Memoir, Correspondence, and Miscellanies from the Papers of T. Jefferson, Svazky 1–2F. Carr & Company, 1829 |
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Strana 5
... thought that the appointment of a day of general fasting and prayer , would be most likely to call up and alarm their attention . No example of such a solem- nity had existed since the days of our distresses in the war of '55 , since ...
... thought that the appointment of a day of general fasting and prayer , would be most likely to call up and alarm their attention . No example of such a solem- nity had existed since the days of our distresses in the war of '55 , since ...
Strana 22
... thought it the best mode which we could adopt , with one exception only : he observed that negroes are property , and as such , cannot be dis- tinguished from the lands or personalities held in those states where there are few slaves ...
... thought it the best mode which we could adopt , with one exception only : he observed that negroes are property , and as such , cannot be dis- tinguished from the lands or personalities held in those states where there are few slaves ...
Strana 25
... to the number of its inhabitants . Dr. Franklin thought , that the votes should be so proportioned in all cases . He took notice that the Delaware counties had bound VOL . I. 4 up their delegates to disagree to this article . He 25.
... to the number of its inhabitants . Dr. Franklin thought , that the votes should be so proportioned in all cases . He took notice that the Delaware counties had bound VOL . I. 4 up their delegates to disagree to this article . He 25.
Strana 26
... thought the prediction reversed in event , and that Jonas had swallowed the whale ; for the Scotch had in fact got possession of the government , and gave laws to the English . He reprobated the original agreement of Congress to vote by ...
... thought the prediction reversed in event , and that Jonas had swallowed the whale ; for the Scotch had in fact got possession of the government , and gave laws to the English . He reprobated the original agreement of Congress to vote by ...
Strana 28
... thought , that taxation should be in proportion to wealth , but that representation should accord with the number of freemen . That government is a collection or result of the wills of all that if any government could speak the will of ...
... thought , that taxation should be in proportion to wealth , but that representation should accord with the number of freemen . That government is a collection or result of the wills of all that if any government could speak the will of ...
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Strana 17 - He has endeavored to prevent the population of these States; for that purpose obstructing the Laws for 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. He has...
Strana 437 - I never submitted the whole system of my opinions to the creed of any party of men whatever, in religion, in philosophy, in politics or in anything else, where I was capable of thinking for myself. Such an addiction, is the last degradation of a free and moral agent . If I could not go to heaven but with a party, I would not go there at all.
Strana 18 - He has constrained our fellow citizens taken captive on the high seas, to bear arms against their country, to become the executioners of their friends and brethren, or to fall themselves by their hands.
Strana 19 - He has waged cruel war against human nature itself, violating its most sacred rights of life and liberty in the persons of a distant people who never offended him, captivating and carrying them into slavery in another hemisphere, or to incur miserable death in their transportation thither.
Strana 426 - ... but if any officer shall break his parole, or any other prisoner shall escape from the limits of his cantonment, after they shall have been designated to him, such individual officer or other prisoner shall forfeit so much of the benefit of this article as provides for his enlargement on parole or cantonment.
Strana 272 - First the omission of a bill of rights providing clearly and without the aid of sophisms for freedom of religion, freedom of the press, protection against standing armies, restriction against monopolies, the eternal and unremitting force of the habeas corpus laws, and trials by jury in all matters of fact triable by the laws of the land and not by the law of Nations.
Strana 85 - I hold it that a little rebellion now and then is a good thing, and as necessary in the political world as storms in the physical.
Strana 425 - If War should arise between the two Contracting Parties, the merchants of either country then residing in the other, shall be allowed to remain nine months to collect their debts and settle their affairs, and may depart freely, carrying off all their effects, without molestation or hindrance...
Strana 274 - The late rebellion in Massachusetts has given more alarm, than I think it should have done. Calculate that one rebellion in...
Strana 378 - ... or to others of the same nation. But if they be not sent back within two months, to be counted from the day of their arrest, they shall be set at liberty, and shall be no more arrested for the same cause ARTICLE THIRTIETH.