Prefatory note. The debates in 1776 on the Declaration of Independence, and on a few of the Articles of Confederation, preserved by Thomas Jefferson. Letters of Mr. Madison preceding the debates of 1783. Debates in the Congress of the Confederation, from November 4, 1782, to June 21, 1783. Letters contemporary with, and subsequent to, the debates of 1783A. Mygatt, 1842 |
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Strana xiv
... dollars for the benefit of literary institutions and for benevolent pur- poses , leaving the residuary net proceeds for the use of his widow . " In a paper written by him , and which it is proposed to annex as a preface to the Debates ...
... dollars for the benefit of literary institutions and for benevolent pur- poses , leaving the residuary net proceeds for the use of his widow . " In a paper written by him , and which it is proposed to annex as a preface to the Debates ...
Strana xvii
... dollars , the manuscripts of the late Mr. MADISON , referred to in a letter from Mrs. MADISON , to the President , dated 15th November , 1836 , and communicated in his message of the 6th December ; conceding to Mrs. MADISON the right to ...
... dollars , the manuscripts of the late Mr. MADISON , referred to in a letter from Mrs. MADISON , to the President , dated 15th November , 1836 , and communicated in his message of the 6th December ; conceding to Mrs. MADISON the right to ...
Strana xxi
... dollars was appropriated for the purchase of the manuscripts . In accordance with this law , Mrs. MADISON , on the 1st April , 1837 , delivered to the Secretary of State , for the United States , the manuscripts described in her ...
... dollars was appropriated for the purchase of the manuscripts . In accordance with this law , Mrs. MADISON , on the 1st April , 1837 , delivered to the Secretary of State , for the United States , the manuscripts described in her ...
Strana xxiii
... dollars be appropriated for that purpose out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise ap- propriated . " On the 28th January , 1839 , Mr. WALL of New Jersey , reported to the Senate , a contract made in pursuance of the act of ...
... dollars be appropriated for that purpose out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise ap- propriated . " On the 28th January , 1839 , Mr. WALL of New Jersey , reported to the Senate , a contract made in pursuance of the act of ...
Strana 59
... dollars in specie . The principal part of the requisition consists of specific articles , the resi- due of specie or the new emissions , receivable as spe- cie . If the States fulfil this plan punctually , there is no doubt that we ...
... dollars in specie . The principal part of the requisition consists of specific articles , the resi- due of specie or the new emissions , receivable as spe- cie . If the States fulfil this plan punctually , there is no doubt that we ...
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Strana 376 - All charges of war, and all other expenses that shall be incurred for the common defence or general welfare, and allowed by the United States, in Congress assembled, shall be defrayed out of a common treasury...
Strana 21 - Naturalization of Foreigners; refusing to pass others to encourage their migrations hither, and raising the conditions of new Appropriations of Lands. He has obstructed the Administration of Justice, by refusing his Assent to Laws for establishing Judiciary powers. He has made Judges dependent on his Will alone, for the tenure of their offices, and the amount and payment of their salaries.
Strana 21 - He has [suffered] the administration of justice [totally to cease in some of these states] refusing his assent to laws for establishing judiciary powers. He has made [our] judges dependent on his will alone for the tenure of their offices and the amount and payment of their salaries. He has erected a multitude of new offices [by a self-assumed power] and sent hither swarms of new officers to harass our people and eat out their substance.
Strana 26 - At this very time too, they are permitting their chief magistrate to send over not only soldiers of our common blood, but Scotch and foreign mercenaries to invade and destroy us.
Strana 25 - We have reminded them of the circumstances of our emigration and settlement here, no one of which could warrant so strange a pretension; that these were effected at the expense of our own blood and treasure, unassisted by the wealth or the strength of Great Britain; that in constituting indeed our several forms of government, we had adopted one common king, thereby laying a foundation for perpetual league and amity with them; but that submission to their parliament was no part of our Constitution...
Strana 24 - And that this assemblage of horrors might want no fact of distinguished die, he is now exciting those very people to rise in arms among us, and to purchase that liberty of which he has deprived them, by murdering the people on whom he also obtruded them: thus paying off former crimes committed against the LIBERTIES of one people with crimes which he urges them to commit against the LIVES of another...
Strana 25 - Nor have we been wanting in attentions to our British Brethren We have warned them from Time to Time of attempts by their Legislature to extend an unwarrantable Jurisdiction over us...
Strana 9 - Congress should declare that these United colonies are, and of right ought to be, free and independent states, that they are absolved from all allegiance to the British crown, and that all political connection between them and the state of Great Britain is, and ought to be, totally dissolved; that measures should be immediately taken for procuring the assistance of foreign powers, and a Confederation be formed to bind the colonies more closely together.
Strana 9 - DO, in the name and by the authority of the good people of these colonies, solemnly publish and declare, that these united colonies, are, and of right ought to be, free and independent states ; that they are absolved from all allegiance to the British crown, and that all political connexion between them and the state of Great Britain, is and ought to be totally dissolved...