The Life of Thomas Jefferson: Author of the Declaration of Independence, and Third President of the United States ...Andrus, Woodruff, & Gauntlett, 1843 - 267 páginas |
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... hundred freemen produce no more profits , no greater surplus for the payment of tax- es , than five hundred slaves . Therefore , the state in which are the laborers called freemen , should be tax- ed no more than that in which are those ...
... hundred freemen produce no more profits , no greater surplus for the payment of tax- es , than five hundred slaves . Therefore , the state in which are the laborers called freemen , should be tax- ed no more than that in which are those ...
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... hundred thousand freemen can maintain no more cattle than one of one hundred thousand slaves : therefore , they have no more of that kind of property ; that a slave may , indeed , from the custom of speech , be more properly called the ...
... hundred thousand freemen can maintain no more cattle than one of one hundred thousand slaves : therefore , they have no more of that kind of property ; that a slave may , indeed , from the custom of speech , be more properly called the ...
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... hundred and twenty - six bills were prepared , from which are derived all the most liberal features of the existing laws of the commonwealth . The share of Mr. Jefferson in this great task was prominent and laborious . To him Virginia ...
... hundred and twenty - six bills were prepared , from which are derived all the most liberal features of the existing laws of the commonwealth . The share of Mr. Jefferson in this great task was prominent and laborious . To him Virginia ...
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... hundred thousand dollars , to Congress , to be raised by tax , it is obvious that we should raise these given sums with greater or less ease , in proportion to the greater or less quantity of money found in circulation among us . I ...
... hundred thousand dollars , to Congress , to be raised by tax , it is obvious that we should raise these given sums with greater or less ease , in proportion to the greater or less quantity of money found in circulation among us . I ...
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... hundred and fifty , and they propose to sink wells within the picket . Of four thousand people , it should be expected , according to the ordinary calcu lations , that one should die every day ; yet in the space of near three months ...
... hundred and fifty , and they propose to sink wells within the picket . Of four thousand people , it should be expected , according to the ordinary calcu lations , that one should die every day ; yet in the space of near three months ...
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