A Constitutional History of the American People, 1776-1850, Volume 1Harper & Brothers, 1898 - Constitutional history |
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... lature , and it is the only one that has continued its eighteenth - century constitution . It is doubt- * New Hampshire , 1784 ; Pennsylvania , 1790 ; Delaware , 1792 ; Tennessee , 1796 . + Vermont , 1777 , 1786 , 1793. North Carolina ...
... lature , and it is the only one that has continued its eighteenth - century constitution . It is doubt- * New Hampshire , 1784 ; Pennsylvania , 1790 ; Delaware , 1792 ; Tennessee , 1796 . + Vermont , 1777 , 1786 , 1793. North Carolina ...
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... lature . See Stone's edition of Wood's History of the University ; third edition , Philadelphia , 1896. Five States made the support of schools obligatory on the Legislature - Pennsylvania , Ver- mont , New Hampshire , Massachusetts ...
... lature . See Stone's edition of Wood's History of the University ; third edition , Philadelphia , 1896. Five States made the support of schools obligatory on the Legislature - Pennsylvania , Ver- mont , New Hampshire , Massachusetts ...
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... lature , it began to change in political character when the members were elected in districts . Be- fore it had disappeared , it exercised executive , legislative , and judicial functions . Clearly the Governor was a military figure ...
... lature , it began to change in political character when the members were elected in districts . Be- fore it had disappeared , it exercised executive , legislative , and judicial functions . Clearly the Governor was a military figure ...
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... lature in eleven colonies consisted of two Houses , it was the Lower House - the deputies - which developed as the central authority in the colony . This House was the voice of the politically quali- * The principal authorities for the ...
... lature in eleven colonies consisted of two Houses , it was the Lower House - the deputies - which developed as the central authority in the colony . This House was the voice of the politically quali- * The principal authorities for the ...
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... lature . However , its establishment was considered just and equable . The States which had ceded the Southwest Territory were slave - holding States ; those which ceded the Northwest Territory , except Virginia , were free soil . By ...
... lature . However , its establishment was considered just and equable . The States which had ceded the Southwest Territory were slave - holding States ; those which ceded the Northwest Territory , except Virginia , were free soil . By ...
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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.