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... CONFEDERATION POLITICS . Nature of the Confederation - Distrust of Power - Weakness of Congress- Shay's Rebellion - Agitation to amend the Confederation - The Ann- apolis Convention - Constitutional Convention , 1787 - Adoption of the ...
... CONFEDERATION POLITICS . Nature of the Confederation - Distrust of Power - Weakness of Congress- Shay's Rebellion - Agitation to amend the Confederation - The Ann- apolis Convention - Constitutional Convention , 1787 - Adoption of the ...
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... Confederate States of Amer- ica - The Crittenden Compromise - The Peace Convention -- References-- South Carolina Declaration of Independence - Platforms..Pages 306-347 CHAPTER XVIII . LINCOLN'S ADMINISTRATION . Inauguration - Inaugural ...
... Confederate States of Amer- ica - The Crittenden Compromise - The Peace Convention -- References-- South Carolina Declaration of Independence - Platforms..Pages 306-347 CHAPTER XVIII . LINCOLN'S ADMINISTRATION . Inauguration - Inaugural ...
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... acted in an independent capacity till the adoption of the Articles of Confederation , when certain modifications were made . At the adoption of the Declaration of Independence , each 24 HISTORY OF AMERICAN POLITICS .
... acted in an independent capacity till the adoption of the Articles of Confederation , when certain modifications were made . At the adoption of the Declaration of Independence , each 24 HISTORY OF AMERICAN POLITICS .
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... Confederation . STATUS OF THE STATES AND THE CONTINENTAL CONGRESS . There were two views on the status of the states and the Continental Congress ; one may be called national , the other particularist . The national idea is that the ...
... Confederation . STATUS OF THE STATES AND THE CONTINENTAL CONGRESS . There were two views on the status of the states and the Continental Congress ; one may be called national , the other particularist . The national idea is that the ...
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... CONFEDERATION . On the 11th of June , 1776 , Congress selected a committee to prepare a scheme of confederation . On the 12th of the following July the committee submitted to Congress the draft of the Articles of Confederation . On the ...
... CONFEDERATION . On the 11th of June , 1776 , Congress selected a committee to prepare a scheme of confederation . On the 12th of the following July the committee submitted to Congress the draft of the Articles of Confederation . On the ...
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Page 30 - In Congress, July 4, 1776 The Unanimous Declaration of the Thirteen United States of America When in the Course of human events it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate...
Page 62 - And 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 56 - FREEDOM of speech and debate in congress shall not be impeached or questioned in any Court, or place out of Congress...
Page 96 - The person having the greatest number of votes as Vice President, shall be the Vice President, if such number be a majority of the whole number of Electors appointed, and if no person have a majority, then from the two highest numbers on the list, the Senate shall choose the Vice President; a quorum for the purpose shall consist of two-thirds of the whole number of Senators, and a majority of the whole number shall be necessary to a choice. But no person constitutionally ineligible to the office...
Page 119 - In the execution of such a plan nothing is more essential than that permanent, inveterate antipathies against particular nations and passionate attachments for others should be excluded ; and that in place of them just and amicable feelings towards all should be cultivated.
Page 120 - EUROPE has a set of primary interests, which to us have none, or a very remote relation. Hence she must be engaged in frequent controversies, the causes of which are essentially , foreign to our concerns. Hence, therefore, it must be unwise in us to implicate ourselves by artificial ties, in the ordinary vicissitudes of her politics, or the ordinary combinations and Collisions of her friendships or enmities.
Page 58 - Person, as such land and the buildings and improvements thereon shall be estimated according to such mode as the united states in congress assembled, shall from time to time direct and appoint. The taxes for paying that proportion shall be laid and levied by the authority and direction of the legislatures of the several states within the time agreed upon by the united states in congress assembled.
Page 120 - The great rule of conduct for us, in regard to foreign nations is, in extending our commercial relations, to have with them as little political connexion as possible. So far as we have already formed engagements, let them be fulfilled with perfect good faith. Here let us stop.
Page 313 - I do not expect the house to fall, but I do expect it will cease to be divided. It will become all one thing, or all the other. Either the opponents of slavery will arrest the further spread of it, and place it where the public mind shall rest in the belief that it is in the course of ultimate extinction; or its advocates will push it forward till it shall become alike lawful in all the States, old as well as new, North as well as South.
Page 115 - This Government, the offspring of our own choice, uninfluenced and unawed, adopted upon full investigation and mature deliberation, completely free in its principles, in the distribution of its powers, uniting security with energy, and containing within itself a provision for its own amendment, has a just claim to your confidence and your support. Respect for its authority, compliance with its laws, acquiescence in its measures, are duties enjoined by the fundamental maxims of true Liberty. The basis...