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... duties it chose a governor and one or more " assistants . " It was not long before the general meeting became imprac- ticable , as settlement scattered more and more widely . Then it was decided that each community should send delegates ...
... duties it chose a governor and one or more " assistants . " It was not long before the general meeting became imprac- ticable , as settlement scattered more and more widely . Then it was decided that each community should send delegates ...
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... duties of local administration were performed by officials ap- pointed by the governor and council . The chief of these were the sheriff , the lieutenant ( commander of the militia ) , and the justices of the court . Usually , if not ...
... duties of local administration were performed by officials ap- pointed by the governor and council . The chief of these were the sheriff , the lieutenant ( commander of the militia ) , and the justices of the court . Usually , if not ...
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... duties upon these articles when brought from the foreign sugar islands . This legislation is a good illus- tration of the union of policy and private interest ; while in har- mony with the idea of fostering colonial industries which ...
... duties upon these articles when brought from the foreign sugar islands . This legislation is a good illus- tration of the union of policy and private interest ; while in har- mony with the idea of fostering colonial industries which ...
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... duties on imports , an excise , or a stamp tax . Especially during the wars with France there was strong temp- tation to levy troops and raise money by parliamentary action . But Parliament in the end always refrained from such ...
... duties on imports , an excise , or a stamp tax . Especially during the wars with France there was strong temp- tation to levy troops and raise money by parliamentary action . But Parliament in the end always refrained from such ...
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... duties were performed by a deputy who was often a provincial bound to those whom he governed by intimate ties . This ... duties collected were negligible . To be sure , the act was not intended as a revenue measure , but the foreign ...
... duties were performed by a deputy who was often a provincial bound to those whom he governed by intimate ties . This ... duties collected were negligible . To be sure , the act was not intended as a revenue measure , but the foreign ...
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Page 209 - Experience has taught us that men will not adopt and carry into execution measures the best calculated for their own good without the intervention of a coercive power. I do not conceive we can exist long as a nation without having lodged somewhere a power which will pervade the whole Union in as energetic a manner as the authority of the state governments extends over the several states.
Page 136 - That the inhabitants of the English colonies in North America, by the immutable laws of nature, the principles of the English Constitution, and the several charters or compacts, have the following rights: Resolved, NCD 1.
Page 124 - Britain; and that the King's Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords spiritual and temporal and Commons of Great Britain in Parliament assembled, had, hath and of right ought to have, full power and authority to make laws and statutes of sufficient force and validity to bind the colonies and people of America, subjects of the Crown of Great Britain in all cases whatsoever.
Page 311 - We behold, in fine, on the side of Great Britain, a state of war against the United States ; and on the side of the United States, a state of peace towards Great Britain.
Page 282 - France, make the first cannon which shall be fired in Europe the signal for tearing up any settlement she may have made, and for holding the two continents of America in sequestration for the common purposes of the United British and American nations.
Page 141 - Lest this declaration should disquiet the minds of our friends and fellow-subjects in any part of the empire, we assure them that we mean not to dissolve that union which has so long and so happily subsisted between us, and which we sincerely wish to see restored.
Page 336 - Americans will pay, which the exhausted state of the continent renders very unlikely ; and because it was well worth while to incur a loss upon the first exportation, in order, by the glut, to stifle in the cradle those rising manufactures in the United States, which the war had forced into existence contrary to the natural course of things.
Page 282 - There is on the globe one single spot, the possessor of which is our natural and habitual enemy. It is New Orleans, through which the produce of threeeighths of our territory must pass to market...
Page 238 - If the end be clearly comprehended within any of the specified powers, and if the measure have an obvious relation to that end, and is not forbidden by any particular provision of the Constitution, it may safely be deemed to come within the compass of the national authority.
Page 173 - States shall be divided or appropriated : of granting letters of marque and reprisal, in times of peace : appointing courts for the trial of piracies and felonies committed on the high seas, and establishing courts for receiving and determining finally appeals in all cases of captures ; provided, that no member of congress shall be appointed a judge of any of the said courts.