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The President sets up the doctrine that the islands are not under the Constitution and that they may be governed by him outside of all constitutional restraints.
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gutenberg.orgGeorge Boutwell: “The President sets up the doctrine that the islands are not under the Constitution and that they may be governed by him…”
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Boutwell criticizes the President's claim that the Philippines are not governed by the Constitution.
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If the negroes in America are entitled to freedom from a state of subserviency, are not the colored races in the Philippines entitled to freedom, and that whether they are under the Constitution or beyond its jurisdiction?
You are called to a choice between the doctrines of Nathan Dane and Abraham Lincoln on one side and the doctrines and policy of President McKinley and his supporters on the other side.
Shall your representative stand for Nathan Dane and Abraham Lincoln and Freedom, or for William McKinley and Despotism?
Here are the assertion of power and the promise of goodness that have attended the origin and movement of every despotism that has risen to curse mankind.
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