A Biography of the Signers of the Declaration of Independence: And of Washington and Patrick Henry. With an Appendix, Containing the Constitution of the United States and Other Documents, 第 1 巻J. Dobson, and Thomas, Cowperthwait & Company, 1839 - 354 ページ |
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... committees of correspondence throughout the colonies , was devised by him in the early part of 1773 , and proved eminently useful in producing unity of sentiment and concert of action among the patriots . About that time , he wrote and ...
... committees of correspondence throughout the colonies , was devised by him in the early part of 1773 , and proved eminently useful in producing unity of sentiment and concert of action among the patriots . About that time , he wrote and ...
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... committee , which re- ported an answer , drawn by the author of the declaration of inde- pendence , similar , in its main features , to that much admired docu- ment , which was immediately adopted . The ball of resistance was put in ...
... committee , which re- ported an answer , drawn by the author of the declaration of inde- pendence , similar , in its main features , to that much admired docu- ment , which was immediately adopted . The ball of resistance was put in ...
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... committee appointed to form a plan of territorial government for the extensive regions of the then " far west . " True to his favourite prin- ciple of finally emancipating the sable African , he introduced a clause prohibiting slavery ...
... committee appointed to form a plan of territorial government for the extensive regions of the then " far west . " True to his favourite prin- ciple of finally emancipating the sable African , he introduced a clause prohibiting slavery ...
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... committees of that body , and was uniformly chairman . He was also elected speaker , but the governor , who was jealous of his liberal principles , put a veto upon his appointment . His intelligence had led him to investigate the laws ...
... committees of that body , and was uniformly chairman . He was also elected speaker , but the governor , who was jealous of his liberal principles , put a veto upon his appointment . His intelligence had led him to investigate the laws ...
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... committee was appointed , at the head of which were Hancock and Samuel Adams , instructed to request the governor to remove the troops from the town . He at first refused , but finding , under exist- ing circumstances , that discretion ...
... committee was appointed , at the head of which were Hancock and Samuel Adams , instructed to request the governor to remove the troops from the town . He at first refused , but finding , under exist- ing circumstances , that discretion ...
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20 ページ - ... equal and exact justice to all men, of whatever state or persuasion, religious or political; peace, commerce, and honest friendship with all nations, entangling alliances with none, the support of the state governments in all their rights, as the most competent administrations for our domestic concerns and the surest bulwarks against anti-republican tendencies...
352 ページ - He has excited Domestic Insurrections amongst us, and has endeavoured to bring on the inhabitants of our frontiers the merciless Indian savages, whose known rule of warfare is an undistinguished destruction of all ages, sexes and conditions.
331 ページ - For the more convenient management of the general interests of the United States, delegates shall be annually appointed in such manner as the legislature of each State shall direct, to meet in Congress on the first Monday in November, in every year...
315 ページ - Citizens, by birth or choice, of a common country, that country has a right to concentrate your affections. The name of AMERICAN, which belongs to you in your national capacity, must always exalt the just pride of patriotism, more than any appellation derived from local discriminations. With. slight shades of difference, you have the same religion, manners, habits and political principles.
321 ページ - ... the appearances of a virtuous sense of obligation, a commendable deference for public opinion, or a laudable zeal for public good, the base or foolish compliances of ambition, corruption, or infatuation. As avenues to foreign influence, in innumerable ways, such attachments are particularly alarming to the truly enlightened and independent patriot. How many opportunities do they afford to tamper with domestic factions, to practice the arts of seduction, to mislead public opinion, to influence...
344 ページ - United States, whose Appointments are not herein otherwise provided for, and which shall be established by Law: but the Congress may by Law vest the Appointment of such inferior Officers, as they think proper, in the President alone, in the Courts of Law, or in the Heads of Departments.
342 ページ - United States of America. He shall hold his office during the term of four years, and together with the vice-president, chosen for the same term, be elected as follows : 2. Each State shall appoint...
343 ページ - Vice-President, declaring what officer shall then act as President, and such officer shall act accordingly until the disability be removed or a President shall be elected. 7. The President shall, at stated times, receive for his services a compensation which shall neither be increased nor...
352 ページ - 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 restrain this execrable commerce.
331 ページ - Freedom of speech and debate in Congress shall not be impeached or questioned in any court, or place out of Congress...