Political Sketches of Eight Years in Washington: In Four Parts, with Annotations to Each ; Also a General Appendix ; an Alphabetical Index ; and a Series of Charts, Giving a Comparative Synopsis of the Constitutions of the Several States, and the United States, Del 1

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F. Lucas, 1839 - 216 sider
This book discusses the political climate of the United States during Andrew Jackson's presidency, with special emphasis placed on his diplomacy and foreign relations.

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Side 85 - The President is the sole organ of the nation in its external relations, and its sole representative with foreign nations.
Side 59 - ... forced themselves too strongly on my mind to be suppressed. You will join with me, I trust, in thinking that there are none under the influence of which the proceedings of a new and free government can more auspiciously commence. By the article establishing the executive department it is made the duty of the President " to recommend to your consideration such measures as he shall judge necessary and expedient.
Side 91 - Red river; then following the course of the Rio Roxo westward, to the degree of longitude, 100 west from London, and 23 from Washington; then crossing the said Red river, and running thence...
Side 59 - It will be more consistent with those circumstances, and far more congenial with the feelings which actuate me, to substitute, in place of a recommendation of particular measures, the tribute that is due to the talents, the rectitude, and the patriotism which adorn the characters selected to devise and adopt them.
Side 196 - The United States shall guaranty to every State in this Union a republican form of government, and shall protect each of them against invasion, and on application of the legislature, or of the executive, (when the legislature cannot be convened,) against domestic violence.
Side 71 - All too will bear in mind this sacred principle, that though the will of the majority is in all cases to prevail, that will, to be rightful, must be reasonable ; that the minority possess their equal rights, which equal law must protect, and to violate would be oppression.
Side 67 - The recent demonstration of public sentiment inscribes on the list of executive duties, in characters too legible to be overlooked, the task of reform, which will require particularly the correction of those abuses that have brought the patronage of the federal government into conflict with the freedom of elections...
Side 61 - A rising nation, spread over a wide and fruitful land, traversing all the seas with the rich productions of their industry, engaged in commerce with nations who feel power and forget right, advancing rapidly to destinies beyond the reach of mortal eye...
Side 78 - Their views upon that point have been submitted to the people of the United States ; and the counsels by which your conduct Is now directed are the result of the judgment expressed by the only earthly tribunal to which the late administration was amenable for its acts.
Side 76 - Both the constitutionality and the expediency of the law creating this bank are well questioned by a large portion of our fellow-citizens, and it must be admitted by all that it has failed in the great end of establishing a uniform and sound currency.

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