Categoría: Discursos
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Roman Catholic Relief Bill
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en DiscursosIt is now my duty to move your lordships to read this bill a second time, and to explain to your lordships the grounds on which I recommend this measure to your lordships’ attention. I may be under the necessity of requesting a larger portion of your time and attention, upon this occasion, than I…
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First Inaugural Address
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en DiscursosFellow-Citizens: ABOUT to undertake the arduous duties that I have been appointed to perform by the choice of a free people, I avail myself of this customary and solemn occasion to express the gratitude which their confidence inspires and to acknowledge the accountability which my situation enjoins. While the magnitude of their interests convinces me…
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Catholic Emancipation
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en DiscursosNearly the most painful circumstance that could be imposed on a public man, in the performance of a public duty must be when, after long acting with a number of individuals, after proceeding in concurrence with them to the utmost of his power in a particular course of policy, he finds himself called upon, by…
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Fourth Annual Message
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en DiscursosFellow Citizens of the Senate and of the House of Representatives: If the enjoyment in profusion of the bounties of Providence forms a suitable subject of mutual gratulation and grateful acknowledgment, we are admonished at this return of the season when the representatives of the nation are assembled to deliberate upon their concerns to offer…
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Campaign Speech
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en DiscursosMy fellow Americans, the upcoming national elections present a very important choice. We can forge a “true†representative democracy for the first time in history, and be led by our directly elected leaders. Or we can continue to live in an aristocratic republic run by over-educated elitists who are not beholden to the will of…
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A los colombianos
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en DiscursosSIMÓN BOLÍVAR Colombianos: VUESTROS ENEMIGOS amenazan la destrucción de Colombia. Mi deber es salvarla. Catorce años ha que estoy a vuestra cabeza, por la voluntad casi unánime del pueblo. En todos los períodos de gloria y prosperidad para la república, he renunciado el mando supremo con la más pura sinceridad: nada he deseado tanto como…
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The Consolidation of Criminal Laws
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en DiscursosMr. Secretary (Secretary for the Home Department) Peel rose to bring forward his promised motion. He had now, he said, agreeably to that motion, to apply to the House for leave to bring in four bills, having for their object the simplification and consolidation of the statutes relating to the Criminal Laws. The first of…
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Respecting Portugal
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en DiscursosI rise, Sir, for the purpose of making a few observations, not so much in answer to any general arguments, as in reply to two or three particular objections which have been urged against the Address which I have had the honour to propose to the House. In the first place, I frankly admit to…
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Discurso al Congreso Constituyente de Bolivia
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en DiscursosSIMÓN BOLÍVAR ¡Legisladores! Al ofreceros el Proyecto de Constitución para Bolivia, me siento sobrecogido de confusión y timidez, porque estoy persuadido de mi incapacidad para hacer leyes. Cuando yo considero que la sabiduría de todos los siglos no es suficiente para componer una ley fundamental que sea perfecta, y que el más esclarecido Legislador es…
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Renuncia a la dictadura del Perú
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en DiscursosSIMÓN BOLÍVAR LEGISLADORES: hoy es el día del Perú, porque hoy no tiene un dictador. El Congreso salvó la patria, cuando trasmitió al ejército libertador la sublime autoridad que le había confiado al pueblo, para que lo sacase del caos y de la tiranía. El Congreso llenó altamente su deber, dando leyes sabias en la…