A More Perfect Union: To 1877Houghton Mifflin Company, 1996 - 256 páginas This two-volume primary source reader contains over 90 items and is organized chronologically and topically, with selections ranging from Lincoln's Gettysbury Address to Elizabeth Cady Stanton's Seneca Falls Declaration of 1848. Documents new to the fourth edition provide more coverage of the West and religion, as well as a variety of political, social, and economic documents. |
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Página 75
... majority , relief is supplied by the republican principle , which enables the majority to defeat its sinister views by regular vote . It may clog the administration , it may convulse the society ; but it will be unable to execute and ...
... majority , relief is supplied by the republican principle , which enables the majority to defeat its sinister views by regular vote . It may clog the administration , it may convulse the society ; but it will be unable to execute and ...
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... majority at the same time must be prevented , or the majority , having such coexistent passion or interest , must be rendered , by their number and local situation , unable to concert and carry into effect schemes of oppression . [ A ] ...
... majority at the same time must be prevented , or the majority , having such coexistent passion or interest , must be rendered , by their number and local situation , unable to concert and carry into effect schemes of oppression . [ A ] ...
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... majority held in restraint by constitutional checks and limitations , and always chang- ing easily with deliberate changes of popular opinions and sentiments , is the only true sovereign of a free people . Whoever rejects it does of ...
... majority held in restraint by constitutional checks and limitations , and always chang- ing easily with deliberate changes of popular opinions and sentiments , is the only true sovereign of a free people . Whoever rejects it does of ...
Contenido
RECREATING POLITICAL SOCIETY | 16 |
THE UNDERSIDE OF PRIVILEGE | 24 |
LEARNING AND PIETY | 34 |
Derechos de autor | |
Otras 19 secciones no mostradas
Términos y frases comunes
Abraham Lincoln American Anne Hutchinson appeared arms army bank became Boston called cause Charles Grandison Finney Christian church citizens Civil colony colored Congress Constitution Convention court declared Democratic duty election Elizabeth Cady Stanton England English established European excitements faction favor federal Federalist freedmen freedom give glory governor Hamilton hand hath human Hutchinson independence interest Jackson Jefferson John JOHN DE CRÈVECOEUR John Winthrop justice labor land legislation legislature libel liberty live Lord Lydia Maria Child manufacturing Massachusetts Mayflower Compact means ment minister nation nature negroes never Northern opinion oppression peace persons political Powhatan president principles protection Puritan Questions to Consider reform religion religious Republican party revivals slavery slaves society South Carolina Southern tariff territory things Thomas Jefferson tion Union United Virginia Washington Winthrop woman women wrote York Zenger