Lectures on the Growth and Development of the United States: Illustrated, Volume 4Edwin Wiley, Irving Everett Rines, Albert Bushnell Hart American Educational Alliance, 1916 - United States |
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... President Washington to the President of Congress , that this body immediately and unanimously adopted the resolution of the Convention , recommending that the projected Constitution be transmitted to the Legislatures of the several ...
... President Washington to the President of Congress , that this body immediately and unanimously adopted the resolution of the Convention , recommending that the projected Constitution be transmitted to the Legislatures of the several ...
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... president seems a bad edition of a Polish king . He may be elected from four years to four years for life . Reason and experience prove to us , that a chief magistrate , so continuable , is an office for life , " etc. It may be worth ...
... president seems a bad edition of a Polish king . He may be elected from four years to four years for life . Reason and experience prove to us , that a chief magistrate , so continuable , is an office for life , " etc. It may be worth ...
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... president of the convention , descended from the chair and , with some conciliatory assertions , proposed some amend- ments which should later be incorpo- rated into the Constitution . He Ames , with all his eloquence . Said he : " I am ...
... president of the convention , descended from the chair and , with some conciliatory assertions , proposed some amend- ments which should later be incorpo- rated into the Constitution . He Ames , with all his eloquence . Said he : " I am ...
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... president may easily be- come king . Your senate is so imperfectly con- structed , that your dearest rights may be sacri- ficed by what may be a small minority ; and a very small minority may continue forever un- changeably this ...
... president may easily be- come king . Your senate is so imperfectly con- structed , that your dearest rights may be sacri- ficed by what may be a small minority ; and a very small minority may continue forever un- changeably this ...
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... president . Of this I expect no amendment at present , because I do not see that anybody has * For other letters expressing the same senti- ments , see Ford's ed . of Jefferson's Writings , vol . v . , pp . 2-3 , 4 , 5 , 7-8 , 11-12 ...
... president . Of this I expect no amendment at present , because I do not see that anybody has * For other letters expressing the same senti- ments , see Ford's ed . of Jefferson's Writings , vol . v . , pp . 2-3 , 4 , 5 , 7-8 , 11-12 ...
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