Outlines of Civics: Being a Supplement to Bryce's "American Commonwealth", Abridged Edition, for Use in High Schools and Colleges |
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Page 28 - The articles of this confederation shall be inviolably observed by every state, and the union shall be perpetual; nor shall any alteration at any time hereafter be made in any of them; unless such alteration be agreed to in a congress of the United States, and be afterwards confirmed by the legislatures of every state.
Page 21 - as Englishmen their ancestors in like cases have usually done, for effecting and vindicating their rights and liberties, DECLARE : 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: That they are entitled to life, liberty, and property;
Page 27 - to emit bills of credit; to build and equip a navy; to agree upon the number of land forces, and to make requisitions upon each state for its quota, in proportion to the number of white inhabitants
Page 21 - in the British parliament, they are entitled to a free and exclusive power of legislation in their several provincial legislatures in all cases of taxation and internal polity; that the respective colonies are entitled to the common law of England;
Page 20 - and whereas in the last session of parliament three statutes were made, all which statutes are impolitic, unjust, and cruel, as well as unconstitutional, and most dangerous and destructive of American rights; and whereas assemblies have been frequently dissolved, contrary to the rights of the people,
Page 159 - in all civil actions in which the subject of litigation is not capable of pecuniary estimation; in all cases at law which involve the title or possession of real property, and in all other cases in which the demand,
Page 21 - in General Congress in the city of Philadelphia. Whereupon the deputies so appointed being now assembled, in a full and free representation of these colonies, do as Englishmen their ancestors in like cases have usually done, for
Page 20 - have been made dependent on the crown alone for their salaries, and standing armies kept in time of peace; and whereas it has lately been resolved in parliament that colonists may be transported to England, and tried there upon accusations
Page 26 - of granting letters of marque and reprisal in times of peace, appointing courts for the trial of piracies and felonies committed on the