Progressive DemocracyMacmillan, 1915 - 438 Seiten |
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Seite 168 - But before faith came, we were kept under the law, shut up unto the faith which should afterwards be revealed. Wherefore the law was our schoolmaster to bring us unto Christ, that we might be justified by faith. But after that faith is come, we are no longer under a schoolmaster.
Seite 32 - Government is instituted for the common good; for the protection, safety, prosperity, and happiness of the people; and not for the profit, honor, or private interest of any one man, family, or class of men: Therefore the people alone have an incontestable, unalienable and indefeasible right to institute government; and to reform, alter, or totally change the same, when their protection, safety, prosperity, and happiness require it.
Seite 206 - America is a young country with an old mentality: it has enjoyed the advantages of a child carefully brought up and thoroughly indoctrinated; it has been a wise child. But a wise child, an old head on young shoulders, always has a comic and an unpromising side.
Seite 423 - The only way to prepare for social life is to engage in social life. To form habits of social usefulness and serviceableness apart from any direct social need and motive...
Seite 19 - We are witnessing a renaissance of public spirit, a reawakening of sober public opinion, a revival of the power of the people, the beginning of an age of thoughtful reconstruction that makes our thought hark back to the great age in which Democracy was set up in America.
Seite 135 - The constitution, on this hypothesis, is a mere thing of wax in the hands of the judiciary, which they may twist and shape into any form they please. It should be remembered, as an axiom of eternal, truth in politics, that whatever power in any government is independent, is absolute also...
Seite 371 - The planning department of the democratic state," said Herbert Croly, "is created for action. ... It plans as far ahead as conditions permit or dictate. It changes its plans as often as conditions demand. It seeks above all to test its own plans, so as to discover whether they will accomplish the desired result.
Seite 230 - Smith is justified in declaring "that the first article of any sincerely intended progressive program must be the amendment of the amending clause of the Constitution.
Seite 211 - Thoroughgoing political democracy is unnecessary and meaningless except for the purpose of realizing the ideal of social justice. The idea of justice is so exacting and so comprehensive that it cannot be progressively attained by any agency save by the loyal and intelligent devotion of the popular will.
Seite 152 - ... them a mysterious intrinsic force. We are naturally in the habit of ascribing to the courts a sort of supernatural power to regulate the affairs of men, and to restrain the excesses and curb the passions of the people. We forget that no such power can really exist, and that no court can hinder a people that is determined to have its way; in short, that nothing can control the popular will except the sober good sense of the people themselves.