On the record
It is vain to say that our fathers did not intend this great power and foresee its exercise.
Source
gutenberg.orgEditor's note · Context
Sumner argues against the notion that the Founding Fathers did not foresee the expansive powers granted to Congress.
Share
More from Charles Sumner
According to recent calculations, its annual cost is not less than a thousand millions of dollars.
Their existence is a disgrace to civilization; for it implies the common consent of nations to the Arbitrament of War, as regulated by these laws.
Controlled by such a code, employing such representatives, sustained by such agencies, animated by such Furies, and producing such fruits of tears and bitterness, it must be open to question.
By Perpetual Peace Kant understood a condition of nations where there could be no fear of War; and this condition, he said, was demanded by reason, which, abhorring all War, as little adapted to establish right, must regard this final…
Other voices in this conversation
