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Стр. 258 - strength. If ever the free institutions of America are destroyed, that event may be attributed to the unlimited authority of the majority, which may at some future time urge the minorities to desperation, and oblige them to have recourse to physical force. Anarchy will then be the result, but it will have been brought about by despotism.
Стр. 190 - which might prevent, or which might at least impede, the promulgation of bad laws, adds : " It may perhaps be said that the power of preventing bad laws includes that of preventing good ones, and may be used to the one purpose as well as tc the other. But this
Стр. 35 - last trace of hereditary ranks and distinctions is destroyed-— the law of partition has reduced all to one level. I do not mean that there is any deficiency of wealthy individuals in the United States ; I know of no country, indeed, where the love of money has taken stronger hold on the
Стр. 138 - for which government was instituted, as of the true means by which the public happiness may be promoted. The republican principle demands that the deliberative sense of the community should govern the conduct of those to whom they intrust the
Стр. 299 - Unless this term be applied to the functions which many of them fill in the schools. Almost all education is intrusted to the clergy, t See the constitution of New York, art. 7, § 4 :— « And whereas, the ministers of the gospel are, by their profession dedicated to the service of God and the care of souls, and ought not to be
Стр. 37 - social state a most extraordinary phenomenon. Men are there seen on a greater equality in point of fortune and intellect, or in other words, more equal in their strength, than in any other country of the world, or, in any age of which history has preserved the remembrance.
Стр. 342 - The United States solemnly guaranty to the Cherokee nation all their lands not hereby ceded." The following article declared that if any citizen of the United States or other settler not of the Indian race, should establish himself upon the territory of the Cherokees, the United States would withdraw their protection from that individual, and
Стр. 25 - general acclamations the following fine definition of liberty :*— " Nor would I have you to mistake in the point of your own liberty. There is a liberty of corrupt nature, which is affected both by men and beasts to do what they list ; and this liberty is inconsistent with authority, impatient of all restraint ; by this liberty
Стр. 297 - The Americans combine the notions of Christianity and of liberty so intimately in their minds, that it is impossible to make them conceive the one without the other; and with them this conviction does not spring from that barren traditionary faith which seems to vegetate in the soul rather than
Стр. 85 - prove dangerous. Within these limits, the power vested in the American courts of justice of pronouncing a statute to be unconstitutional, forms one of the most powerful barriers which have ever been devised against the tyranny of political assemblies. OTHER POWERS GRANTED TO THE AMERICAN JUDGES.