 | Steven W. Usselman - 2002 - 422 σελίδες
...reasons," Lincoln wrote. "Kings had always been involving and impoverishing their nation's peoples in wars, pretending generally, if not always, that...oppressive of all Kingly oppressions; and they resolved to frame the Constitution so that no one man should hold the power of bringing this oppression upon us."10... | |
 | Noam Chomsky - 2003 - 500 σελίδες
..."precipitated the clash which began the Mexican War": "Kings had always been involving and impoverishing their people in wars, pretending generally, if not...of the people was the object. This our Convention undertook to be the most oppressive of all kingly oppressions; and they resolved to so frame the Constitution... | |
 | Alexander DeConde - 2000 - 404 σελίδες
...pleasure." he wrote. "Kings had always been involving and impoverishing their people in wars," he added, "pretending generally, if not always, that the good of the people was the object." Here, though, "no one man should hold the power of bringing this oppression upon us."34 Despite this... | |
 | Robert C. Byrd - 2004 - 278 σελίδες
...dictated, as I understand it, by the following reasons. Kings had always been involving and impoverishing their people in wars, pretending generally, if not...matter, and places our President where kings have always stood. The doctrine of preemption claimed by Bush should have incited a major debate in the Congress... | |
 | Geoffrey R. Stone - 2004 - 758 σελίδες
...dictated, as I understand it, by the following reasons: kings had always been involving and impoverishing their people in wars, pretending generally, if not...oppressive of all kingly oppressions, and they resolved to frame the Constitution that no one man should hold the power of bringing this oppression upon us. But... | |
 | Thomas Campbell - 2004 - 248 σελίδες
...student of the history of the founders observed: "Kings had always been involving and impoverishing their people in wars, pretending generally, if not...that the good of the people was the object. This our [constitutional] convention understood to be the most oppressive of all kingly oppressions; and they... | |
 | Neal Devins, Louis Fisher - 2004 - 320 σελίδες
...to say he deems it necessary for such purpose — and you allow him to make war at pleasure. . . . This, our Convention understood to be the most oppressive of all Kingly oppressions; and Lincoln's decision to censure Polk may appear to be hypocritical, for during his own years as President... | |
 | Arthur Meier Schlesinger - 2004 - 184 σελίδες
...so he believed, by President James K. Polk. The founding fathers at Philadelphia, Lincoln said, had "resolved to so frame the Constitution that no one man should hold power of bringing this oppression [war] upon us." Similarly Roosevelt in 1940, promising supplies to... | |
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The provision of the Constitution giving the warmaking power to Congress was dictated, as I understand it, by the following reasons: Kings had always been involving and impoverishing their people in wars, pretending generally, if not always, that the... 
