A Constitutional History of the American People, 1776-1850, Volume 1Harper & Brothers, 1898 - Constitutional history |
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... slavery . This is more clearly seen about the time of the Mis- souri Compromise . From that time immigration and migration into the West rapidly enlarge the field of controversy , and more sharply define the incongruous elements in our ...
... slavery . This is more clearly seen about the time of the Mis- souri Compromise . From that time immigration and migration into the West rapidly enlarge the field of controversy , and more sharply define the incongruous elements in our ...
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... slavery . 268 Is slavery detrimental to a State ? Has Congress the power to restrict ? What is a republican form of government ? . Some provisions in the Constitution not applicable to new States . . . Difference between migration and ...
... slavery . 268 Is slavery detrimental to a State ? Has Congress the power to restrict ? What is a republican form of government ? . Some provisions in the Constitution not applicable to new States . . . Difference between migration and ...
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... slaves in a de- mocracy . Free negroes in New England The penalties of emancipation Laws keeping free negroes in ... Slavery muzzles free speech The new West frowns on the free negro · 379 380 381 , 382 383 • 384 385 · 386 387 388 ...
... slaves in a de- mocracy . Free negroes in New England The penalties of emancipation Laws keeping free negroes in ... Slavery muzzles free speech The new West frowns on the free negro · 379 380 381 , 382 383 • 384 385 · 386 387 388 ...
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... Slaves vs. white servants · Difficulties in apportioning representation The three methods of apportionment . Danger of antagonism to slavery Town vs. country The equilibrium sought . Slaves both property and persons · 465 • 466 • 467 ...
... Slaves vs. white servants · Difficulties in apportioning representation The three methods of apportionment . Danger of antagonism to slavery Town vs. country The equilibrium sought . Slaves both property and persons · 465 • 466 • 467 ...
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... slavery and State sovereignty were national issues , and the extension of the franchise and the change from property to persons as the basis of representation were State issues , Jefferson was idealized as the political philosopher and ...
... slavery and State sovereignty were national issues , and the extension of the franchise and the change from property to persons as the basis of representation were State issues , Jefferson was idealized as the political philosopher and ...
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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.