . Along with this came the development of per- manent ...
... existing along with the so - called local " caucus , " was soon adopted in the many subdivisions of the government for the purpose of nominating candidates for lesser offices . Along with this came the development of per- manent ...
Página 26
... existing parties . The cause of this dissatisfaction is that they have become converts to a new policy which promises to do more for the welfare of the state , or the welfare of the class or section to which they belong , or and this is ...
... existing parties . The cause of this dissatisfaction is that they have become converts to a new policy which promises to do more for the welfare of the state , or the welfare of the class or section to which they belong , or and this is ...
Página 27
... existing party can be won over to its service . It was , for example , the part taken in 1854 by the Southern Whigs in the repeal of the Missouri Compromise that determined the date of the organization of the Republican party . But ...
... existing party can be won over to its service . It was , for example , the part taken in 1854 by the Southern Whigs in the repeal of the Missouri Compromise that determined the date of the organization of the Republican party . But ...
Página 35
... existing order and unnecessarily hurts established interests is the character- istic of revolution ; but it is perhaps the chief merit of party government that it secures the benefits of revolution while avoiding the evils of the ...
... existing order and unnecessarily hurts established interests is the character- istic of revolution ; but it is perhaps the chief merit of party government that it secures the benefits of revolution while avoiding the evils of the ...
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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.