<span>Alexis de Tocqueville observed American democracy and compared it to the failure of the French revolution observing that centralized government prevented the protection of individual rights especially when the question of inheritance split estates among individuals rather than preserving estates as the French system dictated.</span>
The attack on Pearl Harbor
Theodore Roosevelt often said that one of his greatest accomplishments as President was preserving and creating the national park system, since this saved a great amount of land from potential private takeover.
I would assume it means “nothing”, “having nothing” or “without”.
"From 1892 to 1954, over twelve million immigrants entered the United States through the portal of Ellis Island, a small island in New York Harbor. Ellis Island is located in the upper bay just off the New Jersey coast, within the shadow of the Statue of Liberty."
Source: www.libertyellisfoundation.org/ellis-island<span>-history</span>