This is a list of all the questions and their associated study carrel identifiers. One can learn a lot of the "aboutness" of a text simply by reading the questions.
| identifier | question |
|---|---|
| 896 | But have they maturely considered the whole subject? |
| 896 | But what is the right of a huntsman to the forest of a thousand miles over which he has accidentally ranged in quest of prey? |
| 896 | Is there one among you who can hear the simple and pathetic energy of these expressions without tenderness and admiration? |
| 896 | Shall he forbid the oaks of the forest to fall before the axe of industry, and to rise again, transformed into the habitations of ease and elegance? |
| 896 | Shall he forbid the wilderness to blossom like a rose? |
| 896 | Shall the liberal bounties of Providence to the race of man be monopolized by one of ten thousand for whom they were created? |
| 896 | Shall the lordly savage not only disdain the virtues and enjoyments of civilization himself, but shall he control the civilization of a world? |
| 10065 | Have you a copy of the French Constitution? |
| 10065 | Am I unduly pessimistic? |
| 10065 | Americans have never lacked interest in English history; for however broad the stream of our national life, how could we ignore its chief source? |
| 10065 | And have we now forgotten that powerful Friend or do we imagine that we no longer need His assistance? |
| 10065 | And if a sparrow can not fall to the ground without His notice, is it probable that an empire can rise without His aid? |
| 10065 | But suppose the development of labour- saving machinery should reach a stage where all human labour was eliminated, what would be the effect on man? |
| 10065 | But what can man- made law do in this warfare against the blind forces of Nature? |
| 10065 | But what of its future and how long will the Constitution wholly resist the washing of time and circumstance? |
| 10065 | But when in the history of American business was there such a volume of broken faith as in the drastic deflation of 1920? |
| 10065 | Conceding that lawlessness is not a novel phenomenon, is not the present time characterized by an exceptional revolt against the authority of law? |
| 10065 | From such an assembly can a perfect production be expected? |
| 10065 | If, to please the people, we offer what we ourselves disapprove, how can we afterwards defend our work? |
| 10065 | Is it not possible that modern democracy is in danger of strangulation by its present- day methods and ideals? |
| 10065 | Is it surprising that so portentous a change should have fevered his brain and disturbed his mental equilibrium? |
| 10065 | Is it well that while we range with Science, glorying in the Time, City children soak and blacken soul and sense in city slime?" |
| 10065 | Is there in this day and generation a spirit of lawlessness greater or different than that that has always characterized human society? |
| 10065 | May not the current thought of our time be compared with the mighty Mississippi in the period of a spring freshet? |
| 10065 | Our constant inquiry is,"Is it so nominated"in that compact? |
| 10065 | Our fathers could not talk over the telephone for three thousand miles, but have we surpassed them in thoughts of enduring value? |
| 10065 | The destinies of the English- speaking world are bound up with her fortunes and migrations and its conquests are justified by her works"? |
| 10065 | What was the vision to which the Wise Man referred? |
| 10065 | When did a nobler"vision"inspire men in the political annals of mankind? |
| 10065 | When was a great secret better kept? |
| 10065 | Who can question that this is pre- eminently the age of the sham and the counterfeit? |
| 41095 | 12. with the amendment to it proposed& entered on the 15 instant, as called for by Col. Mason be now taken up? |
| 41095 | Above all shall that man be above it, who can commit the most extensive injustice? |
| 41095 | And would any one pretend that such a right tended to blend& confound powers that ought to be separately exercised? |
| 41095 | Are all laws whatever to be brought up? |
| 41095 | Are not the States y^e Agents? |
| 41095 | Are not they to ratify its proceedings? |
| 41095 | Are they men? |
| 41095 | Are they property? |
| 41095 | Are they to be excluded? |
| 41095 | Besides in what mode& proportion are they to vote in the Council of Revision? |
| 41095 | Besides who is to impeach? |
| 41095 | Can it be supposed that this vast Country including the Western territory will 150 years hence remain one nation? |
| 41095 | Can no better establish^t be devised? |
| 41095 | Can one man be trusted better than all the others if they all agree? |
| 41095 | Can there be a more fruitful source of dispute, or a kind of dispute more difficult to be settled? |
| 41095 | Did they not appoint this Convention? |
| 41095 | Does no other kind of property but land evidence a common interest in the proprietor? |
