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to the end that the office might be powerful and the officer insignificant,

The plan to extend navigation of the Potomac influenced American history in ways that far transcended the narrow matter of commercial navigation. It created a set of practical problems that could be solved only by cooperation between Virginia and Maryland, setting a pattern for a seminal interstate conference at Annapolis in September 1786 and

0 direito de primeiro ocupante, embora mais real que o direito do mais forte, só se toma um direito verdadeiro após o estabeiecimento do direito de propriedade. Todo homem tem naturalmente direito a tudo que lhe é necessário; mas o ato positivo que o faz proprietário de algum bem o exclui de todo o resto. Feita a sua parte, deve ele a isso

Thus, on the one hand the State is exposed to the perils of a revolution, on the other to perpetual mutability; the former system threatens the very existence of the Government, the latter is an obstacle to all steady and consistent policy.

The presidential legacy he left behind in Philadelphia was a towering one. As Gordon Wood has observed, “The presidency is the powerful office it is in large part because of Washington’s initial behavior.”36 Washington had forged the executive branch of the federal government, appointed outstanding department heads, and set a benchmark for

The two great points of difference between a democracy and a republic are: first, the delegation of the government, in the latter, to a small number

In the State of New York the officers of the central government exercise, in certain cases, a sort of inspection or control over the secondary bodies. *i