History of the United States of America: From the Discovery of the Continent [to 1789], Volumen6D. Appleton, 1885 |
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... TION . IN FIVE BOOKS . 1. - THE CONFEDERATION . CHAPTER I. A RETROSPECT . MOVEMENTS TOWARD UNION . 1643-1781 . Progress of the world by mastery over the forces of nature By a better knowledge of the nature of justice • The laws of ...
... TION . IN FIVE BOOKS . 1. - THE CONFEDERATION . CHAPTER I. A RETROSPECT . MOVEMENTS TOWARD UNION . 1643-1781 . Progress of the world by mastery over the forces of nature By a better knowledge of the nature of justice • The laws of ...
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... tion would be introduced ; a revenue for the expenditure of which congress is not to be accountable to the states would * Sparks , viii . , 367 . + Gilpin , 199 , 216 , 224 , 488 ; Journals of Congress , 4 December 1782 ; Min- utes of ...
... tion would be introduced ; a revenue for the expenditure of which congress is not to be accountable to the states would * Sparks , viii . , 367 . + Gilpin , 199 , 216 , 224 , 488 ; Journals of Congress , 4 December 1782 ; Min- utes of ...
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... tion of the state . The triumph of party shall never induce me to call the abandonment of former principles a forgetting of ancient prejudices , or to pass an amnesty upon measures which have brought my country almost to the verge of ...
... tion of the state . The triumph of party shall never induce me to call the abandonment of former principles a forgetting of ancient prejudices , or to pass an amnesty upon measures which have brought my country almost to the verge of ...
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... tion , for the emperor was compelled , in violation of natural rights , to suffer the Scheldt to be closed . On the twenty - second of February 1783 , Rosencrone , minister of foreign affairs in Denmark , communicated to Franklin " the ...
... tion , for the emperor was compelled , in violation of natural rights , to suffer the Scheldt to be closed . On the twenty - second of February 1783 , Rosencrone , minister of foreign affairs in Denmark , communicated to Franklin " the ...
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... tion , are equally great . All my private letters have teemed with these sentiments , and , whenever this topic has been the subject of conversation , I have endeavored to diffuse and en- force them . No man in the United States is or ...
... tion , are equally great . All my private letters have teemed with these sentiments , and , whenever this topic has been the subject of conversation , I have endeavored to diffuse and en- force them . No man in the United States is or ...
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Página 472 - Heaven itself has ordained; and since the preservation of the sacred fire of liberty, and the destiny of the republican model of government, are justly considered as .deeply, perhaps as finally staked, on the experiment intrusted to the hands of the American people.
Página 218 - Confederation, and moreover to legislate in all cases to which the separate States are incompetent, or in which the harmony of the United States may be interrupted by the exercise of individual legislation ; to negative all laws passed by the several States contravening, in the opinion of the National Legislature, the Articles of Union, or any treaty subsisting under the authority of the Union...
Página 148 - I have done nothing in the late Contest, but what I thought myself indispensably bound to do, by the Duty which I owed to my People. I will be very frank with you. I was the last to consent to the Separation, but the Separation having been made and having become inevitable, I have always said, as I say now, that I would be the first to meet the Friendship of the United States as an independent Power.
Página 106 - With a heart full of love and gratitude, I now take leave of you ; I most devoutly wish that your latter days may be as prosperous and happy as your former ones have been glorious and honorable.
Página 390 - Under the Articles of Confederation each State retained its sovereignty, freedom and independence, and every power, jurisdiction and right not expressly delegated to the United States.
Página 321 - I congratulate you, fellow-citizens, on the approach of the period at which you may interpose your authority constitutionally, to withdraw the citizens of the United States from all further participation in those violations of human rights which have been so long continued on the unoffending inhabitants of Africa, and which the morality, the reputation, and the best interests of our country, have long been eager to proscribe.
Página 374 - That the said report, with the resolutions and letter accompanying the same, be transmitted to the several legislatures, in order to be submitted to a convention of delegates, chosen in each State by the people thereof, in conformity to the resolves of the convention made and provided in that case.
Página 158 - That no man shall be compelled to frequent or support any religious worship, place or ministry whatsoever, nor shall be enforced, restrained, molested, or burthened in his body or goods, nor shall otherwise suffer on account of his religious opinions or belief...
Página 45 - The time shall come, when, free as seas or wind, Unbounded Thames shall flow for all mankind, Whole nations enter with each swelling tide, And seas but join the regions they divide; Earth's distant ends our glory shall behold, And the new world launch forth to seek the old.
Página 365 - On the whole, sir, I cannot help expressing a wish that every member of the Convention, who may still have objections to it, would with me, on this occasion, doubt a little of his own infallibility and, to make manifest our unanimity, put his name to this instrument.