| 41095 | For What then are all the sacrifices to be made? |
| 41095 | From such an assembly can a perfect production be expected? |
| 41095 | Gen^l Pinkney asked whether no troops were ever to be raised untill an attack should be made on us? |
| 41095 | How shall the freehold be defined? |
| 41095 | How was a Convention to be formed? |
| 41095 | How was redress to be obtained in case duties should be laid beyond the purpose expressed? |
| 41095 | If he is to be the Guardian of the people let him be appointed by the people? |
| 41095 | If the new Constitution then violates the faith pledged to any description of people will not the makers of it, will not the States, be the violaters? |
| 41095 | Is he to have a military force for the purpose, or to have the command of the Militia, the only existing force that can be applied to that use? |
| 41095 | Is it meant to require a greater proportion of votes? |
| 41095 | Is it to be presumed that the people will ever agree to such a system? |
| 41095 | Is no road nor bridge to be established without the Sanction of the General Legislature? |
| 41095 | Is the smallest as well as the largest debtor to be excluded? |
| 41095 | Is this reasonable? |
| 41095 | Is this the case?" |
| 41095 | M^r King asked what was the precise meaning of_ direct_ taxation? |
| 41095 | M^r Madison, will it not be sufficient to prohibit the making them a_ tender_? |
| 41095 | Of whom was it to consist? |
| 41095 | On 2^d part shall the Electors be chosen by the State Legislatures? |
| 41095 | On the question Shall he be ineligible a 2^d time? |
| 41095 | On the question Shall the Executive continue for 7 years? |
| 41095 | On the question for 6 years? |
| 41095 | On the question shall the vice President be ex officio President of the Senate? |
| 41095 | On y^e Question, Shall the Executive be removable on impeachments& c.? |
| 41095 | Ought not every man who pays a tax, to vote for the representative who is to levy& dispose of his money? |
| 41095 | Shall Vermont be reduced by force in favor of the States claiming it? |
| 41095 | Shall all the States then be bound to defend each;& shall each be at liberty to introduce a weakness which will render defence more difficult? |
| 41095 | Shall any man be above Justice? |
| 41095 | The question as moved by M^r Elseworth being divided, on the 1^{st} part shall y^e Nat^l Executive be appointed by Electors? |
| 41095 | To whom have Cong^s applied on subsequent occasions for further powers? |
| 41095 | Upon what principle is it that the slaves shall be computed in the representation? |
| 41095 | Was he to promote the establishment of a plan which he verily believed would end in Tyranny? |
| 41095 | Was the Executive to hold his place during good behaviour? |
| 41095 | Was this a proper model for us? |
| 41095 | Was this qualification restrained to freeholders? |
| 41095 | What are the great objects of the Gen^l System? |
| 41095 | What danger could there be in giving a controuling power to the Nat^l Legislature? |
| 41095 | What effect will this have? |
| 41095 | What is the extent of the term"disability"and who is to be the judge of it? |
| 41095 | What is the language of Reason on this subject? |
| 41095 | What is to be the remedy? |
| 41095 | What led to the appointment of this Convention? |
| 41095 | What might have been the consequence of such a regulation at the commencement, or even in the Course of the late contest for our liberties? |
| 41095 | What obligation then can the small States be under to concur ag^{st} their judgments in reinstating the section? |
| 41095 | What was the objection to this? |
| 41095 | What was the practice before this in cases where the Chief Magistrate rendered himself obnoxious? |
| 41095 | Wherein then lay the dangerous tendency of the innovations to establish an aristocracy in the Senate? |
| 41095 | Whither then must we resort? |
| 41095 | Who are to form the New Constitution by which the condition of that class of citizens is to be made worse than the other class? |
| 41095 | Who will be the best Judges whether these appointments be well made? |
| 41095 | Who would rely on a fair decision from three individuals if two had an interest in the case opposed to the rights of the third? |
| 41095 | Why is the provision restrained to Treason& bribery only? |
| 41095 | Why should they be restrained from checking the extravagance of the other House? |
| 41095 | Why then is no other property included? |
| 41095 | Why then prohibit bills of credit? |
| 41095 | Why? |
| 41095 | Will not the new Constitution be their Act? |
| 41095 | Will such men be the secure& faithful guardians of liberty? |
| 41095 | Will the former be so in case of a universal& equal suffrage? |
| 41095 | Will the latter be so in case of a suffrage confined to the holders of property? |
| 41095 | Will they not be the members of it? |
