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Historic Document · May 29, 2012
1864 Republican Platform
country and its free institutions. 3. Resolved, That as slavery was the cause, and now constitutes the strength of this Rebellion, and as it must be, always and everywhere, hostile … unselfish patriotism and the unswerving fidelity to the Constitution and the principles of American liberty, with which ABRAHAM LINCOLN has discharged, under circumstances of unparalleled difficulty, the great duties
Historic Document · May 29, 2012
1860 Republican Platform
necessity of the organization and perpetuation of the Republican party, and that the causes which called it into existence are permanent in their nature, and now, more than ever before … endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness; that to secure these rights, governments are instituted among men, deriving
Historic Document · May 29, 2012
Thoughts on the Present State of American Affairs
will be remembered by future generations with detestation. The sun never shined on a cause of greater worth. ’Tis not the affair of a city, a country, a province … world hath been the asylum for the persecuted lovers of civil and religious liberty from EVERY PART of Europe. Hither have they fled, not from the tender embraces
Historic Document · May 29, 2012
Of the Origin and Design of Government in General, with Concise Remarks on the English Consitution
first peopling of any country, or of the world. In this state of natural liberty, society will be their first thought. A thousand motives will excite them thereto, the strength … they surmount the first difficulties of emigration, which bound them together in a common cause, they will begin to relax in their duty and attachment to each other; and this
Historic Document · May 29, 2012
Of the Dissolution of Government
have a persuation, grounded upon manifest evidence, that designs are carrying on against their liberties, and the general course and tendency of things cannot but give them strong suspicions … least for a sufficient cause of resistance . And the reason of all, he gives in these words, Because he betrayed or forced his people, whose liberty he ought carefully
Historic Document · May 29, 2012
Of Conquest
open to all that appeal to her. He that troubles his neighbour without a cause, is punished for it by the justice of the court he appeals … being more land than the inhabitants possess and make use of, any one has liberty to make use of the waste: but there conquerors take little care to possess themselves
Historic Document · May 29, 2012
Of Prerogative
have no appeal on earth, then they have a liberty to appeal to heaven, whenever they judge the cause of sufficient moment. And therefore, though the people cannot be judge … where there lies no appeal on earth, viz . to judge, whether they have just cause to make their appeal to heaven. And this judgment they cannot part with, it being
Historic Document · May 29, 2012
Of the Subordination of the Powers of the Commonwealth
foolish, or so wicked, as to lay and carry on designs against the liberties and properties of the subject: for no man or society of men, having a power … have a power still to resume it out of those hands, when they find cause, and to punish for any maladministration against the laws. The same holds also in regard
Historic Document · May 29, 2012
Of the Beginning of Political Societies
contenders for paternal empire were better let it alone, than urge it against natural liberty: for if they can give so many instances, out of history, of governments begun upon … great force) one might, without any great danger, yield them the cause. But if I might advise them in the case, they would do well not to search too much
Historic Document · May 29, 2012
Of Political or Civil Society
under the restraint of laws, but that he should still retain all the liberty of the state of nature, increased with power, and made licentious by impunity. This … have cured. They saw, that to live by one man’s will, became the cause of all men’s misery . This constrained them to come unto laws, wherein
Historic Document · May 29, 2012
Of Paternal Power
generation lays on children, it must certainly bind them equal to both the concurrent causes of it. And accordingly we see the positive law of God every where joins them … beings capable of laws, where there is no law, there is no freedom . For liberty is to be free from restraint and violence from others; which cannot be, where there
Historic Document · May 29, 2012
Of the State of Nature
impair the life, or what tends to the preservation of the life, the liberty, health, limb, or goods of another. Sect. 7. And that all men may be restrained from … will suffice to make it an ill bargain to the offender, give him cause to repent, and terrify others from doing the like. Every offence, that can be committed
Historic Document · May 29, 2012
The Judiciary Continued in Relation to Trial by Jury
juries, the legislature would be at liberty either to adopt that institution or to let it alone. This discretion, in regard to criminal causes, is abridged by the express injunction … pretense, therefore, that the national legislature would not be at full liberty to submit all the civil causes of federal cognizance to the determination of juries, is a pretense destitute
Historic Document · May 29, 2012
The Same Subject Continued, and Re-Eligibility of the Executive Considered
President to promote a change of men to fill the subordinate stations; and these causes together could not fail to occasion a disgraceful and ruinous mutability in the administration … people, seconding the thwarted ambition of such a favorite, might occasion greater danger to liberty, than could ever reasonably be dreaded from the possibility of a perpetuation in office
Historic Document · May 29, 2012
The Executive Department Further Considered
handed combinations which sometimes interrupt the ordinary course of justice; to the security of liberty against the enterprises and assaults of ambition, of faction, and of anarchy. Every … purely to the dictates of reason and good sense, we shall discover much greater cause to reject than to approve the idea of plurality in the Executive, under any modification
Historic Document · May 29, 2012
The Real Character of the Executive
greater temptation to undertake and persevere in an enterprise against the public liberty, than the mere prospect of an exemption from death and confiscation, if the final execution … obligatory efficacy of the treaty. But this parliamentary interposition proceeds from a different cause: from the necessity of adjusting a most artificial and intricate system of revenue and commercial laws
Historic Document · May 29, 2012
The Senate Continued
will not only be forfeited by an unenlightened and variable policy, proceeding from the causes already mentioned, but the national councils will not possess that sensibility to the opinion … contained so provident a safeguard against the tyranny of their own passions? Popular liberty might then have escaped the indelible reproach of decreeing to the same citizens the hemlock
Historic Document · May 29, 2012
The Alleged Tendency of the New Plan to Elevate the Few at the Expense of the Many Considered in Connection with Representation
genuine and the characteristic means by which republican government provides for the liberty and happiness of the people? Are they not the identical means on which every State government … proportion of one for every thirty thousand inhabitants. Besides a variety of powerful causes not existing here, and which favor in that country the pretensions of rank and wealth
Historic Document · May 29, 2012
The Total Number of the House of Representatives
sincere friends of liberty, who give themselves up to the extravagancies of this passion, are not aware of the injury they do their own cause. As there is a degree
Historic Document · May 29, 2012
The Same Subject Continued (The House of Representatives)
share of rational liberty, than South Carolina; or that either the one or the other of these States is distinguished in these respects, and by these causes, from the States … government. Even in Great Britain, where the principles of political and civil liberty have been most discussed, and where we hear most of the rights of the Constitution