The Works of Orestes A. Brownson: PoliticsT. Nourse, 1885 |
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Σελίδα 354 - He has endeavored to prevent the population of these States ; for that purpose obstructing the laws for the naturalization of foreigners, refusing to pass others to encourage their migration hither and raising the conditions of new appropriations of lands.
Σελίδα 295 - I believe, towards the close of the last century, and the beginning of the present, sent out more living writers, in its proportion, than any other school.
Σελίδα 137 - ... to make rules for the government of the land and naval forces ; to provide for calling forth the militia to execute the laws of the union, suppress...
Σελίδα 18 - Maker through his kind, is not all that man needs in order to live, to grow, to actualize the possibilities of his nature, and to attain to his beatitude, since humanity is neither God nor the material universe, it is yet a necessary and essential condition of his life, his progress, and the completion of his existence. He is born and lives in society, and can be born and live nowhere else. It is one of the necessities of his nature. " God saw that it was not good for man to be alone.
Σελίδα 570 - ... the foolish things of the world hath God chosen that He may confound the wise, and the weak things of the world hath God chosen that He may confound the strong.
Σελίδα 136 - To borrow money on the credit of the United States; To regulate commerce with foreign nations, and among the several states, and with the Indian tribes...
Σελίδα 123 - Being thus derived from the same source as the constitutions of the states, it has within each state the same authority as the constitution of the state, and is as much a constitution in the strict sense of the term, within its prescribed sphere, as the constitutions of the states are within their respective spheres; but with this obvious and essential difference, that, being a compact among the states in their highest...
Σελίδα 199 - Let government take care of the rich, and the rich will take care of the poor," instead of the far safer maxim, "Let government take care of the weak, the strong can take care of themselves." Universal suffrage is better than restricted suffrage, but even universal suffrage is too weak to prevent private property from having an undue political influence. The evils attributed to universal suffrage are not inseparable from it, and, after all, it is doubtful if it elevates men of an inferior class to...
Σελίδα 122 - From these it will be seen that the characteristic peculiarities of the constitution are : 1. The mode of its formation. 2. The division of the supreme powers of government between the states in their united capacity and the states in their individual capacities.
Σελίδα 122 - In order to understand the true character of the Constitution of the United States, the error, not uncommon, must be avoided, of viewing it through the medium, either of a consolidated Government, or of a confederated Government, whilst it is neither the one nor the other ; but a mixture of both.