The Citizens' Manual of Government and Law: Comprising the Elementary Principles of Civil Government; a Practical View of the State Governments, and of the Government of the United States; a Digest of Common and Statutory Law, and of the Law of Nations; and a Summary of Parliamentary Rules for the Practice of Deliberative AssembliesH. Dayton, 1858 - 448 σελίδες |
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Σελίδα v
... political prosperity , lies in a general and an efficient system of education . Education is an interest of high importance to the people under any form of government ; but it is more especially so in this country , where the people are ...
... political prosperity , lies in a general and an efficient system of education . Education is an interest of high importance to the people under any form of government ; but it is more especially so in this country , where the people are ...
Σελίδα vi
... political duties , is not , to any con- siderable extent , made a special object of school instruction . Even in most of our seminaries , the science of civil govern- ment either finds no place in the course of study , or is re- garded ...
... political duties , is not , to any con- siderable extent , made a special object of school instruction . Even in most of our seminaries , the science of civil govern- ment either finds no place in the course of study , or is re- garded ...
Σελίδα vii
... political rights and duties . For some years past , however , this subject has received the attention of the friends of education ; and considerable progress has been made in this department of educational improvement , by the ...
... political rights and duties . For some years past , however , this subject has received the attention of the friends of education ; and considerable progress has been made in this department of educational improvement , by the ...
Σελίδα viii
... political power , and to do it in such a manner as to promote the best good of the whole . He should therefore act intel- ligently . No citizen has a moral right to jeopard the interests of a whole community by a random vote . It is his ...
... political power , and to do it in such a manner as to promote the best good of the whole . He should therefore act intel- ligently . No citizen has a moral right to jeopard the interests of a whole community by a random vote . It is his ...
Σελίδα x
... Political Parties , will especially interest young readers and others who are not familiar with the political history of this country . The body of the work is divided into chapters and sec- tions of suitable length , to increase its ...
... Political Parties , will especially interest young readers and others who are not familiar with the political history of this country . The body of the work is divided into chapters and sec- tions of suitable length , to increase its ...
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Σελίδα 369 - Houses repeatedly, for opposing with manly firmness his invasions on the rights of the people. He has refused for a long time, after such dissolutions to cause others to be elected ; whereby the Legislative Powers, incapable of Annihilation, have returned to the People at large for their exercise ; the State remaining in the mean time exposed to all the dangers of invasion from without, and convulsions within.
Σελίδα 370 - Determined to keep open a market where men should be bought and sold, he has prostituted his negative for suppressing every legislative attempt to prohibit or to restrain this execrable commerce.
Σελίδα 373 - ... do all other acts and things which independent states may of right do. And, for the support of this declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of Divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our lives, our fortunes, and our sacred honor. The foregoing Declaration was, by order of Congress, engrossed, and signed by the following members...
Σελίδα 379 - To coin money, regulate the value thereof, and of foreign coin, and fix the standard of weights and measures; To provide for the punishment of counterfeiting the securities and current coin of the United States; To establish post offices and post roads...
Σελίδα 431 - Of all the dispositions and habits which lead to political prosperity, religion and morality are indispensable supports. In vain would that man claim the tribute of patriotism, who should labor to subvert these great pillars of human happiness, these firmest props of the duties of men and citizens.
Σελίδα 420 - Measures, is hereby declared inoperative and void : it being the true intent and meaning of this act, not to legislate slavery into any territory or state, nor to exclude it therefrom, but to leave the people thereof perfectly free to form and regulate their domestic institutions in their own way, subject only to the constitution of the United States...
Σελίδα 374 - M'Kean. Maryland. — Samuel Chase, William Paca, Thomas Stone, Charles Carroll, of Carrollton. Virginia. — George Wythe, Richard Henry Lee, Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Harrison, Thomas Nelson, Jr., Francis Lightfoot Lee, Carter Braxton. North Carolina. — William Hooper, Joseph 'Hewes, John Penn. South Carolina. — Edward Rutledge, Thomas Heyward, Jr., Thomas Lynch, Jr., Arthur Middleton. Georgia. — Button Gwinnett, Lyman Hall, George Walton.
Σελίδα 116 - Resolved that in the opinion of Congress it is expedient that on the second Monday in May next a Convention of delegates who shall have been appointed by the several States be held at Philadelphia for the sole and express purpose of revising the Articles of Confederation and reporting to Congress and the several legislatures such alterations and provisions therein as shall when agreed to in Congress and confirmed by the States...
Σελίδα 369 - He has [suffered] * the administration of justice [totally to cease in some of these States] 2 refusing his assent to laws for establishing judiciary powers. He has made [our] judges dependent on his will alone for the tenure of their offices, and the amount and payment of their salaries. He has erected a multitude of new offices, [by a self-assumed power\ and sent hither swarms of new officers to harass our people and eat out their substance.
Σελίδα 431 - Whatever may be conceded to the influence of refined education on minds of peculiar structure, reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principle.