“The constitutionality and propriety of the Federal Government assuming to enter into a novel and vast field of legislation, namely, that of providing for the care and support of all those ... who by any form of calamity become fit objects of public philanthropy. ... I cannot find any authority in the Constitution for making the Federal Government the great almoner of public charity throughout the United States. To do so would, in my judgment, be contrary to the letter and spirit of the Constitution and subversive of the whole theory upon which the Union of these States is founded.” StatesWholeGovernmentCareFormSpiritUnitedPowerUnited StatesSupportNovelFieldsObjectsTheoryFitAuthorityJudgmentLettersConstitutionAssumingUnionsCharityContraryWelfareProvidingPhilanthropyLegislationFederal GovernmentCalamitySubversivePropriety Author:Franklin Pierce
“Beneficial in theory, so-called free trade agreements far too often have been detrimental to the United States economy and the manufacturing sector that forms its central pillar.” Has BeensStatesFormUnitedUnited StatesEconomyTheoryTradeAgreementBeneficialManufacturingPillarsFree TradeDetrimentalTrade AgreementsUnited States Economy Author:Dan Kildee
“Finding Mecca in America weaves social theory and concrete ethnography into a significant contribution on Muslims in the United States, illuminating broader questions about the integration of minority and immigrant groups along the way. This is an important work and a joy to read.” WayImportantStatesAmericaJoySocialUnitedUnited StatesGroupsTheoryFindingsSignificantContributionMinoritiesImmigrantsConcreteIntegrationIlluminatingMeccaImportant WorkSocial TheoryEthnography Author:Eboo Patel
“Defying History and Theory: The United States as the 'Last Remaining Superpower,'” StatesLastsUnitedUnited StatesTheorySuperpowerDefying Author:Josef Joffe
“The government of the United States, under Lyndon Johnson, proposes to concern itself over the quality of American life. And this is something very new in the political theory of free nations. The quality of life has heretofore depended on the quality of the human beings who gave tone to that life, and they were its priests and its poets, not its bureaucrats.” HumansStatesGovernmentPoliticalNationsHuman BeingsUnitedQualityUnited StatesPoetTheoryConcernTonePriestsProposeQuality Of LifeJohnsonBureaucratsAmerican LifePolitical Theory Author:William F. Buckley, Jr.
“We know that acid rain has had no significant environmental effect on trees or forests in the United States... It is based on popular myths and half-baked theories.” KnowsStatesUnitedHalfUnited StatesTreeEffectsTheoryRainEnvironmentalMythSignificantForestsAcidAcid Rain Author:Haley Barbour