History of the United States of North AmericaC. Tilt, 1838 - 375 Seiten |
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... persons . The whole expense of the expedition was but about twenty thousand dollars . But even this was considered by the statesmen of the time too great an expenditure for so uncertain an enterprise . LAND DISCOVERED . 5 When the ...
... persons . The whole expense of the expedition was but about twenty thousand dollars . But even this was considered by the statesmen of the time too great an expenditure for so uncertain an enterprise . LAND DISCOVERED . 5 When the ...
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... persons at a fort which he named Carolina in honour of Charles IX . , he returned to France . The civil wars in that kingdom being revived , no reinforcements were sent out to the colony , and it was speedily abandoned . On the return ...
... persons at a fort which he named Carolina in honour of Charles IX . , he returned to France . The civil wars in that kingdom being revived , no reinforcements were sent out to the colony , and it was speedily abandoned . On the return ...
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... persons of distinction in England still entertained sanguine hopes of ultimately effecting this grand object . Gosnold , whose voyage to New England we have already noticed , succeeded in forming a company consisting of himself ...
... persons of distinction in England still entertained sanguine hopes of ultimately effecting this grand object . Gosnold , whose voyage to New England we have already noticed , succeeded in forming a company consisting of himself ...
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... persons , composed of many gentlemen , several refiners , gold- smiths , and jewellers , and a few labourers . The hopes of the colonists were revived by this seasonable relief . 6 Not long after their arrival , there was unfortunately ...
... persons , composed of many gentlemen , several refiners , gold- smiths , and jewellers , and a few labourers . The hopes of the colonists were revived by this seasonable relief . 6 Not long after their arrival , there was unfortunately ...
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... persons required in a new country ; and Smith entreated the company to send him , rather but thirty carpenters , husbandmen , gardeners , fisher- men , blacksmiths , masons , and diggers up of trees ' roots , than a thousand such as ...
... persons required in a new country ; and Smith entreated the company to send him , rather but thirty carpenters , husbandmen , gardeners , fisher- men , blacksmiths , masons , and diggers up of trees ' roots , than a thousand such as ...
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Seite 366 - New States may be admitted by the Congress into this Union ; but no new State shall be formed or erected within the jurisdiction of any other State ; nor any State be formed by the junction of two or more States, or parts of States, without the consent of the legislatures of the States concerned as well as of the Congress.
Seite 366 - ... 2. A person charged in any state with treason, felony, or other crime, who shall flee from justice, and be found in another state, shall, on demand of the executive authority of the state from which he fled, be delivered up, to be removed to the state having jurisdiction of the crime.
Seite 54 - Name of the Council Established at Plymouth in the County of Devon, for the Planting, Ruling, Ordering and Governing of New England in America...
Seite 360 - States; 3. To regulate commerce with foreign nations and among the several states, and with the Indian tribes; 4. To establish an uniform rule of naturalization, and uniform laws on the subject of bankruptcies throughout the United States; 5. To coin money, regulate the value thereof, and of foreign coin, and fix the standard of weights and measures; 6. To provide for the punishment of counterfeiting the securities and current coin of the United States; 7.
Seite 359 - ... 2. Each house may determine the rules of its proceedings, punish its members for disorderly behavior, and with the concurrence of two thirds, expel a member.
Seite 359 - Each house shall keep a journal of its proceedings, and from time to time publish the same, excepting such parts as may in their judgment require secrecy; and the yeas and nays of the members of either house on any question shall, at the desire of one fifth of those present, be entered on the journal.
Seite 59 - Covenant and combine ourselves together into a Civil body politic, for our better ordering and preservation, and furtherance of the ends aforesaid ; and by virtue hereof, to enact, constitute, and frame such just and equal laws, ordinances, acts, constitutions, and offices, from time to time, as shall be thought most meet and convenient for the general good of the colony, unto which we promise all due submission and obedience.
Seite 362 - No title of nobility shall be granted by the United States; and no person holding any office of profit or trust under them, shall, without the consent of Congress, accept of any present, emolument, office, or title, of any kind whatever, from any king, prince, or foreign state.
Seite 365 - States shall consist only in levying war against them, or in adhering to their enemies, giving them aid and comfort. No person shall be convicted of treason unless on the testimony of two witnesses to the same overt act, or on confession in open court.
Seite 370 - ... number be a majority of the whole number of electors appointed; and if no person have a majority, then from the two highest numbers on the list the Senate shall choose the Vice-President; a quorum for the purpose shall consist of two-thirds of the whole number of Senators, and a majority of the whole number shall be necessary to a choice. 3. But no person constitutionally ineligible to the office of President shall be eligible to that of Vice-President of the United States.