Landmarks of Liberty: The Growth of American Political Ideals as Recorded in Speeches from Otis to Hughes, Ed. with Introduction and Notes |
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... civil war be given , before they are permitted to force Englishmen to sheathe their swords in the bowels of their fellow - subjects , I hope this House will consider the rights of humanity , the original ground and cause of the present ...
... civil war be given , before they are permitted to force Englishmen to sheathe their swords in the bowels of their fellow - subjects , I hope this House will consider the rights of humanity , the original ground and cause of the present ...
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... civil dissensions which may from time to time on great ques- tions agitate the several communities which compose a great empire . It looks to me to be narrow and pedantic to apply the ordinary ideas of criminal justice to this great ...
... civil dissensions which may from time to time on great ques- tions agitate the several communities which compose a great empire . It looks to me to be narrow and pedantic to apply the ordinary ideas of criminal justice to this great ...
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... civil litigant against me in point of right , and a culprit before me , while I sit as a criminal judge on acts of his , whose moral quality is to be decided upon the merits of that very litigation . Men are every now and then put by ...
... civil litigant against me in point of right , and a culprit before me , while I sit as a criminal judge on acts of his , whose moral quality is to be decided upon the merits of that very litigation . Men are every now and then put by ...
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... civil power is granted as secondary . The manners of the Welsh nation followed the genius of the government : the people were ferocious , restive , savage , and uncultivated , some- times composed , never pacified . Wales , within ...
... civil power is granted as secondary . The manners of the Welsh nation followed the genius of the government : the people were ferocious , restive , savage , and uncultivated , some- times composed , never pacified . Wales , within ...
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... civil ; the marches were turned into counties . But that a nation should have a right to English liberties , and yet no share at all in the fundamental security of these lib- erties - the grant of their own property - seemed a thing so ...
... civil ; the marches were turned into counties . But that a nation should have a right to English liberties , and yet no share at all in the fundamental security of these lib- erties - the grant of their own property - seemed a thing so ...
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