On the record
America has chosen to be, in many respects, and to many purposes, a nation; and for all these purposes, her government is complete; to all these objects, it is competent.
Source
gutenberg.orgAlbert Beveridge: “America has chosen to be, in many respects, and to many purposes, a nation; and for all these purposes, her government…”
Editor's note · Context
This quote reflects Beveridge's view of America as a cohesive nation with a competent government for its purposes.
Share
More from Albert Beveridge
In the development of John Marshall as well as of his great ultimate antagonist, Thomas Jefferson, during the formative decade which we are now to consider, the influence of the French Revolution must never be forgotten.
The Alien and Sedition Laws were, they asserted, the beginning of monarchy, the foundation of absolutism.
The first duties of a good citizen--Reverence for the Laws and Respect for the Magistracy.
The war in which the several potentates of Europe were engaged against France, although in almost every instance declared by that power, was pronounced to be a war for the extirpation of human liberty, and for the banishment of free…
Other voices in this conversation
