A Constitutional History of the American People, 1776-1850, Volume 1Harper & Brothers, 1898 - Constitutional history |
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... committee of the constitu- ency authorized to submit a plan of government . Its discussions have hitherto been neglected as evidence of the nature of American civil institu- tions and of their trend and administration . The traditional ...
... committee of the constitu- ency authorized to submit a plan of government . Its discussions have hitherto been neglected as evidence of the nature of American civil institu- tions and of their trend and administration . The traditional ...
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... Committee of the Convention . 3. The Address to the People . 4. The Constitution as finally Agreed upon by the Convention , and Ratified by the People , with the Amendments since Adopted . 5. The Rejected Constitution of 1778. Published ...
... Committee of the Convention . 3. The Address to the People . 4. The Constitution as finally Agreed upon by the Convention , and Ratified by the People , with the Amendments since Adopted . 5. The Rejected Constitution of 1778. Published ...
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... Committee of Safety , and Council of Safety of the State of New York , 1775 , 1776 , 1777. Albany : Printed by Thur- low Weed , Printer to the State , 1842 , Vol . i . , Large Folio , L196 pp . See also some account of the making of the ...
... Committee of Safety , and Council of Safety of the State of New York , 1775 , 1776 , 1777. Albany : Printed by Thur- low Weed , Printer to the State , 1842 , Vol . i . , Large Folio , L196 pp . See also some account of the making of the ...
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... Committee of the Same , folio , 107 pp . Tennessee . Journal of the Proceedings of a Convention Begun and Held at Knoxville , January 11 , 1796. Knoxville : Printed by George Roulstone , 1796. Nashville : Reprinted by McKennie & Brown ...
... Committee of the Same , folio , 107 pp . Tennessee . Journal of the Proceedings of a Convention Begun and Held at Knoxville , January 11 , 1796. Knoxville : Printed by George Roulstone , 1796. Nashville : Reprinted by McKennie & Brown ...
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... committee and forgotten . The messages of the early Governors remain a fair index of early legislation . As long as this state of things continued , it was unnecessary to limit the power of the Assembly and increase that of the Governor ...
... committee and forgotten . The messages of the early Governors remain a fair index of early legislation . As long as this state of things continued , it was unnecessary to limit the power of the Assembly and increase that of the Governor ...
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Page 401 - Those who labor in the earth are the chosen people of God, if ever he had a chosen people, whose breasts he has made his peculiar deposit for substantial and genuine virtue.
Page 158 - Under the Articles of Confederation each State retained its sovereignty, freedom, and independence, and every power, jurisdiction, and right not expressly delegated to the United States.
Page 290 - Every man is said to have his peculiar ambition. Whether it be true or not, I can say, for one, that I have no other so great as that of being truly esteemed of my fellow-men, by rendering myself worthy of their esteem. How far I shall succeed in gratifying this ambition is yet to be developed.
Page 402 - The mobs of great cities add just so much to the support of pure government, as sores do to the strength of the human body.
Page 292 - Consequently I go for admitting all whites to the right of suffrage, who pay taxes or bear arms, (by no means excluding females...
Page 198 - No person who acknowledges the being of a God, and a future state of rewards and punishments, shall, on account of his religious sentiments, be disqualified to hold any office or place of trust or profit under this Commonwealth.
Page 289 - Upon the subject of education, not presuming to dictate any plan or system respecting it, I can only say that I view it as the most important subject which we, as a people, can be engaged in.
Page 420 - The better to secure and perpetuate mutual friendship and intercourse among the people of the different States in this Union, the free inhabitants of each of these States, (paupers, vagabonds, and fugitives from justice excepted,) shall be entitled to all privileges and immunities of free citizens in the several States...
Page 290 - I can only say that I view it as the most important subject which we as a people can be engaged in. That every man may receive at least a moderate education, and thereby be enabled to read the histories of his own and other countries, by which he may duly appreciate the value of our free institutions...
Page 401 - ... the proportion which the aggregate of the other classes of citizens bears in any state to that of its husbandmen, is the proportion of its unsound to its healthy parts, and is a good-enough barometer whereby to measure its degree of corruption.