Urbanization: Its Effects on Government and SocietyE.P. Dutton, 1927 - 683 頁 |
其他版本 - 查看全部
常見字詞
activity agricultural American appears asserted associated birth rate born Boston cent centers of population church citizen city-state cityward trend civil classes colonies Constitution contribution convention declared decline degree democracy democratic early economic effect efficiency election England England town evidence fact farm favorable Federalist former France freedom Germany growth highly urbanized History important industrial interest Italy James Bryce John Adams labor land large number latter leaders leadership less Literary Digest London manifested Massachusetts ment modern Moreover movement native organization party period political corruption popu popular prevailed proportion recent reference referendum relative religious represented respect result Revolution Rhode Island rural and urban rural community rural districts rural elements rural population slavery social spirit spoils system struggle suffrage superior tion tive town system unfavorable United urban centers urban elements urban influences urban population vote voters Washington Star whole writer York City
熱門章節
第 258 頁 - Some men look at constitutions with sanctimonious reverence, and deem them like the ark of the covenant, too sacred to be touched. They ascribe to the men of the preceding age a wisdom more than human, and suppose what they did to be beyond amendment.
第 10 頁 - The mobs of great cities add just so much to the support of pure government, as sores do to the strength of the human body.
第 102 頁 - Town- meetings are to liberty what primary schools are to science; they bring it within the people's reach, they teach men how to use and how to enjoy it. A nation may establish a system of free government, but without the spirit of municipal institutions it cannot have the spirit of liberty.
第 288 頁 - New Hampshire to call a full and free representation of the people, and that the representatives, if they think it necessary, establish such a form of government as, in their judgment, will best produce the happiness of the people, and most effectually secure peace and good order in the province, during the continuance of the present dispute between Great Britain and the colonies.
第 41 頁 - Give me the liberty to know, to utter, and to argue freely according to conscience, above all liberties.
第 12 頁 - ... be to commit that interest to the winds. The great body of the people, are now the owners and actual cultivators of the soil. With that wholesome population we always expect to find moderation, frugality, order, honesty, and a due sense of independence, liberty, and justice. It is impossible that any people can lose their liberties by internal fraud or violence, so long as the country is parcelled out among freeholders of moderate possessions, and those freeholders have a sure and efficient control...
第 373 頁 - Yet I fear such a paper would find few subscribers. It is a melancholy truth that a suppression of the press could not more completely deprive the nation of its benefits than is done by its abandoned prostitution to falsehood. Nothing can now be believed which is seen in a newspaper. Truth itself becomes suspicious by being put into that polluted vehicle.
第 259 頁 - ... a wisdom more than human, and suppose what they did to be beyond amendment. I knew that age well : I belonged to it, and labored with it. It deserved well of its country. It was very like the present, but without the experience of the present; and forty years of experience in government is worth a century of book-reading : and this they would say themselves, were they to rise from the dead.
第 157 頁 - In each colony this region was in conflict with the dominant classes of the coast. It constituted a quasi-revolutionary area before the days of the Revolution, and it formed the basis on which the Democratic party was afterwards established. It was, therefore, in the West, as it was in the period before the Declaration of Independence, that the struggle for democratic development first revealed itself, and in that area the essential ideas of American democracy had already appeared.
第 10 頁 - I think our governments will remain virtuous for many centuries; as long as they are chiefly agricultural; and this will be as long as there shall be vacant lands in any part of America. When they get piled upon one another in large cities, as in Europe, they will become corrupt as in Europe.