Memoirs, Correspondence, and Private Papers of Thomas Jefferson: Late President of the United States, Volumen3H. Colburn and R. Bentley, 1829 |
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... constitution , from which it appears , they mean to build it from the bottom , confining themselves to nothing in their ancient form , but a King . A declaration of rights , which forms the first chapter of their work , was then ...
... constitution , from which it appears , they mean to build it from the bottom , confining themselves to nothing in their ancient form , but a King . A declaration of rights , which forms the first chapter of their work , was then ...
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... constitution . They decided , a day or two ago , the question , whether they should begin by a declaration of rights , by a great majority in the affirmative . The negatives were of the Clergy , who fear to trust the people with the ...
... constitution . They decided , a day or two ago , the question , whether they should begin by a declaration of rights , by a great majority in the affirmative . The negatives were of the Clergy , who fear to trust the people with the ...
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... constitution . The principal would be , the annex- ing a declaration of rights to satisfy the minds of all , on the subject of their liberties . They waited the arrival of Brown , Delegate from Kentucky , to take up the receiving that ...
... constitution . The principal would be , the annex- ing a declaration of rights to satisfy the minds of all , on the subject of their liberties . They waited the arrival of Brown , Delegate from Kentucky , to take up the receiving that ...
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... constitution had been changed by force , by the reigning sovereign , about one hundred years ago . This subject had been lately revived and discussed in print . The people were at length excited to assemble tumultuously . They sent for ...
... constitution had been changed by force , by the reigning sovereign , about one hundred years ago . This subject had been lately revived and discussed in print . The people were at length excited to assemble tumultuously . They sent for ...
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... constitution has been yet given in . But I can state to you the outlines of what the leading members have in contemplation . The executive power in a hereditary King , with power of dissolving the legislature , and a negative on their ...
... constitution has been yet given in . But I can state to you the outlines of what the leading members have in contemplation . The executive power in a hereditary King , with power of dissolving the legislature , and a negative on their ...
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Página 443 - I have sworn upon the altar of God, eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man.
Página 515 - The Constitution has made no provision for our holding foreign territory, still less for incorporating foreign nations into our Union. The executive in seizing the fugitive occurrence which so much advances the good of their country, have done an act beyond the Constitution. The Legislature in casting behind them metaphysical subtleties, and risking themselves like faithful servants, must ratify and pay for it, and throw themselves on their country for doing for them unauthorized, what we know they...
Página 494 - ... despising wealth in competition with insult or injury, enterprising and energetic as any nation on earth; these circumstances render it impossible that France and the United States can continue long friends, when they meet in so irritable a position.
Página 439 - Let the General Government be reduced to foreign concerns only, and let our affairs be disentangled from those of all other nations, except as to commerce, which the merchants will manage the better, the more they are left free to manage for themselves, and our General Government may be reduced to a very simple organization, and a very unexpensive one ; a few plain duties to be performed by a few servants.
Página 489 - On their part, they have retired into the judiciary as a stronghold. There the remains of federalism are to be preserved and fed from the treasury, and from that battery all the works of republicanism are to be beaten down and erased.
Página 511 - ... 2. His moral doctrines, relating to kindred and friends, were more pure and perfect than those of the most correct of the philosophers, and greatly more so than those of the Jews; and they went far beyond both in inculcating universal philanthropy, not only to kindred and friends, to neighbors and countrymen, but to all mankind, gathering all into one family, under the bonds of love, charity, peace, common wants, and common aids.
Página 53 - I have the honour to be your Excellency's most obedient and most humble servant, JOHN ANDRE.
Página 24 - I set out on this ground, which I suppose to be self-evident, that the earth belongs in usufruct to the living : that the dead have neither powers nor rights over it.
Página 25 - Then I say, the earth belongs to each of these generations during its course, fully and in its own right. The second generation receives it clear of the debts and incumbrances of the first, the third of the second, and so on. For if the first could charge it with a debt, then the earth would belong to the dead and not to the living generation. Then, no generation can contract debts greater than may be paid during the course of its own existence.
Página 210 - ... government is founded — that every one may govern itself according to whatever form it pleases, and change these forms at its own will; and that it may transact its business with foreign nations through whatever organ it thinks proper, whether king, convention, assembly, committee, president, or anything else it may choose. The will of the nation is the only thing essential to be regarded.