| 41095 | With these difficulties in his mind, what course he asked was he to pursue? |
| 41095 | Would this be the case, if the Executive should be impeachable? |
| 41095 | by what rule decide? |
| 41095 | what the force of its acts? |
| 40861 | Shall the clause allowing each State one vote in the 2^d branch, stand as part of the Report,? |
| 40861 | Suppose the first branch granted money, may not the second branch, from state views, counteract the first? 40861 Will the representatives of a state forget state interests? |
| 40861 | 2. was it probable that the States would adopt& ratify a scheme, which they had never authorized us to propose? |
| 40861 | A House of Nobles was essential to such a Gov^t could these be created by a breath, or by a stroke of the pen? |
| 40861 | A discretion must be left on one side or the other? |
| 40861 | Again What use may be made of such a privilege in case of great emergency? |
| 40861 | And have we now forgotten that powerful friend? |
| 40861 | And if a sparrow can not fall to the ground without his notice, is it probable that an empire can rise without his aid? |
| 40861 | And is it not a clear principle that in a free Gov^t those who are to be the objects of a Gov^t ought to influence the operations of it? |
| 40861 | Are gentlemen in earnest when they suppose that this exclusion will prevent the first characters from coming forward? |
| 40861 | Are not the Citizens of Pen^a equal to those of N. Jersey? |
| 40861 | Are not the large States evidently seeking to aggrandize themselves at the expense of the small? |
| 40861 | Are the distinction of Patrician& Plebeian known among us? |
| 40861 | Are the large States less attached to their existence more likely to commit suicide, than the small? |
| 40861 | Are the people of the three large States more aristocratic than those of the small ones? |
| 40861 | Are they admitted as Citizens? |
| 40861 | Are they efficient States? |
| 40861 | Are they in the hands of the few who may be called rich; in the possession of less than a hundred citizens? |
| 40861 | Are we not struck at seeing the luxury and venality which has already crept in among us? |
| 40861 | Are we to suspend the business until the deputies arrive? |
| 40861 | Ask any man if he confides in Cong^s if he confides in the State of Pen^a if he will lend his money or enter into contract? |
| 40861 | Besides shall the best, the most able, the most virtuous citizens not be permitted to hold offices? |
| 40861 | Besides, How can it be thought that the proposed negative can be exercised? |
| 40861 | But are there any exceptions of this sort to the Articles of Confederation? |
| 40861 | But does it follow that an equality of votes is necessary for the purpose? |
| 40861 | But is this a Republican Gov^t, it will be asked? |
| 40861 | But reverse the case, and leave the whole at the mercy of each part, and will not the general interest be continually sacrificed to local interests? |
| 40861 | But whatever might have been y^e cause, was not in effect the vote of one State doubled, and the influence of another increased by it? |
| 40861 | But why so? |
| 40861 | But will it be more so in one plan than the other? |
| 40861 | But will such a plan be adopted out of doors? |
| 40861 | By the vote already taken, will not the temper of the state legislatures transfuse itself into the Senate? |
| 40861 | Can the military habits& manners of Sparta be resembled to our habits& manners? |
| 40861 | Can we forget for whom we are forming a Government? |
| 40861 | Can you always rely on the patriotism of the members? |
| 40861 | Could the national resources, if exerted to the utmost enforce a national decree ag^{st} Mass^{ts} abetted perhaps by several of her neighbours? |
| 40861 | Did any such common interest exist? |
| 40861 | Do gentlemen mean to pave the way to hereditary Monarchy? |
| 40861 | Do the people at large complain of Cong^s? |
| 40861 | Do they flatter themselves that the people will ever consent to such an innovation? |
| 40861 | Do we create a free government?" |
| 40861 | Does the scheme of N. Jersey produce this effect? |
| 40861 | Does this doctrine result from the nature of compacts? |
| 40861 | From the Monied interest? |
| 40861 | From the landed interest? |
| 40861 | Give the large States an influence in proportion to their magnitude, and what will be the consequence? |
| 40861 | Has Holland or Switzerland ever complained of the equality of the states which compose their respective confederacies? |
| 40861 | Has a man in Virg^a a number of votes in proportion to the number of his slaves? |
| 40861 | Has it less dignity? |
| 40861 | Has it not been the real or supposed interest of the major number? |
| 40861 | Has not Mass^{ts}, notwithstanding, the most powerful member of the Union, already raised a body of troops? |
| 40861 | Have not the boroughs however held fast their constitutional rights? |
