Biography of the Signers to the Declaration of Independence, Svazek 7R. W. Pomeroy, 1827 |
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... party ; nor would it be proper in him to obtrude the peculiar opinions he may entertain . It is his duty alone to state their existence , with the powerful influence that attended them , and to ask from his country , that , all pre ...
... party ; nor would it be proper in him to obtrude the peculiar opinions he may entertain . It is his duty alone to state their existence , with the powerful influence that attended them , and to ask from his country , that , all pre ...
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... party , such a scheme could not but appear as absurd as it was danger- ous . In Mr. Jefferson it found a ready and successful opponent at the time , and he has devoted to its consider- ation and censure , a few pages of his later works ...
... party , such a scheme could not but appear as absurd as it was danger- ous . In Mr. Jefferson it found a ready and successful opponent at the time , and he has devoted to its consider- ation and censure , a few pages of his later works ...
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... party . Mr. Newton , the bearer of this , and to whom its contents are communicated in confidence , will provide men ... parties entitled to partici- pate in the reward . You know how necessary profound secrecy is in this business , even ...
... party . Mr. Newton , the bearer of this , and to whom its contents are communicated in confidence , will provide men ... parties entitled to partici- pate in the reward . You know how necessary profound secrecy is in this business , even ...
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... party shall have been convicted to have been personally guilty . " When the report of the committee was presented to congress , these words were however struck out . . On the seventh of May , congress resolved that a minis- ter ...
... party shall have been convicted to have been personally guilty . " When the report of the committee was presented to congress , these words were however struck out . . On the seventh of May , congress resolved that a minis- ter ...
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... party , will waste their blood and money to elect a person who must go out at the end of a short period . The power of removing every fourth year by the vote of the people , is a power which they will not exercise ; and if they were ...
... party , will waste their blood and money to elect a person who must go out at the end of a short period . The power of removing every fourth year by the vote of the people , is a power which they will not exercise ; and if they were ...
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Strana 102 - Still one thing more, fellow-citizens, a wise and frugal government, which shall restrain men from injuring one another, shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned.
Strana 103 - Equal and exact justice to all men, of whatever state or persuasion, religious or political; peace, commerce, and honest friendship with all nations, entangling alliances with none; the support of the State governments in all their rights, as the most competent administrations for our domestic concerns and the surest bulwarks against anti-republican tendencies; the preservation of the general government in its whole constitutional vigor, as the sheet anchor of our peace at home and safety abroad...
Strana 104 - These principles form the bright constellation which has gone before us, and guided our steps through an age of revolution and reformation. The wisdom of our sages and blood of our heroes have been devoted to their attainment.
Strana 35 - 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...
Strana 103 - ... freedom of religion; freedom of the press, and freedom of person under the protection of the habeas corpus, and trial by juries impartially selected. These principles form the bright constellation which has gone before us and guided our steps through an age of revolution and reformation.
Strana 33 - 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 309 - That the inhabitants of the English colonies in North America, by the immutable laws of nature, the principles of the English Constitution, and the several charters or compacts, have the following rights : Resolved, NCD 1.
Strana 28 - But when a long train of abuses and usurpations [begun at a distinguished period and] pursuing invariably the same object, evinces a design to reduce them under absolute despotism, it is their right, it is their duty to throw off such government, and to provide new guards for their future security.
Strana 306 - Whereas, since the close of the last war, the British parliament, claiming a power, of right, to bind the people of America by statutes in all cases whatsoever, hath, in some acts, expressly imposed taxes on them, and in others, under various pretences, but in fact for the purpose of raising a revenue, hath imposed rates and duties payable in these colonies...