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- Historic Document · May 29, 2012The Same Subject Continued (The Union as a Safeguard Against Domestic Faction and Insurrection)
would be to wish the annihilation of air, which is essential to animal life, because it imparts to fire its destructive agency. The second expedient is as impracticable … will be unable to execute and mask its violence under the forms of the Constitution. When a majority is included in a faction, the form of popular government
- Historic Document · May 29, 2012The Consequences of Hostilities Between the States
liberty will, after a time, give way to its dictates. The violent destruction of life and property incident to war, the continual effort and alarm attendant on a state … military establishments. Standing armies, it is said, are not provided against in the new Constitution; and it is therefore inferred that they may exist under it.(1) Their existence, however
- Historic Document · May 29, 2012The Four Freedoms
During sixteen long months this assault has blotted out the whole pattern of democratic life in an appalling number of independent nations, great and small. The assailants are still … committed to full support of all those resolute peoples, everywhere, who are resisting aggression and are thereby keeping war away from our Hemisphere. By this support, we express our determination
- Historic Document · May 29, 2012FDR Executive Order 8802: Prohibition of Discrimination in the Defense Industry
firm belief that the democratic way of life within the Nation can be defended successfully only with the help and support of all groups within its borders; and WHEREAS there … national unity: NOW, THEREFORE, by virtue of the authority vested in me by the Constitution and the statutes, and as a prerequisite to the successful conduct of our national defense
- Historic Document · May 29, 2012Social Security Act
life as old-age benefit. (c) If the Board finds that the total amount paid to a qualified individual under an old-age benefit during his life was less than … estate. OVERPAYMENTS DURING LIFE SEC. 206. If the Board finds that the total amount paid to a qualified individual under an old-age benefit during his life was more than
- Historic Document · May 29, 2012Tennessee Valley Authority Act
duties of his office, shall subscribe to an oath (or affirmation) to support the Constitution of the United States and to faithfully and impartially perform the duties imposed upon … said dam in the hands of such engineer or engineers taken from private life as he may desire: And provided further, That the President is hereby expressly authorized, without regard
- Historic Document · May 29, 2012Address to Congress Leading to a Declaration of War Against Germany
grave responsibilities which it involves, but in unhesitating obedience to what I deem my constitutional duty, I advise that the Congress declare the recent course of the Imperial German Government … then, is to vindicate the principles of peace and justice in the life of the world as against selfish and autocratic power and to set up amongst the really free
- Historic Document · May 29, 2012Free Speech in Wartime
court could administer the law fairly; but I have a conviction, as strong as life, that this country should stand them up against an adobe wall tomorrow and give them … guilty — treason and disloyalty — and, sir, accused not only with no evidence to support the accusation, but without the suggestion that such evidence anywhere exists. It is not claimed that
- Historic Document · May 29, 2012Democracy and Foreign Policy
shall risk the loss of enduring public support for our policies. I think history illustrates amply that the American people will not support for long a policy that violates their … were as clean — as free and fair — as possible. Congress supported the President’s request for money to support election activities, which enabled us to flood Nicaragua with international observers
- Historic Document · May 29, 2012Texas v. Johnson
expressive conduct. The State’s interest in preventing breaches of the peace does not support his conviction because Johnson’s conduct did not threaten to disturb the peace. Nor does … flag burning did not violate the Constitution. See id., at 610 (Black, J., dissenting) (“It passes my belief that anything in the Federal Constitution bars a State from making
- Historic Document · May 29, 2012The Evil Empire
tyrants.” Explaining the inalienable rights of men, Jefferson said, “The God who gave us life, gave us liberty at the same time.” And it was George Washington who said that … human life, that the philosophical premises used to justify abortion on demand would ultimately be used to justify other attacks on the sacredness of human life — infanticide or mercy killing
- Historic Document · May 29, 2012Ronald Reagan’s First Inaugural Address
commonplace occurrence. The orderly transfer of authority as called for in the Constitution routinely takes place as it has for almost two centuries and few of us stop to think … whose taxes support the Government and whose voluntary gifts support church, charity, culture, art, and education. Their patriotism is quiet but deep. Their values sustain our national life. I have
- Historic Document · May 29, 2012“Vietnamization”
shot to death, and buried in mass graves. -With the sudden collapse of our support, these atrocities of Hue would become the nightmare of the entire nation — and particularly … turned to the great challenges of peace, a better life for all Americans, a better life for all people on this earth. I have chosen a plan for peace
- Historic Document · May 29, 2012Miranda v. Arizona
other countries, it is embodied in a written Constitution. Considering the liberties the Court has today taken with constitutional history and precedent, few will find this emphasis persuasive. In closing … then existing state constitutions or in state practice which would give the constitutional provision any broader meaning. Mayers, The Federal Witness’ Privilege Against Self-Incrimination: Constitutional or Common
- Historic Document · May 29, 2012Statement on the Cuban Missile Crisis
entire Western Hemisphere, and under the authority entrusted to me by the Constitution as endorsed by the resolution of the Congress, I have directed that the following initial steps … cargo and carriers. We are not at this time, however, denying the necessities of life as the Soviets attempted to do in their Berlin blockade of 1948. Second: I have
- Historic Document · May 29, 2012John F. Kennedy Appeals to the Congress for a Tax Cut
companies, following the pattern of similar treatment of stock and mutual enterprise in the life insurance field. Some of the most important types of private savings and lending institutions … additional personnel, or less than one-half of the number requested, this Administration would constitute little more than the additional employees needed each year during the 1960’s just
- Historic Document · May 29, 2012The Morrill Act
upon the par value of said stocks; and that the moneys so invested shall constitute a perpetual fund, the capital of which shall remain forever undiminished, (except … State which may take and claim the benefit of this act, to the endowment, support, and maintenance of at least one college where the leading object shall be, without excluding
- Historic Document · May 29, 2012The New Nationalism
voice on the bench, or to representation in any public office. The Constitution guarantees protection to property, and we must make that promise good. But it does not give … over public service corporations should be extended also to combinations which control necessaries of life, such as meat, oil, and coal, or which deal in them on an important scale
- Historic Document · May 29, 2012On the Adoption of the Constitution
government in motion, you establish a controlling power. Thus, whatever constitutional provisions are made to the contrary, every government will be at last driven to the necessity of subjecting … confidence and support. The States can never lose their powers till the whole people of America are robbed of their liberties. These must go together; they must support each other
- Historic Document · May 29, 2012Charter Of Massachusetts Bay
upon, cannot but chiefly depend, next under the blessing of Almighty God, and the support of our royal authority upon the good government of the same, to the end that … deed, fact, and name; We do for us, our heirs and successors, make, ordain, constitute, and confirm by these presents, and that by that name they shall have perpetual succession