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Historic Document · May 29, 2012
Democracy in America, Volume 1, Part A
Liberty of the Press in the United States Difficulty of restraining the liberty of the press — Particular reasons which some nations have to cherish this liberty — The liberty … cause which may at first sight appear to have a very opposite tendency, namely, to the liberty of the press. The nations amongst which this liberty exists
Historic Document · May 29, 2012
Proclamation Regarding Nullification
laws of that description may be abrogated by any State for that cause, then, indeed, is the federal Constitution unworthy of the slightest effort for its preservation. We have hitherto … have looked to it with sacred awe as the palladium of our liberties, and with all the solemnities of religion have pledged to each other our lives and fortunes here
Historic Document · May 29, 2012
To the Public
eyes of the nation, within sight of Bunker Hill and in the birthplace of liberty. That standard is now unfurled; and long may it float, unhurt by the spoliation … array myself as the political partisan of any man. In defending the great cause of human rights, I wish to derive the assistance of all religions and of all parties
Historic Document · May 29, 2012
Andrew Jackson’s Message to Congress ‘On Indian Removal’
institutions; will retard the progress of decay, which is lessening their numbers, and perhaps cause them gradually, under the protection of the Government and through the influence of good counsels … more than 12,000,000 happy people, and filled with all the blessings of liberty, civilization and religion? The present policy of the Government is but a continuation
Historic Document · May 29, 2012
Address on U.S. Foreign Policy
them, though often to heedless and often to disdainful ears, the language of equal liberty, of equal justice, and of equal rights. She has, in the lapse of nearly half … champion and vindicator only of her own. She will commend the general cause by the countenance of her voice, and the benignant sympathy of her example. She well knows that
Historic Document · May 29, 2012
McCulloch v. Maryland
plain usurpation, to which the constitution gave no countenance. These observations belong to the cause; but they are not made under the impression that, were the question entirely … more perfect union, establish justice, ensure domestic tranquility, and secure the blessings of liberty to themselves and to their posterity.” The assent of the States, in their sovereign capacity
Historic Document · May 29, 2012
Sleep not longer, O Choctaws and Chickasaws
annihilation of our race is at hand unless we unite in one common cause against the common foe. Think not, brave Choctaws and Chickasaws, that you can remain passive … being stripped day by day of the little that remains of our ancient liberty? Do they not even kick and strike us as they do their blackfaces? How long will
Historic Document · May 29, 2012
The Treaty of Greenville
restored. The Indians, prisoners to the United States, shall be immediately set at liberty. The people of the United States, still remaining prisoners among the Indians, shall be delivered … these lands, or any part of them, shall never hereafter be made a cause or pretence, on the part of the said tribes, or any of them
Historic Document · May 29, 2012
Constitution of the Confederate States of America
permanent federal government, establish justice, insure domestic tranquillity, and secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity-invoking the favor and guidance of Almighty God-do ordain … seizures, shall not be violated; and no warrants shall issue but upon probable cause, supported by oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched and the persons
Historic Document · May 29, 2012
Abortion and the Conscience of the Nation
Bingham of Ohio drafted the Fourteenth Amendment to guarantee the rights of life, liberty, and property to all human beings, he explained that all are “entitled to the protection … dedicated to the preservation of America as a free land, and there is no cause more important for preserving that freedom than affirming the transcendent right to life
Historic Document · May 29, 2012
Winston Churchill’s ‘Iron Curtain’ Speech
ordinary people - namely, tyranny. We cannot be blind to the fact that the liberties enjoyed by individual citizens throughout the British Empire are not valid in a considerable number … secure ourselves and able to work together for the high and simple causes that are dear to us and bode no ill to any. Eventually there may come - I feel
Historic Document · May 29, 2012
Cross of Gold
speak to you in defense of a cause as holy as the cause of liberty--the cause of humanity. .... Never before in the history of this country has there been
Historic Document · May 29, 2012
The Gettysburg Address
years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation, conceived in liberty and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal. Now we are engaged … remaining before us --that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion-- that we here highly resolve
Historic Document · May 29, 2012
2nd Innaugural Address
unequal struggle there has been no act on our part to impair personal liberty or the freedom of speech, of thought, or of the press. The courts have been open … arms to renew such sacrifices as our fathers made to the holy cause of constitutional liberty. At the darkest hour of our struggle the Provisional gives place to the Permanent
Historic Document · May 29, 2012
1st Innaugural Address
shall not find in me either a want of zeal or fidelity to the cause that is to me highest in hope and of most enduring affection. Your generosity … made are not weighed in the balance against honor, and right, and liberty, and equality. Obstacles may retard - they cannot long prevent - the progress of a movement sanctified
Historic Document · May 29, 2012
A Declaration of the Causes which Impel the State of Texas to Secede from the Federal Union
The government of the United States, by certain joint resolutions, bearing date
Historic Document · May 29, 2012
Georgia Secession
separation. For the last ten years we have had numerous and serious causes of complaint against our non-slave-holding confederate States with reference to the subject of African slavery … Government of the United States, and henceforth will seek new safeguards for our liberty, equality, security, and tranquillity
Historic Document · May 29, 2012
South Carolina Declaration of Secession
America, and to the nations of the world, that she should declare the immediate causes which have led to this act. In the year 1765, that portion of the British … provide for the common defence, promote the general welfare, and secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity.” These ends it endeavored to accomplish by a Federal Government
Historic Document · May 29, 2012
On the Duty of Civil Disobedience
Massachusetts to be extended to me in some distant Southern port, where my liberty is endangered, or until I am bent solely on building up an estate at home … Associations formed elsewhere, springing from a feeling of humanity, or any other cause, have nothing whatever to do with it. They have never received any encouragement from me and they
Historic Document · May 29, 2012
Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
Government of the said United States will exact the release of such captives and cause them to be restored to their country. ARTICLE V The boundary line between … mean time, shall be maintained and protected in the free enjoyment of their liberty and property, and secured in the free exercise of their religion without; restriction. ARTICLE X [Stricken