Alexander HamiltonDodd, Mead, 1890 - 281 Seiten |
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Seite 44 - Commentaries in America as in England. General Gage marks out this disposition very particularly in a letter on your table. He states that all the people in his government are lawyers, or smatterers in law, and that in Boston they have been enabled, by successful chicane, wholly to evade many parts of one of your capital penal constitutions.
Seite 187 - Senators present concur," the House of Representatives do not claim any agency In making treaties; but that when a treaty stipulates regulations on any of the subjects submitted by the Constitution to the power of Congress, It must depend for its execution, as to such stipulations, on a law or laws to be passed by Congress...
Seite 210 - Mine is an odd destiny. Perhaps no man in the United States has sacrificed or done more for the present Constitution than myself ; and contrary to all my anticipations of its fate, as you know from the very beginning. I am still laboring to prop the frail and worthless fabric. Yet I have the murmurs of its friends no less than the curses of its foes for my reward. What can I do better than withdraw from the scene ? Every day proves to me more and more, that this American world was not made for me.
Seite 119 - A national debt, if it is not excessive, will be to us a national blessing. It will be a powerful cement of our Union. It will also create a necessity for keeping up taxation to a degree which, without being oppressive, will be a spur to industry, remote as we are from Europe, and shall be from danger.
Seite 211 - Nothing is more fallacious than to expect to produce any valuable or permanent results, in political projects, by relying merely on the reason of men. Men are rather reasoning tha[n] reasonable animals for the most part governed by the impulse of passion.
Seite 109 - Abolition of the power of the Supreme Court to pass upon the constitutionality of legislation enacted by Congress. 6. The passage of the Socialist party's proposed Workers...
Seite 44 - This study renders men acute, inquisitive, dexterous, prompt in attack, ready in defence, full of resources. In other countries, the people, more simple and of a less mercurial cast, judge of an ill principle in government only by an actual grievance. Here they anticipate the evil, and judge of the pressure of the grievance by the badness of the principle. They augur misgovernment at a distance ; and snuff the approach of tyranny in every tainted breeze.
Seite 126 - This is its tendency to strengthen our infant government by increasing the number of ligaments between the government and the interests of individuals.
Seite 206 - A President is not bound to conform to the advice of his ministers. He is even under no positive injunction to ask or require it. But the Constitution presumes that he will consult them; and the genius of our government and the public good recommend the practice.
Seite 2 - But what has become of our dear father ? It is an age since I have heard from him or of him, though I have written him several letters. Perhaps, alas ! he is no more, and I shall not have the pleasing opportunity of contributing to render the close of his life more happy than the progress of it.