| James Phinney Baxter - 1914 - 518 pages
...ruin their National Character forever, — this is the favorable moment to give such a tone to our Federal Government as will enable it to answer the...Confederation, and exposing us to become the sport of European politicks, which may play one State against another to prevent their growing importance, and to serve... | |
| James Phinney Baxter - 1914 - 518 pages
...ruin their National Character forever, — this is the favorable moment to give such a tone to our Federal Government as will enable it to answer the...Confederation, and exposing us to become the sport of European politicks, which may play one State against another to prevent their growing importance, and to serve... | |
| Bunford Samuel - Constitutional law - 1920 - 416 pages
...only for the States to be wise, and to establish their independence on the basis of an ... union." * "This may be the ill-fated moment for relaxing the...politics, which may play one State against another . . . For according to the system of policy the States shall adopt at this moment, they will stand... | |
| Thames Williamson - Social history - 1922 - 572 pages
...establish or ruin their national character forever; this is the favorable moment to give such a tone to our Federal government, as will enable it to answer the...exposing us to become the sport of European politics. . . . For, according to the system of policy the states shall adopt at this moment, they will stand... | |
| Stuart Leibiger - Biography & Autobiography - 2001 - 300 pages
...establish or ruin their national Character forever, this is the favorable moment to give such a tone to our Federal Government, as will enable it to answer the...politics, which may play one State against another ... to serve their own interested purposes. For, according to the system of Policy the States shall adopt... | |
| Bryan-Paul Frost, Jeffrey Sikkenga - Philosophy - 2003 - 852 pages
...European politics," manipulated by great powers. Now is "the favorable moment to give such a tone to our Federal Government, as will enable it to answer the ends of its institution": at stake was not only whether "the Revolution" was "a blessing or a curse" for Americans and "the present... | |
| John Ferling - History - 2003 - 576 pages
...American independence. In time, he cautioned, steps would have to be taken "to give such a tone to our Federal Government, as will enable it to answer the ends of its institution." Otherwise, America once again would "become the sport of European politics." Following his retirement,... | |
| Michael Lind - History - 2006 - 304 pages
...June 8, 1783, George Washington wrote that "this is the favorable moment to give such a tone to our Federal Government, as will enable it to answer the...to become the sport of European politics, which may lay one State against another to prevent their growing importance, and to serve their own interested... | |
| Carson Holloway - Political Science - 2008 - 244 pages
...Confederation," could America be independent. Now is "the favorable moment to give such a tone to our Federal Government, as will enable it to answer the ends of its institution": at stake was not only whether "the Revolution" was "a blessing or a curse" for Americans and "the present... | |
| English literature - 1783 - 742 pages
...give fuch a tone to the federal government as will enable it to anfwer the ends of its inftitution; or this may be the ill-fated moment for relaxing the...annihilating the cement of the confederation, and expoling us to become the fport of European politics, which may play oneftate againft another, to prevent... | |
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