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| 9704cb0 | When Elbridge Gerry proposed in the Convention that no standing army exceed three thousand men, Washington is supposed to have made a countermotion that "no foreign enemy should invade the United States at any time, with more than three thousand troops." | Gordon S. Wood | ||
| c68053b | Foreigners thought the Americans' eating habits were atrocious, their food execrable, and their coffee detestable. Americans tended to eat fast, often sharing a common bowl or cup, to bolt their food in silence, and to use only their knives in eating. Everywhere travelers complained about "the violation of decorum, the want of etiquette, the rusticity of manners in this generation."36" | Gordon S. Wood | ||
| 0ecd78b | General Harmar led a force of some three hundred regulars and twelve hundred militia northward from Fort Washington (present-day Cincinnati) to attack Indian villages in the area of what is now Fort Wayne. Although the Americans burned Miami and Shawnee villages and killed two hundred Indians, they lost an equal number of men and were forced to retreat. This show of force by the United States had proved embarrassing, and the administration .. | Gordon S. Wood | ||
| 79b67b1 | In 1812 the U.S. Army consisted of fewer than seven thousand regular troops. | Gordon S. Wood | ||
| 6a6075e | Unlike in the Northern states, the only elected officials in Virginia were federal congressmen and state legislators; all the rest were either selected by the legislature or appointed by the governor or the county courts, which were self-perpetuating oligarchies that dominated local government. Thus popular democratic politics in Virginia and elsewhere in the South was severely limited, especially in contrast to the states of the North, whe.. | Gordon S. Wood | ||
| c0d96e5 | Showing oneself eager for office was a sign of being unworthy of it, for the office-seeker probably had selfish views rather than the public good in mind. | Gordon S. Wood | ||
| d548c8d | The Federalists resisted every attempt by Northern artisans to organize, lest their success, as one Federalist writer put it, "excite similar attempts among all other descriptions of persons who live by manual labor."79" | Gordon S. Wood | ||
| 5c1000e | It's cat food -- it's for people like you!" Saladin" | Gordon Korman | ||
| ac68c94 | He felt old at eleven. Amy | Gordon Korman | ||
| 1399daf | By contrast with this extensive Republican use of the press, the Federalists did little. Presuming that they had a natural right to rule, they had no need to stir up public opinion, which was what demagogues did in exploiting the people's ignorance and innocence.37 Federalist editors and printers of newspapers like John Fenno and his Gazette of the United States did exist, but most of these supporters of the national government were conserv.. | Gordon S. Wood | ||
| 8ee7d5b | In the decades following the Revolution, America changed so much and so rapidly that Americans not only became used to change, but came to expected and prize it. | novelty progress | Gordon S. Wood | |
| 5ab5fa2 | Jefferson's extraordinary efforts to defend the rights of neutrals to trade freely drove the country into a deep depression and severely damaged his presidency. He ended up violating much of what he and his party stood for. | Gordon S. Wood | ||
| e45e2f7 | The Baptists expanded from 94 congregations in 1760 to 858 in 1790 to become the single largest religious denomination in America. The Methodists had no adherents at all in 1760, but by 1790 they had created over seven hundred congregations--despite the fact that the great founder of English Methodism, John Wesley, had publicly opposed the American Revolution. | Gordon S. Wood | ||
| 34d2ece | In a republic that depended on the intelligence and virtue of all citizens, the diffusion of knowledge had to be widespread. Indeed, said Noah Webster, education had to be "the most important business in civil society." | Gordon S. Wood | ||
| a9d2bbf | Between 1798 and 1808 American colleges were racked by mounting incidents of student defiance and outright rebellion--on a scale never seen before or since in American history. | Gordon S. Wood | ||
| cf0c4cc | In a republic, they believed, no person should be allowed to exploit the public's authority for private gain. | Gordon S. Wood | ||
| 37c1f92 | Between 1803 and 1812 Britain and France and their allies seized nearly fifteen hundred American ships, with Britain taking 917 to France's 558. | Gordon S. Wood | ||
| 0157c03 | Allowing unelected judges to declare laws enacted by popularly elected legislatures unconstitutional and invalid seemed flagrantly inconsistent with free popular government. Such judicial usurpation, said Richard Dobbs Spaight, delegate to the Constitutional Convention from North Carolina, was "absurd" and "operated as an absolute negative on the proceedings of the Legislature, which no judiciary ought ever to possess." Instead of being gov.. | Gordon S. Wood | ||
| b333e33 | Both Jefferson and Madison remained convinced to the end of their lives that all parts of America's government had equal authority to interpret the fundamental law of the Constitution--all departments had what Madison called "a concurrent right to expound the constitution." | Gordon S. Wood | ||
