Formation of the Union, 1750-1829Longmans, Green, 1893 - 278 sivua |
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... convention ( 1787 ) , p . 122. 62. Sources of the Constitution , p . 124 . ( 1787 ) , p . 125. - 64 . - -63 . The ... conventions ( 1787 , 1788 ) , p . 130. — 67. Expiration of the Confedera- tion ( 1788 ) , p . 132. - 68 . Was the ...
... convention ( 1787 ) , p . 122. 62. Sources of the Constitution , p . 124 . ( 1787 ) , p . 125. - 64 . - -63 . The ... conventions ( 1787 , 1788 ) , p . 130. — 67. Expiration of the Confedera- tion ( 1788 ) , p . 132. - 68 . Was the ...
Sivu 61
... conventions took their place , and all the col- onies but Georgia somehow chose delegates . The first Continental Congress which assembled in Philadelphia on September 5 , 1774 , was , therefore , a body Congress . without any legal ...
... conventions took their place , and all the col- onies but Georgia somehow chose delegates . The first Continental Congress which assembled in Philadelphia on September 5 , 1774 , was , therefore , a body Congress . without any legal ...
Sivu 62
... conventions , " and sometimes the legislatures themselves , passed resolutions and laid penalties . A more effective measure was open violence against people who persisted in importing , selling , or using British goods or slaves . The ...
... conventions , " and sometimes the legislatures themselves , passed resolutions and laid penalties . A more effective measure was open violence against people who persisted in importing , selling , or using British goods or slaves . The ...
Sivu 74
... conventions , and not the old colonial assemblies ; yet those conventions assumed to exercise the powers of gov- ernment in the colonies , and expected the delegates to report back to them , and to ask for instructions . Never- theless ...
... conventions , and not the old colonial assemblies ; yet those conventions assumed to exercise the powers of gov- ernment in the colonies , and expected the delegates to report back to them , and to ask for instructions . Never- theless ...
Sivu 78
... Convention declared that " the voice of God and of nature demand of the colonies to look to their own political affairs . " In May , 1775 , came the resolutions of a committee of Mecklenburg County , North Carolina . In declaring that ...
... Convention declared that " the voice of God and of nature demand of the colonies to look to their own political affairs . " In May , 1775 , came the resolutions of a committee of Mecklenburg County , North Carolina . In declaring that ...
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Sivu 235 - Let the end be legitimate, let it be within the scope of the Constitution, and all means which are appropriate, which are plainly adapted to that end, which are not prohibited, but consistent with the letter and spirit of the Constitution, are constitutional.
Sivu 178 - ... militia, our best reliance in peace and for the first moments of war, till regulars may relieve them; the supremacy of the civil over the military authority; economy in the public...
Sivu 217 - States, which have no common umpire, must be their own judges, and execute their own decisions.
Sivu 208 - If this bill passes, it is my deliberate opinion that it is virtually a dissolution of this Union; that it will free the States from their moral obligation ; and as it will be the right of all, so it will be the duty of some, definitely to prepare for a separation, amicably, if they can, violently, if they must.
Sivu 167 - I will never send another minister to France without assurances that he will be received, respected, and honored as the representative of a great, free, powerful, and independent nation.
Sivu 79 - Britain, and it is necessary that the exercise of every kind of authority under the said crown should be totally suppressed, and all the powers of government exerted under the authority of the people of the colonies...
Sivu 121 - Congress it is expedient that on the second Monday in May next a convention of delegates, who shall have been appointed by the several States, be held at Philadelphia for the sole and express purpose of revising the articles of Confederation and reporting to Congress and the several legislatures such alterations and provisions therein as shall, when agreed to in Congress and confirmed by the States, render the federal Constitution adequate to the exigencies of government and the preservation of the...
Sivu 114 - Indeed, I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just, and that his justice cannot sleep forever...
Sivu 128 - often and often in the course of the session, and the vicissitudes of my hopes and fears as to its issue, looked at that behind the president without being able to tell whether it was rising or setting. But now at length I have the happiness to know that it is a rising and not a setting sun.
Sivu 166 - Such attempts ought to be repelled with a decision which shall convince France and the world that we are not a degraded people, humiliated under a colonial spirit of fear and sense of inferiority, fitted to be the miserable instruments of foreign influence, and regardless of national honor, character, and interest.