THE

AMERICAN REPUBLIC:

ITS

CONSTITUTION, TENDENCIES, AND DESTINY.

BY

O. A. BROWNSON, LL. D.

NEW YORK:
P. O'SHEA, 104 BLEECKER STREET.
1866.

Entered according to Act of Congress, In the year 1865,
By P. O'SHEA,
In the Clerk's office of the District Court of the United States
for the Southern District of New York.

TO THE
HON. GEORGE BANCROFT,
THE ERUDITE, PHILOSOPHICAL, AND ELOQUENT
Historian of the United States,

THIS FEEBLE ATTEMPT TO SET FORTH THE PRINCIPLES OF
GOVERNMENT, AND TO EXPLAIN AND DEFEND THE CONSTITUTION OF
THE AMERICAN REPUBLIC, IS RESPECTFULLY DEDICATED,
IN MEMORY OF OLD FRIENDSHIP, AND AS A
SLIGHT HOMAGE TO GENIUS, ABILITY,
PATRIOTISM, PRIVATE WORTH,
AND PUBLIC SERVICE,
BY THE AUTHOR.

CONTENTS.

                                                             PAGECHAPTER I.INTRODUCTION                                                    1CHAPTER II.GOVERNMENT                                                     15CHAPTER III.ORIGIN OF GOVERNMENT                                           26CHAPTER IV.ORIGIN OF GOVERNMENT—Continued                                 43CHAPTER V.ORIGIN OF GOVERNMENT—Continued                                71CHAPTER VI.ORIGIN OF GOVERNMENT—Concluded                               106CHAPTER VII.CONSTITUTION OF GOVERNMENT                                    136CHAPTER VIII.CONSTITUTION OF GOVERNMENT—Concluded                         166CHAPTER IX.THE UNITED STATES                                             192CHAPTER X.CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED STATES                             218CHAPTER XI.THE CONSTITUTION—Continued                                   244CHAPTER XII.SECESSION                                                     277CHAPTER XIII.RECONSTRUCTION                                                309CHAPTER XIV.POLITICAL TENDENCIES                                          348CHAPTER XV.DESTINY—POLITICAL AND RELIGIOUS                              392

PREFACE.

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