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characteristics belong to various other nations, and if, moreover, by it is designated your political condition and the laws and customs by which you are governed, there is no reason to take exception to the name. But if this is to be so understood that the doctrines which have been adverted to above are not only indicated, but exalted, there can be no manner of doubt that our venerable brethren, the bishops of
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It was more about cuddling up to the state, rather than keeping apart. But since the whole idea was a vague
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I don't know if they actually teach it, but in practice, they always tried to do it whenever they could - from the conflicts with the antique Roman
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Has anyone read the beginning of this article. I quote "Coined in the nineteenth century, in Roman
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Since the US does not and has never supported absolute freedom of the press, we've got a red flag to start off. We've got another because what the
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From the foregoing it is manifest, beloved son, that we are not able to give approval to those views which, in their collective sense, are called by some "Americanism." But if by this name are to be understood certain endowments of mind which belong to the
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