The Diplomatic Correspondence of the United States of America: From the Signing of the Definitive Treaty of Peace, 10th September, 1783, to the Adoption of the Constitution, March 4, 1789. Being the Letters of the Presidents of Congress, the Secretary for Foreign Affairs--American Ministers at Foreign Courts, Foreign Ministers Near Congress--reports of Committees of Congress, and Reports of the Secretary for Foreign Affairs on Various Letters and Communications; Together with Letters from Individuals on Public Affairs, Volumen3F. P. Blair, 1833 |
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... taken to obtain the continuance of the re- duction of duties on whale oil . Enclosures accom- panying the preceding letter : From T. Barclay to Messrs . Adams and Jefferson . Cadiz , May 23d , 1786 , ( 79. ) From J. Lamb to T. Jefferson ...
... taken to obtain the continuance of the re- duction of duties on whale oil . Enclosures accom- panying the preceding letter : From T. Barclay to Messrs . Adams and Jefferson . Cadiz , May 23d , 1786 , ( 79. ) From J. Lamb to T. Jefferson ...
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... taken by Admiral Paul Jones and sent into Norway . That officer was delegated to arrange the affair . Mr. Jefferson is in possession of full powers on that subject ; but the commission for forming treaties of amity and commerce has ...
... taken by Admiral Paul Jones and sent into Norway . That officer was delegated to arrange the affair . Mr. Jefferson is in possession of full powers on that subject ; but the commission for forming treaties of amity and commerce has ...
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... taken place , which relate to mat- ters within our instructions , and with persons , whose opinions deserve to have some weight , I will take the liberty of stating them . In a conversation with an an- cient and respectable merchant of ...
... taken place , which relate to mat- ters within our instructions , and with persons , whose opinions deserve to have some weight , I will take the liberty of stating them . In a conversation with an an- cient and respectable merchant of ...
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... taken in the affair , which I think reflects much honor , on Mr. Carmichael's influence and attention . To show you at once the state in which I find the busi- ness with Morocco situated on my arrival here , I send you a copy of a ...
... taken in the affair , which I think reflects much honor , on Mr. Carmichael's influence and attention . To show you at once the state in which I find the busi- ness with Morocco situated on my arrival here , I send you a copy of a ...
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... taken towards fitting it out . Our people , who were carried into Algiers , have behaved with the utmost decorum , and were made extremely happy by the arrival of Mr. Lamb . To the above I have but little to add , but that the truce ...
... taken towards fitting it out . Our people , who were carried into Algiers , have behaved with the utmost decorum , and were made extremely happy by the arrival of Mr. Lamb . To the above I have but little to add , but that the truce ...
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Página 346 - I like much the general idea of framing a government which should go on of itself, peaceably, without needing continual recurrence to the State legislatures. I like the organization of the government into legislative, judiciary, and executive. I like the power given the legislature to levy taxes ; and for that reason solely, I approve of the greater House being chosen by the people directly.
Página 351 - When we get piled upon one another in large cities, as in Europe, we shall become corrupt as in Europe, and go to eating one another as they do there.
Página 348 - Let me add, that a bill of rights is what the people are entitled to against every government on earth, general or particular; and what no just government should refuse, or rest on inference.
Página 346 - I am captivated by the compromise of the opposite claims of the great and little States, of the latter to equal, and the former to proportional influence. I am much pleased, too, with the substitution of the method of voting by persons, instead of that of voting by States; and I like the negative given to the Executive, with a third of either house; though I should have liked it better, had the judiciary been associated for that purpose, or invested with a similar and separate power.
Página 338 - What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time, with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
Página 347 - ... opposed by strong inferences from the body of the instrument, as well as from the omission of the clause of our present confederation which had declared that in express terms.
Página 488 - They shall be exempt from all personal service, from soldiers' billets, militia, watch, guard, guardianship, trusteeship, as well as from all duties, taxes, impositions and charges whatsoever, except on the estate real and personal of which they may be the proprietors or possessors, which shall be subject to the taxes imposed on the estates of all other individuals: And in all other instances they shall be subject to the laws of the land as the natives are. Those...
Página 140 - If there be a danger that our payments may not be punctual, it might be better that the discontents which would thence arise should be transferred from a court, of whose good will we have so much need, to the breasts of a private company.
Página 347 - First the omission of a bill of rights providing clearly and without the aid of sophisms for freedom of religion, freedom of the press, protection against standing armies, restriction against monopolies, the eternal and unremitting force of the habeas corpus laws, and trials by jury in all matters of fact triable by the laws of the land and not by the law of Nations.
Página 349 - I do not pretend to decide what would be the best method of procuring the establishment of the manifold good things in this Constitution, and of getting rid of the bad. Whether by adopting it, in hopes of future amendment; or after it...