Confederation Quote by Goldwin Smith Download Open image “The father of confederation is deadlock.” — Goldwin Smith ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.9 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Confederation Father Funny Inspirational Love Parenting
Confederation is only yet in the gristle, and it will require five years more before it hardens into bone. — John A. Macdonald Copy Share Image
Confederation is a compact, made originally by four provinces but adhered to by all the nine provinces who have entered it, and I submit… — Wilfrid Laurier Copy Share Image
I fear a permanent Confederation will never be settled; tho the most material articles are I think got thro', so as to give great… — William Whipple Copy Share Image
“The great and radical vice in the construction of the existing Confederation is in the principle of LEGISLATION for STATES or GOVERNMENTS, in their… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
Why did the Articles [of Confederation] fail so completely? Most historians believe the founding fathers spent a great deal of their first constitutional convention… — Jon Stewart Copy Share Image
The framers of our Constitution never exhausted so much labor, wisdom, and forbearance in its formation, and surrounded it with so many guards and… — Robert E. Lee Copy Share Image
“On the first day of the meeting that would become known as the United States Constitutional Convention, Edmund Randolph of Virginia kicked off the… — William Hogeland Copy Share Image
The Constitution itself, plainly written as it is, the safeguard of our federative compact, the offspring of concession and compromise, binding together in the… — James K. Polk Copy Share Image
In the United States, the world's most important democracy, Congress seems permanently deadlocked, in hock to moneyed interests, unable to grapple with the big… — Anne Applebaum Copy Share Image
The Constitution was not made to fit us like a straitjacket. In its elasticity lies its chief greatness. — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
As to London we must console ourselves with the thought that if life outside is less poetic than it was in the days of… — Goldwin Smith Copy Share Image
The novelist must look on humanity without partiality or prejudice. His sympathy, like that of the historian, must be unbounded, and untainted by sect… — Goldwin Smith Copy Share Image
Canada is said to have got its name from the two Spanish words aca and nada, signifying 'there is nothing here.' — Goldwin Smith Copy Share Image
It is needless to say how great has been the influence of the doctrine of Evolution, or rather perhaps of the method of investigation… — Goldwin Smith Copy Share Image
We must also be permitted to bear in mind that evolution, though it may explain everything else, cannot explain itself. — Goldwin Smith Copy Share Image
Who can doubt that between the English and the French, between the Scotch and the Irish, there are differences of character which have profoundly… — Goldwin Smith Copy Share Image
Never had there been such an attempt to make conquest the servant of civilization. About keeping India there is no question. England has a… — Goldwin Smith Copy Share Image
Rich by nature, poor by policy' might be written over Canada's door. — Goldwin Smith Copy Share Image
Art is expression, and to have high expression you must have something high to express. — Goldwin Smith Copy Share Image
In my youth,geology was nervously striving to accommodate itself to Genesis. Now it is Genesis that is striving to accommodate itself to geology. — Goldwin Smith Copy Share Image
...As the disparity between the rich and the poor grows, the fight to corner resources is intensifying. To push through their "sweetheart deals," to… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
I am challenging Ezer Weizman to accept the democratic state where both of us can live in this democratic state. What confederation? No. One… — Yasser Arafat Copy Share Image
The power of the people pervading the proposed system, together with the strong confederation of the states, will form an adequate security against every… — John Dickinson Copy Share Image
I think in Atlantic Canada, because of what happened in the decades following Confederation, there is a culture of defeat that we have to… — Stephen Harper Copy Share Image
Confederation is only yet in the gristle, and it will require five years more before it hardens into bone. — John A. Macdonald Copy Share Image
I have made it quite clear that a unified Ireland was one solution that is out. A second solution was a confederation of two… — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
Brandon McCaw did a question about Federalism is a politicial system in which two or more distinct levels of government share and except power… — Brandon Mccaw Copy Share Image
The Supreme Court, in 2005, emphasized and contrasted the great power of Congress under the Commerce Clause to regulate interstate commerce versus much more… — Barbara Ann Radnofsky Copy Share Image
All the perplexities, confusion and distress in America arise, not from defects in their Constitution or Confederation, not from want of honor or virtue,… — John Adams Copy Share Image
If Yugoslavia is to exist, it can exist only as an alliance, a confederation of independent states. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“In examining the division of powers, as established by the Federal Constitution, remarking on the one hand the portion of sovereignty which has been… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
As in forming a political society, each individual contributes some of his rights, in order that he may, from a common stock of rights,… — John Dickinson Copy Share Image
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