Word: tenet
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...argument is unAmerican. It is an economic tenet of democracy that the free laborer produces more than the slave-laborer. If highly paid labor does not produce even more in proportion to its higher standard than subsistence labor, then democracy has not been economically feasible...
...step that Washington had refused to take he was at the point of taking; the rejection of the Third Term that Jefferson had elevated into a principle of government he was now prepared to challenge. His task was to answer the historic objections to the Third Term-the tenet of democracy which holds that the great reservoir of democratically trained citizens can always yield new leaders; that one danger of democracy is that an ambitious Executive may use the power of his office to keep himself in power. As he sat in the silent White House room, his words carrying...
Thus U. S. democracy, which began with the simple fervor of Roger Williams, entered the 20th Century with more complex and troubled beliefs. Trying to uncover a central, durable and indispensable tenet for modern U. S. democracy, Gabriel finds it, as did the late, great liberal, Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, in the one among the 18th-Century "rights of man" which still seems indubitably "natural": individual freedom of thought and speech...
...friend Mr. Arkwright; no SEC party concerned had officially mentioned the Senator. In Washington a telephone line soon connected SEC Chairman Jerome Frank and Candidate Willkie, who might well have considered himself the target of a third underhand stone. Canny, calculating Jerome Frank's first administrative tenet is to lay off avowed foes of SEC whenever possible. Up to now, in line with this strategy, he has generally laid off Mr. Willkie. Chairman Frank did his best to assure Mr. Willkie that no stone had been thrown his way, then said SEC's first public word...