U1: La democracia estadounidense

¿Quién dijo?

"And yet words on a parchment would not be enough to deliver slaves from bondage, or provide men and women of every color and creed their full rights and obligations as citizens of the United States."

• Barack Obama

• Susan B. Anthony

• Frederick Douglass

• James Madison

¿Quién dijo?

"Para ellas, este gobierno no tiene ningún poder legal que derive del consentimiento de los gobernados. Para ellas, este gobierno no es una democracia. No es una república. Es una aborrecible aristocracia: una oligarquía."

• Harriet Tubman

• Andrew Jackson

• Thomas Paine

• Susan B. Anthony

¿Quién dijo?

"Digo con tristeza que existe entre nosotros una gran desigualdad. ¡No estoy incluido en este glorioso aniversario! Su independencia solo muestra la enorme distancia que hay entre nosotros."

• Dekanawidah

• Frederick Douglass

• Barack Obama

• Thomas Jefferson

¿Quién dijo?

"Can we forge against these enemies a grand and global alliance, North and South, East and West, that can assure a more fruitful life for all mankind? Will you join in that historic effort?"

• Barack Obama

• John F. Kennedy

• Andrew Jackson

• Thomas Paine

¿Quién dijo?

"The planter, the farmer, the mechanic, and the laborer... form the great body of the people of the United States, they are the bone and sinew of the country men who love liberty and desire nothing but equal rights and equal laws."

• Susan B. Anthony

• James Madison

• Andrew Jackson

• Thomas Jefferson

¿Quién dijo?

"...a wise and frugal Government, which shall restrain men from injuring one another, shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned."

• Thomas Jefferson

• Susan B. Anthony

• Frederick Douglass

• James Madison

¿Quién dijo?

"...it may well happen that the public voice, pronounced by the representatives of the people, will be more consonant to the public good than if pronounced by the people themselves..."

• John F. Kennedy

• Andrew Jackson

• James Madison

• Barack Obama

¿Quién dijo?

"...that in America THE LAW IS KING. For as in absolute governments the King is law, so in free countries the law ought to be King; and there ought to be no other."

• Thomas Paine

• Barack Obama

• John F. Kennedy

• Dekanawidah

"The Council of the Mohawk shall be divided into three parties as follows: . . . The third party is to listen only to the discussion of the first and second parties and if an error is made or the proceeding is irregular they are to call attention to it..."

• Susan B. Anthony

• James Madison

• John F. Kennedy

• Dekanawidah

¿Quién creía esto?

Un gobierno debe separar los poderes entre partes diferentes

• Susan B. Anthony

• Barack Obama

• Dekanawidah

• John F. Kennedy