History of the Hartford Convention: With a Review of the Policy of the United States Government which Led to the War of 1812N. & J. White, 1833 - 447 Seiten |
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... legislature ; for he avowed the opinion , that man could be governed by one of two motives only , force , or interest ; force , he observed , in this country , was out of the question ; and the interests , therefore , of the members ...
... legislature ; for he avowed the opinion , that man could be governed by one of two motives only , force , or interest ; force , he observed , in this country , was out of the question ; and the interests , therefore , of the members ...
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... legislature , which might give to the government the direction suited to his politi- cal views . " The bank was another measure which did not meet with Mr. Jefferson's support . After remarking on these various subjects , he says ...
... legislature , which might give to the government the direction suited to his politi- cal views . " The bank was another measure which did not meet with Mr. Jefferson's support . After remarking on these various subjects , he says ...
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... legislature , all the officers of the government , all who want to be officers , all timid men who prefer the calm of despotism to the boisterous sea of liberty , British merchants , and Americans trading on British capitals ...
... legislature , all the officers of the government , all who want to be officers , all timid men who prefer the calm of despotism to the boisterous sea of liberty , British merchants , and Americans trading on British capitals ...
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... legislature , all the officers of government , all who want to be officers , all timid men who prefer the calm of despotism to the boisterous sea of liberty , British merchants , and Americans trading on British capitals , speculators ...
... legislature , all the officers of government , all who want to be officers , all timid men who prefer the calm of despotism to the boisterous sea of liberty , British merchants , and Americans trading on British capitals , speculators ...
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... legislature pure and independent of the executive , to restrain the administration to republican forms and principles , and not permit the constitution to be construed into a monarchy , and to be warped in practice , into all the ...
... legislature pure and independent of the executive , to restrain the administration to republican forms and principles , and not permit the constitution to be construed into a monarchy , and to be warped in practice , into all the ...
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Seite 13 - 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.
Seite 29 - In place of that noble love of liberty and republican government which carried us triumphantly through the war, an Anglican monarchical and aristocratical party has sprung up, whose avowed object is to draw over us the substance, as they have already done the forms, of the British government. The main body of our citizens, however, remain true to their republican principles; the whole landed interest is republican, and so is a great mass of talents.
Seite 437 - We, the people of the State of South Carolina, in convention assembled, do declare and ordain, and it is hereby declared and ordained, that the ordinance adopted by us, in convention, on the 23d day of May, in the year of our Lord 1788, whereby the constitution of the United States of America...
Seite 22 - It would give you a fever were I to name to you the apostates who have gone over to these heresies, men who were Samsons in the field and Solomons in the council, but who have had their heads shorn by the harlot England.
Seite 438 - State ; but it shall be the duty of the legislature to adopt such measures and pass such acts as may be necessary to give full effect to this ordinance, and to prevent the enforcement and arrest the operation of the said acts and parts of acts of the Congress of the United States within the limits of this State...
Seite 79 - It is ordered by His Royal Highness the Prince Re-gent, in the name and on the behalf of His Majesty...
Seite 438 - States, no appeal shall be allowed to the supreme court of the United States, nor shall any copy of the record be permitted or allowed for that purpose, and that any person attempting to take such appeal shall be punished as for a contempt of court...
Seite 439 - Legislature excepted,) shall, within such time, and in such manner as the Legislature shall prescribe, take an oath, well and truly to obey, execute and enforce this Ordinance, and such act or acts of the Legislature, as may be passed in pursuance thereof, according to the true intent and meaning of the same, and on the neglect or omission of any such person or persons so to do, his or their office or offices shall be forthwith "vacated, and shall be filled up as if such person or persons were dead,...
Seite 213 - An act to interdict the commercial intercourse between the United States and Great Britain and France and their dependencies, and for other purposes...
Seite 409 - I lay before Congress copies of the treaty of peace and amity between the United States and His Britannic Majesty, which was signed by the commissioners of both parties at Ghent on the 24th of December, 1814, and the ratifications of which have been duly exchanged. While performing this act I congratulate you and our constituents upon an event which is highly honorable to the nation, and terminates with peculiar felicity a campaign signalized by the most brilliant successes.