 The freemen of America did not wait till usurped power had strengthened itself by exercise and entangled the question in precedents. They saw all the consequences in the principle ; and they avoided the consequences by denying the principle. We revere...  Niles' National Register - Seite 2951817Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | Marvin E. Frankel - 1994 - 146 Seiten
...perspective, the Kiryas Joel district marked a step on a dangerous path. Madison again is our guide: "It is proper to take alarm at the first experiment on our liberties."16 8 MODESTY AND MUTUAL RESPECT WH r HAT can we hope it may profit us to have taken the... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson, James Madison - 1995 - 730 Seiten
...governed by laws made neither by themselves nor by an authority derived from them, and are slaves. 3. Because it is proper to take alarm at the first experiment...noblest characteristics of the late Revolution. The free men of America did not wait till usurped power had strengthened itself by exercise, and entangled... | |
 | Lance Banning - 1995 - 264 Seiten
...governed by laws made neither by themselves nor by an authority derived from them, and are slaves. 3. Because it is proper to take alarm at the first experiment...noblest characteristics of the late Revolution. The free men of America did not wait till usurped power had strengthened itself by exercise, and entangled... | |
 | John J. Patrick - 1995 - 312 Seiten
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 | John J. Patrick - 1995 - 334 Seiten
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 | J. F. Maclear - 1995 - 534 Seiten
...of them be suffered to overleap the great Barrier which defends the rights of the people. . . . 3. Because, it is proper to take alarm at the first experiment on our liberties. . . . Who does not see that the same authority which can establish Christianity, in exclusion of all... | |
 | Ronald F. Thiemann - 1996 - 208 Seiten
..."overleap the great Barrier which defends the rights of the people." The defense of those rights is "the first duty of citizens, and one of [the] noblest characteristics of the late Revolution." To allow public funds to be used to support the teaching of the Christian religion would deny the very... | |
 | Richard C. Sinopoli - 1996 - 456 Seiten
...governed by laws made neither by themselves nor by an authority derived from them, and are slaves. 3. Because it is proper to take alarm at the first experiment...late Revolution. The freemen of America did not wait till usurped power had strengthened itself by exercise and entangled the question in precedents. They... | |
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