Great Debates in American History: Economic and social questions, part 1Marion Mills Miller Current Literature Publishing Company, 1913 - Civil rights |
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... become unduly strong , or that they might waste its resources instead of utilizing them , did not enter our minds for many years afterward . A few clear - sighted men saw signs of danger before the Civil War , but it was not until the ...
... become unduly strong , or that they might waste its resources instead of utilizing them , did not enter our minds for many years afterward . A few clear - sighted men saw signs of danger before the Civil War , but it was not until the ...
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... becoming matters of public concern . The railroad problem of 1880 and the trust problem of 1910 were not two different questions . They were two different phases of the same question . All this adds enormously to the interest of a ...
... becoming matters of public concern . The railroad problem of 1880 and the trust problem of 1910 were not two different questions . They were two different phases of the same question . All this adds enormously to the interest of a ...
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... become poor through misfortune ; and , to all , the change of condition from tenant to freeholder is the most difficult part of their lives . Let the Federal Government make that change for them . It can do it for hundreds of thousands ...
... become poor through misfortune ; and , to all , the change of condition from tenant to freeholder is the most difficult part of their lives . Let the Federal Government make that change for them . It can do it for hundreds of thousands ...
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... becomes productive . To require them to pay beyond that for the land amounts to prohibition against their going there . The preemption system stimulated emigra- tion and settlement ; but experience has shown that inability to pay the ...
... becomes productive . To require them to pay beyond that for the land amounts to prohibition against their going there . The preemption system stimulated emigra- tion and settlement ; but experience has shown that inability to pay the ...
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... become ornaments to so- ciety , the bulwark of government , and finally take their places , with the patriarchs of old , in a world of happified and glorified spirits ? Pass this bill , and by the close of the present generation the ...
... become ornaments to so- ciety , the bulwark of government , and finally take their places , with the patriarchs of old , in a world of happified and glorified spirits ? Pass this bill , and by the close of the present generation the ...
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Page 201 - Commerce, undoubtedly, is traffic, but it is something more ; it is intercourse/^ It describes the commercial intercourse between nations, and parts of nations, in all its branches, and is regulated by prescribing rules for carrying on that intercourse.
Page 109 - I" means the States of Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, Rhode Island, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Maryland, Delaware, West Virginia, Virginia. North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, and the District of Columbia. (c) "Districts II-IV" means all of the States of the United States except those States within district I and district V.
Page 142 - June next, after deducting all expenses incident to the same, shall be applied to the laying out and making public roads, leading from the navigable waters emptying into the Atlantic, to the Ohio, to the said State, and through the same, such roads to be laid out under the authority of Congress, with the consent of the several States through which the road shall pass...
Page 443 - A railroad is a public highway, and none the less so because constructed and maintained through the agency of a corporation deriving its existence and powers from the State. Such a corporation was created for public purposes. It performs a function of the State.
Page 207 - Constitution and the laws made in pursuance thereof are the supreme law of the land...
Page 208 - It is obviously impracticable in the federal government of these states, to secure all rights of independent sovereignty to each, and yet provide for the interest and safety of all. Individuals entering into society, must give up a share of liberty to preserve the rest.
Page 80 - ... all men are created equal; and are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights; and that among these are, life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness...
Page 127 - Their patriotism would certainly prefer its continuance and application to the great purposes of the public education, roads, rivers, canals, and such other objects of public improvement as it may be thought proper to add to the constitutional enumeration of Federal powers.
Page 50 - The result is a conviction that the states have no power, by taxation or otherwise, to retard, impede, burden, or in any manner control the operations of the constitutional laws enacted by Congress to carry into execution the powers vested in the general government.
Page 50 - That the power to tax involves the power to destroy ; that the power to destroy may defeat and render useless the power to create ; that there is a plain repugnance in conferring on one government a power to control the constitutional measures of another, which other, with respect to those very measures, is declared to be supreme over that which exerts the control, are propositions not to be denied.