The Political Thought of American Statesmen: Selected Writings and SpeechesMorton J. Frisch, Richard G. Stevens |
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... objects of public liberty , and did not mean to add a declaration of rights . Probably the object was imperfectly executed ; but the deficiencies would have been supplied by others , in the course of discussion . But in a constitutive ...
... objects of public liberty , and did not mean to add a declaration of rights . Probably the object was imperfectly executed ; but the deficiencies would have been supplied by others , in the course of discussion . But in a constitutive ...
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... object . It is , in a word , a violation by perversion , -the most dangerous of all because the most insidious and ... objects , and if these be constitutional , they cannot interpose their power , however grossly the acts may , in ...
... object . It is , in a word , a violation by perversion , -the most dangerous of all because the most insidious and ... objects , and if these be constitutional , they cannot interpose their power , however grossly the acts may , in ...
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... object . With them , Nebraska alone is a small matter - to establish a principle , for FUTURE USE , is what they ... object to the NEW position which the avowed principle of this Nebraska law gives to slavery in the body politic . I ...
... object . With them , Nebraska alone is a small matter - to establish a principle , for FUTURE USE , is what they ... object to the NEW position which the avowed principle of this Nebraska law gives to slavery in the body politic . I ...
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INTRODUCTION | 1 |
The Founding | 2 |
THOMAS JEFFERSON 17431826 | 6 |
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