 The provision of the Constitution giving the war-making power to Congress, was dictated, as I understand it, by the following reasons. Kings had always been involving and impoverishing their people in wars, pretending generally, if not always, that the...  Abraham Lincoln: The Prairie Years - Side 372av Carl Sandburg - 1926 - 962 siderUten tilgangsbegrensning - Om denne boken
 | William Henry Herndon, Jesse William Weik - 1889 - 288 sider
...to Congress,1' he insists, " was dictated, as I understand it, by the following reasons : kings had always been involving and impoverishing their people...the power of bringing this oppression upon us. But 283 your view destroys the whole matter, and places our President where kings have always stood." In... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - 1911 - 190 sider
...Congress was dictated, as I understand it, by the following reasons : Kings had always been invo.lv- s ing and impoverishing their people in wars, pretending...resolved to so frame the. Constitution that no one man 10 should hold the power of bringing this oppression upon us. But your view destroys the whole matter,... | |
 | William Estabrook Chancellor - 1912 - 618 sider
...home, he took the ground that Polk acted like a King, not like a President. "Kings," he wrote, "had always been involving and impoverishing their people...always, that the good of the people was the object." Lincoln made in Congress a rather more important figure than was usual even then for a member in his... | |
 | Rose Strunsky - 1914 - 392 sider
...power to Congress," he insists, " was dictated, as I understand it, by the following reasons: kings had always been involving and impoverishing their people...oppressive of all kingly oppressions; and they resolved so to frame the Constitution that no man should hold the power of bringing this oppression upon us.... | |
 | VICTOR L. BERGER - 1919 - 934 sider
...wnr-mnking power to Conpress was dictated, ns I understand it, by the following reasons: Kings nnd always been involving and impoverishing their people...be the most, oppressive of all kingly oppressions, und they resolved to so frame the Constitution that no man should hold the power of bringing this oppression... | |
 | Irving Bacheller - 1919 - 464 sider
...reasons: kings had always been involving and impoverishing their people in wars, pretending generally that the good of the people was the object. This our...most oppressive of all kingly oppressions and they proposed to so frame the constitution that no man should hold the power of bringing this oppression... | |
 | United States. Congress. House. Special Committee on Victor L. Berger Investigation - 1919 - 2212 sider
...war-making power to Conress was dictated, as I understand it, by the following reasons: Kings and «'wnys been involving and Impoverishing their people In wars,...always, that the good of the people was the object. This "iir Convention understood to he the most oppressive of all kingly oppressions, and they resolved to... | |
 | Clark Prescott Bissett - 1923 - 266 sider
...war-making power to Congress was dictated, as I understand it, by the following reasons: Kings had always been involving and impoverishing their people...they resolved to so frame the Constitution that no man should hold the power of bringing this oppression upon us. But your view, ie, ' that the President... | |
 | Rubin Gotesky, Ervin Laszlo - 1970 - 404 sider
...warmaking power to Congress, was dictated, as I understand it, by the following reasons. Kings had always been involving and impoverishing their people...oppressive of all Kingly oppressions; and they resolved so to frame the Constitution that no one man should hold the power of bringing this oppression upon... | |
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