The Political Text Book: Containing the Declaration of Independence, with the Lives of the Signers; the Constitution of the United States; the Inaugural Addresses and First Annual Messages of All the Presidents, from Washington to Tyler; the Farewell Addresses of George Washington and Andrew Jackson; and a Variety of Useful Tables, EtcW. Blake, 1841 - 489 Seiten |
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... becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another , and to assume , among the powers of the earth , the separate and equal station to which the laws of nature and of nature's God ...
... becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another , and to assume , among the powers of the earth , the separate and equal station to which the laws of nature and of nature's God ...
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... become the executioners of their friends and brethren , or to fall themselves by their hands . He has excited domestic insurrections amongst us , and has endeavored to bring on the inhabitants of our frontiers , the merciless Indian ...
... become the executioners of their friends and brethren , or to fall themselves by their hands . He has excited domestic insurrections amongst us , and has endeavored to bring on the inhabitants of our frontiers , the merciless Indian ...
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... become extensively known , was appointed by Congress , in connexion with Dr. Franklin and Samuel Chase , on a commission to pro- ceed to Canada , to persuade the people of that province to relinquish their allegiance to the crown of ...
... become extensively known , was appointed by Congress , in connexion with Dr. Franklin and Samuel Chase , on a commission to pro- ceed to Canada , to persuade the people of that province to relinquish their allegiance to the crown of ...
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... become vice - queen of the country from which they fled , at the summit of a system which a more immediate ancestor had risked every thing to destroy ; or , in the energetic and poetical language of Bishop England , " that in the land ...
... become vice - queen of the country from which they fled , at the summit of a system which a more immediate ancestor had risked every thing to destroy ; or , in the energetic and poetical language of Bishop England , " that in the land ...
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... becomes our painful duty to announce to our read- ers the demise of the last surviving signer of the Declar- ation of Independence . Charles Carroll of Carrollton is no more ! He expired at 4 o'clock yesterday morning . Thus , one after ...
... becomes our painful duty to announce to our read- ers the demise of the last surviving signer of the Declar- ation of Independence . Charles Carroll of Carrollton is no more ! He expired at 4 o'clock yesterday morning . Thus , one after ...
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Seite 123 - Congress shall make. 3. The trial of all crimes, except in cases of impeachment, shall be by jury, and such trial shall be held in the State where the said crimes shall have been committed; but when not committed within any State the trial shall be at such place or places as the Congress may by law have directed.
Seite 115 - ... 2. Immediately after they shall be assembled, in consequence of the first election, they shall be divided, as equally as may be, into three classes. The seats of the senators of the first class, shall be vacated at the expiration of the second year, of the second class...
Seite 151 - If there be any among us who would wish to dissolve this Union or to change its republican form, let them stand undisturbed as monuments of the safety with which error of opinion may be tolerated where reason is left free to combat it.
Seite 397 - This spirit, unfortunately, is inseparable from our nature, having its root in the strongest passions of the human mind. It exists under different shapes in all governments, more or less stifled, controlled, or repressed; but in those of the popular form it is seen in its greatest rankness, and is truly their worst enemy.
Seite 150 - All too will bear in mind this sacred principle, that though the will of the majority is in all cases to prevail, that will, to be rightful, must be reasonable ; that the minority possess their equal rights, which equal laws must protect, and to violate which would be oppression.
Seite 129 - The person having the greatest number of votes as Vice-President shall be the Vice-President, if such 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...
Seite 401 - So likewise, a passionate attachment of one nation for another produces a variety of evils. Sympathy for the favorite nation, facilitating the illusion of an imaginary common interest, in cases where no real common interest exists, and infusing into one the enmities of the other, betrays the former into a participation in the quarrels and wars of the latter, without adequate inducement or justification.
Seite 392 - ... a cordial, habitual, and immovable attachment to it; accustoming yourselves to think and speak of it as of the palladium of your political safety and prosperity; watching for its preservation with jealous anxiety; discountenancing whatever may suggest even a suspicion that it can in any event be abandoned; and indignantly frowning upon the first dawning of every attempt to alienate any portion of our country from the rest, or to enfeeble the sacred ties which now link together the various parts.
Seite 121 - 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...
Seite 392 - 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.