John C. Calhoun: Selected Writings and SpeechesRegnery Pub., 2003 - 725 Seiten "Constitutions stand to governments, as laws do to individuals. As the object of laws is, to regulate and restrain the actions of individuals, so as to prevent one from oppressing or doing violence to another, so, in like manner, that of constitutions is, to regulate and restrain the actions of governments, so that those who exercise its powers, shall not oppress or do violence to the rest of the community." -John C. Calhoun, Selected Writings and Speeches |
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... separate governments of the States sustained to the body , which represented them in their confederated character , under the confederacy ; for this was essentially different from that which they now sustain to the government of the ...
... separate governments of the States sustained to the body , which represented them in their confederated character , under the confederacy ; for this was essentially different from that which they now sustain to the government of the ...
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... separate governments . The object was , to do that , by a common agent , which could not be as well done , or done at all , by their separate agencies . The relation , then , in which the States stand to the system , is that of the ...
... separate governments . The object was , to do that , by a common agent , which could not be as well done , or done at all , by their separate agencies . The relation , then , in which the States stand to the system , is that of the ...
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... separate classes of society . We have wisely exploded all such distinctions ; but we are not , on that account , exempt from all contrariety of interests , as the present distracted and dangerous condi- tion of our country ...
... separate classes of society . We have wisely exploded all such distinctions ; but we are not , on that account , exempt from all contrariety of interests , as the present distracted and dangerous condi- tion of our country ...
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A DISQUISITION ON GOVERNMENT | 1 |
A DISCOURSE ON THE CONSTITUTION AND GOVERNMENT | 61 |
SPEECH on the Report of the Foreign Relations | 223 |
Urheberrecht | |
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