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Noah Webster, Uncategorized

The Union of the American States, from Sketches of American Policy

The Union of the American States (1785)

by Noah Webster

No PERSON can be said to enjoy civil liberty who has no share in legislation, and no person is secure in society unless the laws are known and respected. 

In despotic governments, where the scepter is swayed by an individual, the ruler, whether denominated an emperor, a king, or a bashaw, having the sole right of making and executing laws, is the only person who enjoys any liberty. Every individual within his dominions is a slave. In this case, the interest of the individual, of the magistrate, and of the supreme power are all united, and government is of course as active as possible. Hence the vigor and decision of military operations when the power of the general is without limitation.  Continue reading The Union of the American States, from Sketches of American Policy →

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Isabella Beecher Hooker

The Constitutional Rights Of The Women Of The United States

 

The Constitutional Rights Of The Women Of The United States: An Address Before the International Council of Women, Washington D. C., March 30, 1888

by Isabella Beecher Hooker

In the month of August, 1774, that eminent statesman and true patriot, Thomas, Jefferson, in a little tract entitled “A Summary View of the Rights of British America,” used certain words which I will take for my text while addressing you to-day on the “Constitutional Rights of the Women Citizens of the United States.” They are these: Continue reading The Constitutional Rights Of The Women Of The United States →

Mark Twain, Samuel L. Clemens

from A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court

Clemens’s fascination with English history developed with his visits to the country and his research for The Prince and the Pauper (1881), a tale of a royal and a commoner changing places so each could find out what he had been envying. He was fascinated by the Elizabethan period and its wholesome frankness about sex and bodily functions, which he celebrated in a short obscene work called 1601: Conversation as it Was by the Social Fireside, in the Time of the Tudors. The book was concealed to all but select male friends, but is now freely readable on the Internet. Continue reading from A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court →

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