The Centennial of a Revolution: An Address by a RevolutionistPutnam, 1888 - 171 pagina's |
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Pagina 155 - That the maintenance inviolate of the rights of the States, and especially the right of each State to order and control its own domestic institutions according to its own judgment exclusively...
Pagina 44 - Where, then, did each state get the sovereignty, freedom, and independence which the Articles of Confederation declare it retains? — not from the whole people of the whole Union — not from the Declaration of Independence — not from the people of the state itself. It was assumed by agreement between the legislatures of the several states, and their delegates in Congress, without authority from or consultation of the people at all.
Pagina 50 - A Constitution for the people, and the distribution of legislative, executive, and judicial powers, was prepared. It announced itself as the work of the people themselves ; and as this was unquestionably a power assumed by the Convention, not delegated to them by the people, they religiously confined it to a simple power to propose, and carefully provided that it should be no more than a proposal until sanctioned by the confederation Congress, by the state Legislatures, and by the people of the several...
Pagina 93 - ... love. I perceive that we have destroyed those individual powers which were able, singlehanded, to cope with tyranny; but it is the government that has inherited the privileges of which families, corporations, and individuals have been deprived; to the power of a small number of persons — which, if it was sometimes oppressive, was often conservative— has succeeded the weakness of the whole community.
Pagina 92 - ... Community and the Nation. The former is the point of real local self-government; the latter that of general self-government; and in the adjustments of the future these are the forces which will carry with them the determining power. The commonwealth government is now but a sort of middle instance. Too large for local government, too small for general, it is beginning to be regarded as a meddlesome intruder in both spheres — the tool of the strongest interest, the oppressor of the individual.
Pagina 156 - Under the pressure of all the excited feeling growing out of the war, our statesmen have still believed that the existence of the States with powers for domestic and local government, including the regulation of civil rights — the rights of person and of property — was essential to the perfect working of our complex form of government, though they have thought proper to impose additional limitations on the States, and to confer additional power on that of the nation.
Pagina 82 - The two natural elements in our system are now the' Community and the Nation. The former is the point of real local self-government ; the latter that of general self-government ; and in the adjustments of the future these are the forces which will carry with them the determining power.
Pagina 157 - But whatever fluctuations may be 'seen in the history of public opinion on this subject during the period of our national existence, we think it will be found that this court, so far as its functions required, has always held with a steady and an even hand the balance between State and Federal power, and we trust that such may continue to be the history of its relation to that subject so long as it shall have duties to perform which demand of it a construction of the Constitution, or of any of its...
Pagina 77 - Are we not dealing in mere abstractions when we say so? Are we not giving way to an exaggerated Platonism in our political philosophy — attempting to substitute ideas for things, instead of seeking to find ideas in things? Are we not grinding out an old tune, from which the melody has long since departed? In a word, have we not completed our Federal era and attained the natural condition of a real national system — conditions which not only permit it but require it?
Pagina 145 - States for that purpose, with the additions to the powers of the General Government to enforce those provisions, no substantial change has been made. The necessity of the great powers, conceded by the Constitution originally to the Federal Government, and the equal necessity of the autonomy of the States and their power to regulate their domestic affairs, remain as the great features of our complex form of government.