Memoirs, Correspondence, and Private Papers of Thomas Jefferson: Late President of the United States, Volumen1H. Colburn and R. Bentley, 1829 |
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... important part of it . VI . Within the body of the Memoir , or referred to as an appendix , are other papers which were thought well entitled to the place they occupy . Among them , are , 1. A paper drawn up in the year 1774 , as " In ...
... important part of it . VI . Within the body of the Memoir , or referred to as an appendix , are other papers which were thought well entitled to the place they occupy . Among them , are , 1. A paper drawn up in the year 1774 , as " In ...
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... important character of the communication , or the general interest in the views of the writer ; or where the whole ... importance , and connection with the subject discuss- ed by the Author , rendered advisable . And where references ...
... important character of the communication , or the general interest in the views of the writer ; or where the whole ... importance , and connection with the subject discuss- ed by the Author , rendered advisable . And where references ...
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... importance , unless sus- pended in their operation till his assent should be obtained ; and , when so suspended , he has utterly neglected to attend to them . He has refused to pass other laws for the accom- modation of large districts ...
... importance , unless sus- pended in their operation till his assent should be obtained ; and , when so suspended , he has utterly neglected to attend to them . He has refused to pass other laws for the accom- modation of large districts ...
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... importance , our interests , our peace required that we should confederate , and that mutual sacrifices should be made to effect a compromise of this diffi- cult question . He was of opinion , the smaller 26 MEMOIRS OF.
... importance , our interests , our peace required that we should confederate , and that mutual sacrifices should be made to effect a compromise of this diffi- cult question . He was of opinion , the smaller 26 MEMOIRS OF.
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... importance ; because it will open to our view future prospects of war and dissension among ourselves . If an equal vote be refused , the smaller states will become vassals to the larger ; and all experience has shewn that the vassals ...
... importance ; because it will open to our view future prospects of war and dissension among ourselves . If an equal vote be refused , the smaller states will become vassals to the larger ; and all experience has shewn that the vassals ...
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Página 6 - 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.
Página 4 - 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 mean time exposed to all the dangers of invasion from without, and convulsions within.
Página 105 - The God who gave us life, gave us liberty at the same time : the hand of force may destroy, but cannot disjoin them.
Página 9 - 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...
Página 7 - We might have been a. free and a great people together; but a communication of grandeur and of freedom, it seems, is below their dignity. Be it so, since they will have it. The road to happiness and to glory is open to us too. We will tread it apart from them, and acquiesce in the necessity which denounces our eternal separation.
Página 3 - Prudence indeed will dictate that governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes ; and accordingly all experience hath shewn that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed.
Página 8 - We, therefore, the representatives of the United States of America, in General Congress assembled, do in the name, and by the authority of the good people of these States, reject and renounce all allegiance and subjection to the Kings of Great Britain and all others who may hereafter claim by, through, or under them; we utterly dissolve all political connection which may heretofore have subsisted between us and the people or Parliament of Great Britain; and, finally, we do assert and declare these...
Página 24 - Almighty God hath created the mind free; that all attempts to influence it by temporal punishments or burthens, or by civil incapacitations, tend only to beget habits of hypocrisy and meanness, and are a departure from the plan of the Holy author of our religion...
Página 7 - They too have been deaf to the voice of justice and of consanguinity, [and when occasions have been given them, by the regular course of their laws, of removing from their councils the disturbers of our harmony, they have, by their free election, reestablished them in power. At this very time, too, they...
Página 7 - 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...