The Life of Thomas Jefferson, Third President of the United States: With Parts of His Correspondence Never Before Published, and Notices of His Opinions on Questions of Civil Government, National Policy, and Constitutional Law, Svazek 1C. Knight, 1837 - Počet stran: 4 |
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... voted " illegal and oppressive . " They even sent an agent to England expressly to procure its repeal . While the rapid growth of Virginia , and the other English provinces of America presented to England strong tempta- tions to draw a ...
... voted " illegal and oppressive . " They even sent an agent to England expressly to procure its repeal . While the rapid growth of Virginia , and the other English provinces of America presented to England strong tempta- tions to draw a ...
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... voted an address to the King . In these papers they re - asserted the right of laying taxes in Virginia to be exclusively vested in its own Legislature ; insisted on their privilege of petitioning for a redress of grievances , as well ...
... voted an address to the King . In these papers they re - asserted the right of laying taxes in Virginia to be exclusively vested in its own Legislature ; insisted on their privilege of petitioning for a redress of grievances , as well ...
Strana 66
... vote of approbation , and a vote of thanks to the delegates from Virginia . But as to their future measures , the members manifested the difference already adverted to between the sanguine ardour of youth and the cautious spirit of age ...
... vote of approbation , and a vote of thanks to the delegates from Virginia . But as to their future measures , the members manifested the difference already adverted to between the sanguine ardour of youth and the cautious spirit of age ...
Strana 84
... vote being passed , although further observation on it was out of order , he could not refrain from rising and expressing his satisfaction , and concluded by saying , there is but one word , Mr. President , in the paper , which I ...
... vote being passed , although further observation on it was out of order , he could not refrain from rising and expressing his satisfaction , and concluded by saying , there is but one word , Mr. President , in the paper , which I ...
Strana 86
... votes behind Mr. Lee , and four behind Mr. Randolph . The Convention adjourned in September , and assembled at Richmond , for the third time this year , on the 1st of December . After a few days it again transferred its sittings to ...
... votes behind Mr. Lee , and four behind Mr. Randolph . The Convention adjourned in September , and assembled at Richmond , for the third time this year , on the 1st of December . After a few days it again transferred its sittings to ...
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Strana 241 - States, to devise such further provisions as shall appear to them necessary to render the constitution of the federal government adequate to the exigencies of the union...
Strana 611 - Nor have we been wanting in attentions to our British Brethren We have warned them...
Strana 611 - 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 609 - 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 32 - 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 125 - Nothing is more certainly written in the book of fate, than that these people are to be free; nor is it less certain that the two races, equally free, cannot live in the same government. Nature, habit, opinion have drawn indelible lines of distinction between them.
Strana 610 - He has [suffered] * the administration of justice [totally to cease in some of these States] 2 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 87 - Creator hath graciously bestowed upon us, the arms we have been compelled by our enemies to assume, we will, in defiance of every hazard, with unabating firmness and perseverance, employ for the preservation of our liberties — being with one mind resolved to die FREEMEN rather than to live SLAVES.
Strana 259 - I am convinced that those societies (as the Indians) which live without government, enjoy in their general mass an infinitely greater degree of happiness than those who live under the European governments.