The Political Thought of American Statesmen: Selected Writings and SpeechesMorton J. Frisch, Richard G. Stevens |
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... vote is taken , and a vote in favor of it , can not be got in any population of forty thousand , on earth , who have been drawn together by the ordinary motives of emigration and settlement . To get slaves into the country ...
... vote is taken , and a vote in favor of it , can not be got in any population of forty thousand , on earth , who have been drawn together by the ordinary motives of emigration and settlement . To get slaves into the country ...
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... vote of the people ? or a vote of the legislature ? or , indeed by a vote of any sort ? To these questions , the law gives no answer . There is a mystery about this ; for when a member proposed to give the legislature express authority ...
... vote of the people ? or a vote of the legislature ? or , indeed by a vote of any sort ? To these questions , the law gives no answer . There is a mystery about this ; for when a member proposed to give the legislature express authority ...
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... vote , because it is by no means certain that they can succeed in this State against the powerful combinations opposed to them without the support of the full and complete Abolition vote . Bitter indeed , would be the reproach , and ...
... vote , because it is by no means certain that they can succeed in this State against the powerful combinations opposed to them without the support of the full and complete Abolition vote . Bitter indeed , would be the reproach , and ...
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INTRODUCTION | 1 |
The Founding | 2 |
THOMAS JEFFERSON 17431826 | 6 |
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