On the record
It is but too true that we have a sect preaching up & pouting after an English constitution of king, lords, & commons, & whose heads are itching for crowns, coronets & mitres....
Source
gutenberg.orgAlbert Beveridge: “It is but too true that we have a sect preaching up & pouting after an English constitution of king, lords, & commons, &…”
Editor's note · Context
Beveridge critiques those who seek to replicate the British monarchy in America, warning against the desire for aristocracy.
Share
More from Albert Beveridge
If this goes down, we shall immediately see attempted another act of Congress declaring that the President shall continue in office during life, reserving to another occasion the transfer of the succession to his heirs, and the…
The dreams he had dreamed, the visions he had seen back in his Virginia mountains were clad in glories as enchanting as the splendors of their tree-clad summits at break of day--dreams and visions for which strong men should be glad of the…
Thus provincialism in the form of States' Rights was given a fresh impulse and a new vitality.
Our children see this and learn to imitate it....
Other voices in this conversation
