Prefatory note. The debates in 1776 on the Declaration of Independence, and on a few of the Articles of Confederation, preserved by Thomas Jefferson. Letters of Mr. Madison preceding the debates of 1783. Debates in the Congress of the Confederation, from November 4, 1782, to June 21, 1783. Letters contemporary with, and subsequent to, the debates of 1783A. Mygatt, 1842 |
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... immediately after the meeting of Con- gress the President transmitted the preceding correspondence to the Senate and House of Representatives with the following message : WASHINGTON , December 6 , 1836 . " To the Senate and House of ...
... immediately after the meeting of Con- gress the President transmitted the preceding correspondence to the Senate and House of Representatives with the following message : WASHINGTON , December 6 , 1836 . " To the Senate and House of ...
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... immediately taken for procuring the assistance of foreign powers , and a Confederation be formed to bind the Colonies more closely together . The House being obliged to attend at that time to some other business , the proposition was ...
... immediately taken for procuring the assistance of foreign powers , and a Confederation be formed to bind the Colonies more closely together . The House being obliged to attend at that time to some other business , the proposition was ...
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... immediately resolved them- selves , and passed that day and Monday the tenth , in debating the subject . It was argued by Wilson , Robert R. Livingston , E. Rutledge , Dickenson , and others : That , though they were friends to the ...
... immediately resolved them- selves , and passed that day and Monday the tenth , in debating the subject . It was argued by Wilson , Robert R. Livingston , E. Rutledge , Dickenson , and others : That , though they were friends to the ...
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... immediately loses all attachment and sympathy with his former fellow - slaves . We have enclosed to the Governor a copy of an act of the Legislature of Connecticut , ceding some of their territorial claims to the United States , which ...
... immediately loses all attachment and sympathy with his former fellow - slaves . We have enclosed to the Governor a copy of an act of the Legislature of Connecticut , ceding some of their territorial claims to the United States , which ...
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... immediately interested . Both my principles and my instructions will determine me to oppose it . Virginia , and the United States in general , are too deeply inter- ested in the subject of controversy to give it up , as long as there is ...
... immediately interested . Both my principles and my instructions will determine me to oppose it . Virginia , and the United States in general , are too deeply inter- ested in the subject of controversy to give it up , as long as there is ...
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376 ページ - 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...
21 ページ - Naturalization of Foreigners; refusing to pass others to encourage their migrations hither, and raising the conditions of new Appropriations of Lands. He has obstructed the Administration of Justice, by refusing his Assent to Laws for establishing Judiciary powers. He has made Judges dependent on his Will alone, for the tenure of their offices, and the amount and payment of their salaries.
21 ページ - He has [suffered] the administration of justice [totally to cease in some of these states] refusing his assent to laws for establishing judiciary powers. He has made [our] judges dependent on his will alone for the tenure of their offices and the amount and payment of their salaries. He has erected a multitude of new offices [by a self-assumed power] and sent hither swarms of new officers to harass our people and eat out their substance.
26 ページ - At this very time too, they are permitting their chief magistrate to send over not only soldiers of our common blood, but Scotch and foreign mercenaries to invade and destroy us.
25 ページ - We have reminded them of the circumstances of our emigration and settlement here, no one of which could warrant so strange a pretension; that these were effected at the expense of our own blood and treasure, unassisted by the wealth or the strength of Great Britain; that in constituting indeed our several forms of government, we had adopted one common king, thereby laying a foundation for perpetual league and amity with them; but that submission to their parliament was no part of our Constitution...
24 ページ - And that this assemblage of horrors might want no fact of distinguished die, he is now exciting those very people to rise in arms among us, and to purchase that liberty of which he has deprived them, by murdering the people on whom he also obtruded them: thus paying off former crimes committed against the LIBERTIES of one people with crimes which he urges them to commit against the LIVES of another...
25 ページ - 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...
9 ページ - Congress should declare that these United colonies are, and of right ought to be, free and independent states, that they are absolved from all allegiance to the British crown, and that all political connection between them and the state of Great Britain is, and ought to be, totally dissolved; that measures should be immediately taken for procuring the assistance of foreign powers, and a Confederation be formed to bind the colonies more closely together.
9 ページ - DO, in the name and by the authority of the good people of these colonies, solemnly publish and declare, that these united colonies, are, and of right ought to be, free and independent states ; that they are absolved from all allegiance to the British crown, and that all political connexion between them and the state of Great Britain, is and ought to be totally dissolved...