HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES FROM THE DISCOVERY OF THE AMERICAN CONTINENT1856 |
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... civil list , 176 - Affair of Wilkes , 178 - Grenville prepares to pro- pose the Stamp Act , 179 - Consents to defer it for a year , 182 - Offers boun- ties for colonial hemp , 183 - Favors the trade in rice , 184 - Concedes the whale ...
... civil list , 176 - Affair of Wilkes , 178 - Grenville prepares to pro- pose the Stamp Act , 179 - Consents to defer it for a year , 182 - Offers boun- ties for colonial hemp , 183 - Favors the trade in rice , 184 - Concedes the whale ...
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... civil , 234 - Grenville moves for a stamp tax , 236 - Speeches of Beckford , Jackson , 238 - Of Barre and Charles Townshend , 239 - Decision of the House of Com- mons , 242 — The Stamp Bill brought in , 243 - Debate on receiving ...
... civil , 234 - Grenville moves for a stamp tax , 236 - Speeches of Beckford , Jackson , 238 - Of Barre and Charles Townshend , 239 - Decision of the House of Com- mons , 242 — The Stamp Bill brought in , 243 - Debate on receiving ...
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... civil con- dition . To heal the conflict of franchises in the sev- eral provinces of his realm , he planned a general code , of which the faults are chiefly due to the narrowness of the lawyers of his day . His ear was open to the ...
... civil con- dition . To heal the conflict of franchises in the sev- eral provinces of his realm , he planned a general code , of which the faults are chiefly due to the narrowness of the lawyers of his day . His ear was open to the ...
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... civil and criminal justice ; so that the 1763 magistrates were triply independent , being themselves wealthy , holding their office of judges as a property , and being irremovable . The high courts of justice , or parliaments as they ...
... civil and criminal justice ; so that the 1763 magistrates were triply independent , being themselves wealthy , holding their office of judges as a property , and being irremovable . The high courts of justice , or parliaments as they ...
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... civil establishment , was the creature of parliament ; a statute enacted the articles of its creed , as well as its book of prayer ; it was not even in- trusted with a co - ordinate power to reform its own abuses ; any attempt to have ...
... civil establishment , was the creature of parliament ; a statute enacted the articles of its creed , as well as its book of prayer ; it was not even in- trusted with a co - ordinate power to reform its own abuses ; any attempt to have ...
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Términos y frases comunes
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Página 395 - At the same time let the sovereign authority of this country over the colonies be asserted in as strong terms as can be devised, and be made to extend to every point of legislation, that we may bind their trade, confine their manufactures, and exercise every power whatsoever, except that of taking their money out of their pockets without their consent.
Página 75 - Britain; and that the King's Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords spiritual and temporal and Commons of Great Britain in Parliament assembled, had, hath and of right ought to have, full power and authority to make laws and statutes of sufficient force and validity to bind the colonies and people of America, subjects of the Crown of Great Britain in all cases whatsoever.
Página 394 - In such a cause, your success would be hazardous. America, if she fell, would fall like the strong man. She would embrace the pillars of the state, and pull down the constitution along with her.
Página 391 - The gentleman tells us, America is obstinate; America is almost in open rebellion. I rejoice that America has resisted. Three millions of people, so dead to all the feelings of liberty as voluntarily to submit to be slaves, would have been fit instruments to make slaves of the rest.
Página 4 - tis rough and narrow, And winds with short turns down the precipice ; And in its depth there is a mighty rock, Which has, from unimaginable years, Sustained itself with terror and with toil Over a gulf, and with the agony With which it clings seems slowly coming down...
Página 345 - You have rights antecedent to all earthly government ; rights that cannot be repealed or restrained by human laws ; rights derived from the Great Legislator of the Universe.
Página 395 - Be to her faults a little blind Be to her virtues very kind." Upon the whole, I will beg leave to tell the house what is my opinion. It is, that the stamp act be repealed absolutely, totally, and immediately.
Página 384 - House to tax America, I was ill in bed. If I could have endured to have been carried in my bed, so great was the agitation of my mind for the consequences, I would have solicited some kind hand to have laid me down on this floor, to have borne my testimony against it.
Página 385 - Great Britain, give and grant to Your Majesty, what? Our own property? No. We give and grant to Your Majesty, the property of Your Majesty's Commons of America.
Página 385 - House. I would fain know by whom an American is represented here ? Is he represented by any knight of the shire, in any county in this kingdom ? Would to God that respectable representation...