The Writings of Thomas Jefferson: 1760-1775G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1892 |
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Strana xiv
... executive and legislative departments should be beyond reciprocal influence ; yet , when president , his interference in the latter to an extent which led to a stinging rebuke on the floor of Congress in open debate . His dread of a ...
... executive and legislative departments should be beyond reciprocal influence ; yet , when president , his interference in the latter to an extent which led to a stinging rebuke on the floor of Congress in open debate . His dread of a ...
Strana xviii
... people , both by grants , which interposed barriers to the direct delegation of power from the people to the executive , judiciary , and one of the legislative branches , and by clauses purposely worded xviii INTRODUCTION .
... people , both by grants , which interposed barriers to the direct delegation of power from the people to the executive , judiciary , and one of the legislative branches , and by clauses purposely worded xviii INTRODUCTION .
Strana xxiv
... executive government by a committee of Congress - an attempt not then realized , but which was later in an elaborated form to be again proposed by Jefferson , to be tried , and to result in failure . In the Congress of 1776 he drafted ...
... executive government by a committee of Congress - an attempt not then realized , but which was later in an elaborated form to be again proposed by Jefferson , to be tried , and to result in failure . In the Congress of 1776 he drafted ...
Strana xxvi
... executive , and Jefferson , who achieved reputation by his philosophic mind and pen , and who himself realized his lack of ability in admin- -istration , found himself of little use in such a body . Pleading family and other reasons ...
... executive , and Jefferson , who achieved reputation by his philosophic mind and pen , and who himself realized his lack of ability in admin- -istration , found himself of little use in such a body . Pleading family and other reasons ...
Strana xxvii
Thomas Jefferson Paul Leicester Ford. and executive had been elected , but courts and laws had fallen with the royal ... executive position , Jefferson was out of his element . Nothing was called for or came from his pen but official ...
Thomas Jefferson Paul Leicester Ford. and executive had been elected , but courts and laws had fallen with the royal ... executive position , Jefferson was out of his element . Nothing was called for or came from his pen but official ...
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Strana 345 - Are not my days few? cease then, And let me alone, that I may take comfort a little, Before I go whence I shall not return, Even to the land of darkness and the shadow of death; A land of darkness, as darkness itself; And of the shadow of death, without any order, And where the light is as darkness.
Strana 368 - And if any mischief follow, then thou shalt give life for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot, burning for burning, wound for wound, stripe for stripe.
Strana 41 - 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, which shall be supplied by the several states...
Strana 442 - The abolition of domestic slavery is the great object of desire in those colonies, where it was, unhappily, introduced in their infant state. But previous to the enfranchisement of the slaves we have, it is necessary to exclude all further importations from Africa.
Strana 36 - 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 36 - Determined to keep open a market where MEN should be bought and sold, he has prostituted his negative for suppressing every legislative attempt to prohibit or to restrain this execrable commerce.
Strana 34 - He has refused for a long time, after such dissolutions, to cause others to be elected, whereby the legislative powers, incapable of annihilation, have returned to the people at large for their exercise, the State remaining in the meantime exposed to all the dangers of invasion from without and convulsions within.
Strana 449 - The God who gave us life, gave us liberty at the same time : the hand of force may destroy, but cannot disjoin them.
Strana 36 - 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 37 - 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...