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He left to Mr. Breckinridge and Mr. Madison and their colleagues the feeling of the pulse of the people and the enunciation of the general position which in due season he was to accept and adopt . Thus he kept himself free from such ...
He left to Mr. Breckinridge and Mr. Madison and their colleagues the feeling of the pulse of the people and the enunciation of the general position which in due season he was to accept and adopt . Thus he kept himself free from such ...
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The convention feels it its duty to enumerate the abuses of the Federal Government which have contributed to its downfall from the high estate it held under George Washington and John Adams . First . - A deliberate and extensive system ...
The convention feels it its duty to enumerate the abuses of the Federal Government which have contributed to its downfall from the high estate it held under George Washington and John Adams . First . - A deliberate and extensive system ...
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... betraying a want of information as well as feeling in the majority , shall have been considered , the reasonableness of some restrictions upon the power of a bare majority to repeat these oppressions will appear to be obvious .
... betraying a want of information as well as feeling in the majority , shall have been considered , the reasonableness of some restrictions upon the power of a bare majority to repeat these oppressions will appear to be obvious .
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all that in them lies to preserve and perpetuate the Union of the States and the liberties of which it is the surest pledge - but feeling it to be their bounden duty to expose and to resist all encroachments upon the true spirit of the ...
all that in them lies to preserve and perpetuate the Union of the States and the liberties of which it is the surest pledge - but feeling it to be their bounden duty to expose and to resist all encroachments upon the true spirit of the ...
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... he might perhaps say the insuperable , difficulty of causing their sentiments and feelings to be made known so as to be understood and appreciated by their fellow citizens in other quarters of the Union . Viewing the United States ...
... he might perhaps say the insuperable , difficulty of causing their sentiments and feelings to be made known so as to be understood and appreciated by their fellow citizens in other quarters of the Union . Viewing the United States ...
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| Title | Great Debates in American History: State rights (1798-1861); slavery (1858-1861) Volume 5 of Great Debates in American History: From the Debates in the British Parliament on the Colonial Stamp Act (1764-1765) to the Debates in Congress at the Close of the Taft Administration (1912-1913), Marion Mills Miller |
| Editor | Marion Mills Miller |
| Contributors | United States. Congress, Great Britain. Parliament |
| Publisher | Current Literature Publishing Company, 1913 |
| Original from | the University of California |
| Digitized | 11 Oct 2010 |
| ISBN | 0810803860, 9780810803862 |
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