| 29ec307 | After much jousting between the Congress and the president over the appointment of more officers, Madison by the end of the year had issued commissions to over eleven hundred individuals, 15 percent of whom immediately declined them, followed by an additional 8 percent who resigned after several months of service. | Gordon S. Wood | ||
| bf380a2 | Once the Constitution became a legal rather than a political document, judicial review, although not judicial supremacy, became inevitable. | Gordon S. Wood | ||
| 06d29fa | Wilkinson remained a central figure in the Spanish Conspiracy even after he became a lieutenant colonel and later general and commander of the U.S. Army. Even without knowing that he was a paid agent of Spain, John Randolph of Virginia said that Wilkinson was the only man he ever knew "who from the bark to the very core was a villain." | Gordon S. Wood | ||
| bc9ec66 | THE FEDERAL CONSTITUTION of 1787 was designed in part to solve the problems created by the presence in the state legislatures of these middling men. In addition to correcting the deficiencies of the Articles of Confederation, the Constitution was intended to restrain the excesses of democracy and protect minority rights from overbearing majorities in the state legislatures. But | Gordon S. Wood | ||
| ba90d3a | It was the family, John Adams had said in 1778, that was the "foundation of national morality." | Gordon S. Wood | ||
| 3eacda6 | The Court had a rule that it would indulge in wine-drinking only if it were raining. Marshall would look out the window on a sunny day and decide that wine-drinking was permissible since "our jurisdiction extends over so large a territory that the doctrine of chances makes it certain that it must be raining somewhere."11" | Gordon S. Wood | ||
| bc6ee71 | Nathaniel Macon of North Carolina was only one of many Republicans who in the early months of 1812 voted against all attempts to arm and prepare the navy, who opposed all efforts to beef up the War Department, who rejected all tax increases, and yet who in June 1812 voted for the war. | Gordon S. Wood | ||
| a076c59 | Throughout his life, Washington had learned that he "gained power from his readiness to give it up." Thanks to his enormous prestige, this forbearance infused many of the American republic's other nascent political institutions. As historian Gordon Wood put it, "If any single person was responsible for establishing the young Republic on a firm footing, it was Washington." -- | Steven Levitsky | ||
| 85f37d7 | Most basic and dangerous of all was the Federalist creation of a huge perpetual federal debt, which, as New York governor George Clinton explained, not only would poison the morals of the people through speculation but would also "add an artificial support to the administration, and by a species of bribery enlist the monied men of the community on the side of the measures of the government. . . . Look to Great Britain." | Gordon S. Wood | ||
| ba91820 | Madison and other supporters of the Consitution--the Federalists as they called themselves--hoped that an expanded national sphere of operation would prevent the clashing interests of the society from combining to create tyrannical majorities in the new national government. | Gordon S. Wood | ||
| 6730c8b | You want me to stop and give the Wizards a chance to do it?" he shot back. Dead" | Gordon Korman | ||
| bcc1c47 | bons mots | James Ellroy | ||
| 960c115 | Which was still pretty ill. | Gordon Korman | ||
| 1287ecf | largest producers of orange traffic cones in the United States. | Gordon Korman | ||
| 20d6129 | bladelike motion of the shoulders as she | Gordon Korman | ||
| 823e689 | TWENTY RMS | Gordon Korman | ||
| 6b680b8 | mural | Gordon Korman | ||
| 4f14022 | Registration Day' by Gavin Gunhold (1899-- ) Toronto Review of Poetry, 1947 On registration day at taxidermy school I distinctly saw the eyes of the stuffed moose Move. | humor moose poetry school taxidermy taxidermy-school | Gordon Korman | |
| a1802fa | I think you're going to like these," she said, placing the stack on the table. "The whole class spent Monday and Tuesday painting them up." Raymond and Sean lifted up the top poster and stared. ARSE PRESENTS SUPER HALLOWEEN PARTY FOOD, DRINKS, GREAT MUSIC HALLOWEEN TRAMPOLINE COSTUME CONTEST FOR THE MYSTERY PRIZE DON'T MISS IT! She smiled proudly. "What do you think?" "Nice," said Sean, wondering why Raymond had suddenly gone so silent.. | clever humor initials posters unfortunate-acronym | Gordon Korman | |
| 9d976af | Risks aren't risks when the consequences are no worse than your regular life. | Gordon Korman | ||
| 338929c | flames dancing on their dueling swords. One of the squirt painters stepped out beside them. Oh, | Gordon Korman | ||
| 3b0fb6d | Jonah shook his head, clucking in false sympathy. "Told you guys -- no way out." They" | Gordon Korman | ||
| 7b64172 | And there was her miracle. | Gordon Korman | ||
| 7d594f5 | them from both sides, it looked like escape. Dan | Gordon Korman | ||
| 9134dac | Amy took in the inspired look on her brother's face. "That's stealing!" Dan" | Gordon Korman |