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Historic Document · May 29, 2012
1956 Republican Platform
consistent with national security. We believe that working for the Government is not a right but a privilege. Based on that principle we will continue a security program to make … strengthen State and local government. We shall continue to dispense with Federal activities wrongfully competing with private enterprise, and take other sound measures to reduce the cost of Government. Governmental
Historic Document · May 29, 2012
1928 Republican Platform
retirement privileges, and we commend what has been done, as a step in the right direction. Agriculture The agricultural problem is national in scope and, as such, is recognized … matter of satisfaction that the desire to help in the correction of agricultural wrongs and conditions is not confined to any one section of our country or any particular group
Historic Document · May 29, 2012
1924 Republican Platform
into business. American industry should not be compelled to struggle against government competition. The right of the government to regulate, supervise and control public utilities and public interests, we believe … forbidden by law. We demand the speedy, fearless and impartial prosecution of all wrong doers, without regard for political affiliations; but we dee]are no greater wrong can be committed
Historic Document · May 29, 2012
1920 Republican Platform
people, and to cast its influence on the side of justice and right should occasion require. (a) Mexico The ineffective policy of the present Administration in Mexican matters has been … guarantees that the lives and property of American citizens are respected and protected; that wrongs will be promptly corrected and just compensation will be made for injury sustained. The Republican
Historic Document · May 29, 2012
1908 Republican Platform
duty and obligation. Conscience and courage in public station and higher standards of right and wrong in private life have become cardinal principles of political faith; capital and labor have … interstate commerce law should be further amended so as to give railroads the right to make and publish tariff agreements, subject to the approval of the Commission, but maintaining always
Historic Document · May 29, 2012
1900 Republican Platform
competing country. Enjoying the blessings of the American common school, secure in the right of self-government and protected in the occupancy of their own markets, their constantly increasing knowledge … American Government must protect the person and property of every citizen wherever they are wrongfully violated or placed in peril. We congratulate the women of America upon their splendid record
Historic Document · May 29, 2012
Introduction
general favor; a long habit of not thinking a thing WRONG, gives it a superficial appearance of being RIGHT, and raises at first a formidable outcry in defence of custom
Historic Document · May 29, 2012
Of the Dissolution of Government
please, the same will happen. The people generally ill treated , and contrary to right, will be ready upon any occasion to ease themselves of a burden that sits heavy upon … upon every little mismanagement in public affairs. Great mistakes in the ruling part, many wrong and inconvenient laws, and all the slips of human frailty, will be born
Historic Document · May 29, 2012
Of Tyranny
education, employment, and counsellors, to be more knowing in the measures of right and wrong. Sect. 203. May the commands then of a prince be opposed ? May he be resisted … often as any one shall find himself aggrieved, and but imagine he has not right done him? This will unhinge and overturn all polities, and, instead of government and order
Historic Document · May 29, 2012
Of Prerogative
other but a right use of it, that is, for the good of their people. Sect. 163. And therefore they have a very wrong notion of government, who say, that … doing they have not pulled from the prince any thing that of right belonged to him, but only declared, that that power which they indefinitely left
Historic Document · May 29, 2012
Of the Ends of Political Society and Government
known law , received and allowed by common consent to be the standard of right and wrong, and the common measure to decide all controversies between them: for though … state of nature there often wants power to back and support the sentence when right, and to give it due execution , They who by any injustice offended, will seldom fail
Historic Document · May 29, 2012
Of Political or Civil Society
rational creatures, is denied a liberty to judge of, or to defend his right; and so is exposed to all the misery and inconveniencies, that a man can fear from … above all such circumstances; because he has power to do more hurt and wrong, it is right when he does it. To ask how you may be guarded from harm
Historic Document · May 29, 2012
Of the State of War
right to the innocent party to destroy the other whenever he can, until the aggressor offers peace, and desires reconciliation on such terms as may repair any wrongs … done, war is made upon the sufferers, who having no appeal on earth to right them, they are left to the only remedy in such cases, an appeal to heaven
Historic Document · May 29, 2012
The Judiciary Continued in Relation to Trial by Jury
commit the trial of criminal causes to juries, is a privation of its right to authorize or permit that mode of trial in other cases? Is it natural to suppose … necessary to corrupt both court and jury; for where the jury have gone evidently wrong, the court will generally grant a new trial, and it would be in most cases
Historic Document · May 29, 2012
Method of Guarding Against the Encroachments of Any One Department of Government by Appealing to the People Through a Convention
exclusive or superior right of settling the boundaries between their respective powers; and how are the encroachments of the stronger to be prevented, or the wrongs of the weaker … among the people, and that they are more immediately the confidential guardians of the rights and liberties of the people. With these advantages, it can hardly be supposed that
Historic Document · May 29, 2012
The Same Subject Continued (Concerning Dangers From Foreign Force and Influence)
hand, they find us either destitute of an effectual government (each State doing right or wrong, as to its rulers may seem convenient), or split into three or four independent
Historic Document · May 29, 2012
The Same Subject Continued (Concerning Dangers From Foreign Force and Influence)
first discussed. Let us therefore proceed to examine whether the people are not right in their opinion that a cordial Union, under an efficient national government, affords them the best … being affected by those local circumstances, will neither be induced to commit the wrong themselves, nor want power or inclination to prevent or punish its commission by others
Historic Document · May 29, 2012
General Introduction
upon many occasions, see wise and good men on the wrong as well as on the right side of questions of the first magnitude to society. This circumstance, if duly
Historic Document · May 29, 2012
Tennessee Valley Authority Act
purpose of manufacturing explosives or for other war purposes; but, if this right is exercised by the Government, it shall pay the reasonable and fair damages that may be suffered … conspiracy, collusion, or agreement, express or implied, with intent to defraud the Corporation or wrongfully and unlawfully to defeat its purposes, shall, on conviction thereof, be fined not more than
Historic Document · May 29, 2012
Woodrow Wilson’s 14 Points
wrong done to France by Prussia in 1871 in the matter of Alsace-Lorraine, which has unsettled the peace of the world for nearly fifty years, should be righted … great and small states alike. In regard to these essential rectifications of wrong and assertions of right we feel ourselves to be intimate partners of all the governments and peoples