WE HAVE A DREAM
Great Americans had great dreams
As a preamble to our dreams, listen to the words of great Americans that constitute the basis, the heart, the soul, and the consequences of our renewed PROGRESSIVE MANIFESTO.
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This is essentially a Peoples'....struggle for maintaining in the world, that form, and substance of government, whose leading object is, to elevate the condition of men--to lift artificial weights from all shoulders--to clear the paths of laudable pursuit for all--to afford all, an unfettered start, and a fair chance in the race of life. [T]his is the leading object of the government for whose existence we now contend.
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"That is the real issue...that will continue...when these poor tongues...shall be silent. It is the eternal struggle between
these two principles--right and wrong--throughout the world. They are the two principles that have stood face to face
since the beginning of time: and will ever ciontinue to struggle. The one is the common right of humanity and the other
is the divine right of kings. It is the same principle in whatever shape it develops itself...that says, "You work and toil
and earn bread, and I'll eat it." No matter in what shape it comes, whether from the mouth of a king who seeks to
bestride the people of his own nation and live by the fruits of their labor,r for one race of men as an apology for
enslaving another race, it is the same tyrannical principle."
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"Five score years ago, a great American signed a momentous decree that came as a great beacon light of hope for millions who had been seared in the flames. It came as a joyous daybreak to end the long night.
"When the architects of our republic wrote the magnificent words of the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence, they were signing a promissory note to which every American was to fall heir. This note was a promise that all men would be guaranteed the unalienable rights of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness."
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"The [Constitution] contains an enumeration of powers expressly granted by the people to their [federal] government. It has been said [by Jefferson and others, now for centuries] that these powers ought to be construed strictly; but why ought they to be so construed? Is there one sentence in the Constitution which gives countenance to this rule? ...nor is there one sentence in the Constitution ... that prescribes this rule.
We do not therefore think ourselves justified in adopting it.
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They have invented an ingenious sophism which .... derives...its currency, from the assumption that there is some omnipotent, and sacred supremacy, pertaining to a State.... Our states have neither more, nor less power, than that reserved to them, in the Union, by the Constitution.... Having never been states...outside of the Union, whence this magical omnipotence of "State rights" asserting a claim to power...? Much is said about the "sovereignty" of the states; but the word, even, is not in the national Constitution; nor...in any of the State constitutions. What is a "sovereignty," in the political sense of the term? Would it be far wrong to define it as "A political community, without a political superior"? ....
The States have their status in the Union, and they have no other legal status.... The Union...procured their independence, and their liberty.... [The] Union gave each of them, whatever of independence, and liberty, it has. ....
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Unquestionably the States have the powers, and rights, reserved to them in, and by the National Constitution; but among these, surely, are not all conceivable powers...; but, at most, such only, as were known in the world, at the time, as governmental powers; as...merely administrative power.
This relative matter of National power, and State rights, as a principle, is no other than the principle of generality and locality. Whatever concerns the whole, should be confided to the whole--to the general government; while, whatever concerns only the State, should be left, exclusively, to the state. This is a11 there is of original principle about it.
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