| 40861 | Have they not been dictated by interest, by ambition? |
| 40861 | He asks M^r S. whether the State at this time dare impose& collect a tax on y^e people? |
| 40861 | His question was how is the power of the 1^{st} branch increased or that of the 2^d diminished by giving the proposed privilege to the former? |
| 40861 | How can these be filled? |
| 40861 | How could this be taken from them by a_ legislative_ ratification only? |
| 40861 | How is the danger in all cases of interested coalitions to oppress the minority to be guarded ag^{st}? |
| 40861 | How is this danger to be guarded ag^{st} on the republican principles? |
| 40861 | How strongly will it feel its importance and self- sufficiency? |
| 40861 | If a proportional representation be right, why do we not vote so here? |
| 40861 | If as wealth, then why is no other wealth but slaves included? |
| 40861 | If danger be apprehended from the Executive what a left- handed way is this of obviating it? |
| 40861 | If such a meeting of the people was actually to take place, would the slaves vote? |
| 40861 | If the Representatives of the people would be bound by the ties he had mentioned, what need was there of a Senate? |
| 40861 | In return he would ask will the people adopt the other plan? |
| 40861 | In the present deranged State of our finances can so expensive a System be seriously thought of? |
| 40861 | Is a real& fair majority, the natural hot- bed of aristocracy? |
| 40861 | Is it a novel thing that the few should have a check on the many? |
| 40861 | Is it because the laws are to operate immediately on their persons& properties? |
| 40861 | Is it because the representatives are chosen by the people themselves? |
| 40861 | Is it because, the larger have more at stake than the smaller? |
| 40861 | Is it conceivable that there will be leisure for such a task? |
| 40861 | Is it for_ men_, or for the imaginary beings called_ States_? |
| 40861 | Is it from an internal reform of their Gov^{ts}? |
| 40861 | Is it not the case in the British Constitution the wisdom of which so many gentlemen have united in applauding? |
| 40861 | Is it to spring from commerce? |
| 40861 | Is she not now augmenting them, without having even deigned to apprise Cong^s of Her intention? |
| 40861 | Is the National Legislature too to sit continually in order to revise the laws of the States? |
| 40861 | Is the Representation there less unequal? |
| 40861 | Is the old confederation dissolved, because some of the states wish a new confederation?" |
| 40861 | Is then the object of the Convention likely to be accomplished in this way? |
| 40861 | Is there no danger of a Legislative despotism? |
| 40861 | Is there no difference of interests, no rivalship of commerce, of manufactures? |
| 40861 | M^r Wilson, the question is shall the members of the 2^d branch be chosen by the Legislatures of the States? |
| 40861 | May not a Legislature filled by the State Legislatures operate on the people who chuse the State Legislatures? |
| 40861 | Might it not, on the other side be asked how the former was to be secured ag^{st} the latter? |
| 40861 | Might not such a mode of election be devised among ourselves as will defend the community ag^{st} these effects in any dangerous degree? |
| 40861 | On Question shall the words stand as part of the Report? |
| 40861 | Ought this merit to be made a disqualification? |
| 40861 | Shall all the laws of the States be sent up to the Gen^l Legislature before they shall be permitted to operate? |
| 40861 | Shall we effect the cure by establishing an equality of votes as is proposed? |
| 40861 | Shall we leave the States alone unprovided with the means for this purpose? |
| 40861 | Should the Executive Magistrate be taken from one of the large States would not the other two be thereby thrown into the scale with the other States? |
| 40861 | States at present groan? |
| 40861 | Take mankind as they are, and what are they governed by? |
| 40861 | The Swiss cantons have scarce any union at all, and have been more than once at war with one another.--How then are all these evils to be avoided? |
| 40861 | The first three or four years we might go on well enough; but what would be the case afterwards? |
| 40861 | The great question is what provision shall we make for the happiness of our Country? |
| 40861 | The true question was in what mode the best choice w^d be made? |
| 40861 | There being 5 ays, 4 noes,& 1 div^d, a question was asked whether a majority had voted in the Affirmative? |
| 40861 | They may even be under some foreign influence; are they in such case to participate in the negative on the will of the other States? |
| 40861 | To what standard will you resort? |
| 40861 | Under these ideas can it be expected that the people can approve the Virginia plan? |
| 40861 | Was a Combination to be apprehended from the mere circumstance of equality of size? |
| 40861 | Was not this remark as applicable to one branch of the Representation as to the other? |
