A History of the American People
revolts and Indian raids. That is what happened in South and Central America a generation later, when the wars between the rebel ...
With the British gone and Washington back in Mount Vernon, how was America to govern itself? It did not miss monarchy. The Briti ...
export enough to pay for them.' Ebenezer Baldwin, a little more sharply, agreed: We have no such thing as a common People among ...
and the Admiralty, with professional staffs, simply to get things done. This was the beginning of executive government. Courts h ...
practice, served in Congress 1782-3, and put himself in the forefront of those demanding a stronger national government. Within ...
coffers. That, of course, was at the root of the collapse of credit and the runaway inflation. All agreed: things could not go o ...
does in great historical events. Virginia and Maryland were rowing over the navigation of the Potomac, which both claimed the le ...
Congress or the congresses held under the Articles of Association. Most were planters, landowners or merchants; a number had ser ...
was powerless to protect itself, or any of the states, from large-scale domestic violence, and that this absence of a central po ...
These powers were not explored until Andrew Jackson's time, half a century on, when they astonished and frightened many people; ...
their children and grandchildren and generations to come. The people ought to participate, as a nation, in deciding whether to e ...
between government and people, and the degree to which the constituent elements of government, executive, legislature, and judic ...
individual. But the federalists admitted this defect, and they agreed that, once the Constitution was ratified, the first thing ...
this, insists that the powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the states, are re ...
changing and expanding so fast that this allocation was out of date within a year or two. For one thing, more territories were c ...
marry the German women, but dismissed the idea for German women are generally so disagreeable to an English eye that it wou'd re ...
directly contrary to the principle that in a true republic there is but one estate-the people.' Kent was thus driven to fall bac ...
confronted by the federal Leviathan? The Bill of Rights went some way. But that depended for its efficacy on enforcement by the ...
the Cabinet, as he still does. The Founding Fathers decided on a complete and formal separation of powers but they did not follo ...
established church and a head of state crowned in a sacramental ceremony and a parliament which began its proceedings, each day, ...
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