 | Walter Barlow Stevens - 1921 - 1072 σελίδες
...from a candid apprehension that the enlargement of our territory would endanger our Union. But can you limit the extent to which the federative principle...we be most likely to live in harmony and friendly intercourse?" — Jefferson's Second Inaugural Address, 1805. "The treaty which has so happily sealed... | |
 | Walter Barlow Stevens - 1921 - 1152 σελίδες
...from a candid apprehension that the enlargement of our territory would endanger our Union. But can you limit the extent to which the federative principle...family? With which shall we be most likely to live r' in harmony and friendly intercourse?" — Jefferson's Second Inaugural Address, 1805. "The treaty... | |
 | Vernon Louis Parrington - 1926 - 584 σελίδες
...and in any view is it not better that the opposite bank of the Mississippi should be settled 'by our brethren and children, than by strangers of another...we be most likely to live in harmony and friendly intercourse? "The Aboriginal inhabitants of these countries, I have regarded with the commiseration... | |
 | Vernon Louis Parrington - 1926 - 584 σελίδες
...some, from a candid apprehension that the enlargement of our territory may endanger its union. "But who can limit the extent to which the federative principle...operate effectively? The larger our association the less it will be shaken by local passions; and in any view is it not better that the opposite bank of the... | |
 | 1788 - 568 σελίδες
...might be born beyond the Mississippi. But in his second inaugural (March 4, 1805) he exclaimed: "But who can limit the extent to which the federative principle...any view, is it not better that the opposite bank of th« Mississippi should be settled by our own brethren and children than by strangers of another family?... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson - 1970 - 420 σελίδες
...combinations depend on so many circumstances which we cannot foresee that I place little reliance on them.10 Who can limit the extent to which the federative principle...and children than by strangers of another family? " Federalist grumblers; our foreign policy These grumblers, too, are very uneasy lest the administration... | |
 | Peter S. Onuf - 1993 - 500 σελίδες
...expanding empire of liberty over a huge continent posed no problems for his relaxed idea of a state. "Who can limit the extent to which the federative principle may operate effectively?" he asked in his second inaugural address. In fact, Jefferson always conceived of his "empire of liberty"... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson - 1999 - 676 σελίδες
...some, from a candid apprehension that the enlargement of our territory would endanger its union. But who can limit the extent to which the federative principle...we be most likely to live in harmony and friendly intercourse? In matters of religion, I have considered that its free exercise is placed by the constitution... | |
 | Owen Collins - 1999 - 464 σελίδες
...some from a candid apprehension that the enlargement of our territory would endanger its union. But who can limit the extent to which the federative principle...children than by strangers of another family? With which should we be most likely to live in harmony and friendly intercourse? In matters of religion I have... | |
 | Peter S. Onuf - 2000 - 276 σελίδες
..."just powers from the consent of the governed," would show that the empire of liberty was illimitable.1 "Who can limit the extent to which the federative principle may operate effectively?" an exultant Jefferson asked in his Second Inaugural Address (4 March 1805). 2 The British empire had... | |
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I know that the acquisition of Louisiana has been disapproved by some, from a candid apprehension that the enlargement of our territory would endanger its union. But who can limit the extent to which the federative principle may operate effectively? The... 