| 40861 | Was such a remedy eligible? |
| 40861 | Were the large States formidable_ singly_ to their smaller neighbours? |
| 40861 | What Results? |
| 40861 | What danger is there that the whole will unnecessarily sacrifice a part? |
| 40861 | What has been the consequence? |
| 40861 | What has been the source of those unjust laws complained of among ourselves? |
| 40861 | What inducements can be offered that will suffice? |
| 40861 | What is the condition of the lesser states in the German Confederacy? |
| 40861 | What is the government now forming, over states or persons? |
| 40861 | What is the state of things in the lax system of the Dutch Confederacy? |
| 40861 | What is the true principle of Representation? |
| 40861 | What is this object? |
| 40861 | What is to be the check in the Senate? |
| 40861 | What motives are to restrain them? |
| 40861 | What must be the consequence? |
| 40861 | What of a Revisionary power? |
| 40861 | What qualities are necessary to constitute a check in this case? |
| 40861 | What reason can be assigned why the same rule of representation s^d not prevail in the 2^d branch as in the 1^{st}.? |
| 40861 | What remedy then? |
| 40861 | What then is to be done? |
| 40861 | What too is to become of our treaties-- what of our foreign debts, what of our domestic? |
| 40861 | What were the consequences?, first, enmity on our part, then actual separation. |
| 40861 | When the Tribunitial power had levelled the boundary between the_ patricians_&_ plebeians_, what followed? |
| 40861 | Whence does this proceed? |
| 40861 | Whence then is the national revenue to be drawn? |
| 40861 | Whence then the danger of aristocracy from their influence? |
| 40861 | Whence then the danger of monarchy? |
| 40861 | Where are the sources from whence it is to flow? |
| 40861 | Where do the people look at present for relief from the evils of which they complain? |
| 40861 | Where is the difference, in which branch it begins, if both must concur, in the end? |
| 40861 | Who then are to hold them? |
| 40861 | Why are Counties of the Same States represented in proportion to their numbers? |
| 40861 | Why s^d a Nat^l Gov^t be unpopular? |
| 40861 | Why was America so justly apprehensive of Parliamentary injustice? |
| 40861 | Why was it determined that the Judges should not hold their places by such a tenure? |
| 40861 | Why? |
| 40861 | Why? |
| 40861 | Why? |
| 40861 | Will a Citizen of_ Deleware_ be degraded by becoming a Citizen of the_ United States_? |
| 40861 | Will any one say this would ever be agreed to? |
| 40861 | Will it be the British Gov^t? |
| 40861 | Will it prevent encroachments on the federal authority? |
| 40861 | Will it prevent the violations of the law of nations& of Treaties which if not prevented must involve us in the calamities of foreign wars? |
| 40861 | Will it prevent trespasses of the States on each other? |
| 40861 | Will it secure a good internal legislation& administration to the particular States? |
| 40861 | Will it secure the internal tranquillity of the States themselves? |
| 40861 | Will not our Constituents say? |
| 40861 | Will not the same motives operate in America as elsewhere? |
| 40861 | Will our Executive be able to apply such a remedy? |
| 40861 | Will our honest Constituents be satisfied with metaphysical distinctions? |
| 40861 | Will she be represented in proportion to this amount? |
| 40861 | Will the members of the General Legislature be competent Judges? |
| 40861 | Will the militia march from one State to another, in order to collect the arrears of taxes from the delinquent members of the Republic? |
| 40861 | Will they maintain an army for this purpose? |
| 40861 | Will they, ought they to be satisfied with being told, that the one- third compose the greater number of States? |
| 40861 | Would 30 or 40, million of people submit their fortunes into the hands of a few thousands? |
| 40861 | Would American rights& interests have been safe under an authority thus constituted? |
| 40861 | Would she not be at the mercy of Pennsylvania? |
| 40861 | Would such a scheme be practicable? |
| 40861 | [ A][ A] Quere,? |
| 40861 | and which so far exceeded what they regarded as sufficient? |
| 40861 | are they admitted as property? |
| 40861 | does it afford any substantial remedy whatever? |
| 40861 | does it arise from any particular stipulation in the articles of Confederation? |
| 40861 | does it require 150 of the former to balance 50 of the latter? |
| 40861 | or do we imagine that we no longer need his assistance? |
| 40861 | then why are they not admitted on an equality with White Citizens? |
| 40861 | then why is not other property admitted into the computation? |
| 40861 | was it practicable? |
| 40861 | will each Citizen enjoy under it less liberty or protection? |
| 40861 | will it not be most safely lodged on the side of the Nat^l Gov^t? |