But to use a more modest illustration and nearer home, I observe that in our political elections, where this element, if it appears at all, can only occur in its coarsest form, we sufficiently understand its incomparable rate.
In our political parties, compute the power of badges and emblems.
Fortunate as we are in our political institutions, we have not been less so in other circumstances on which our prosperity and happiness essentially depend.
Perhaps no equal period in our history has been so fruitful of important reforms in our economic and industrial life or so full of significant changes in the spirit and purpose of our political action.
We must frequently take our bearings from these fixed stars of our political firmament if we expect to hold a true course.
We directed a more diligent and careful scrutiny into its provisions, in order to understand fully the nature and character of our political system.
Further on Wells remarks that "this diminishing actuality of our political life is a matter of almost universal comment to-day.
That is just the deepest error of our political thinking--to talk of politics without reference to human beings.
Is this not a contributing factor to the futility and opacity of our political thinking?
Now as to our political relations, the gift of the African does not lie in the direction of political aggrandizement.
Its spirit is the spirit of our law, and its religion is the evangel of our political faith.
These things ought to serve as a lesson to our political rulers.
But during the period we have been considering, they were utterly neglected by our political rulers, who not only thought themselves able to check the growth of opinions, but entirely mistook the very end and object of government.
It is these views, and the extraordinary ability with which they were advocated, which make the appearance of Burke a memorable epoch in our political history.
A hundred pages could easily be devoted to this interesting phase ofour political history, but the details already given will suffice to indicate the nature, scope, and purpose of the Squatter Constitutions of Iowa.
They were the pioneers, the frontiersmen, the squatters--the pathfinders inour political history.
But you are perhaps ready to ask, "What has this to do with the perpetuation of our political institutions?
But it may be asked, Why suppose danger toour political institutions?
Of our political revolution of '76 we are all justly proud.
As a subject for the remarks of the evening, "The Perpetuation of our Political Institutions" is selected.
This was the hazardous situation into which the Democratic managers chose to thrust one of the most momentous pieces of legislation in our political history-the Kansas-Nebraska bill.
All these denominations, with the exception, perhaps, of the Catholics, were organized very much upon the principle of our political institutions.
The subject of the address is "The Perpetuation of our Political Institutions," and the complete text is given in this volume.
But it may be asked, why suppose danger to our political institutions?
It is impossible not to regard the attitude of the two objects of this vast unpopularity as one of the most truly honourable spectacles in our political history.
It should be to our everlasting glory that our political thought in the past, some of our political institutions, parliamentary government, and what not, have had an enormous influence in the world.
This circumstance, the difference in the stages of our political existence, should make us shun the vices which may be politic and even necessary in older states; and endeavor to preserve our manners by being our own standards.
But in another point of view, a foreign education is directly opposite to our political interests, and ought to be discountenanced, if not prohibited.
Therefore, because of our advanced position in that matter, we the more need the recognition of our political equality.
I say the recognition of our political equality, because I believe the equality already exists.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "our political" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
