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... convention , in framing a provisional con- stitution for New Jersey , in 1776 , declared that as “ all the ... Conventions of the People in the Counties . 1776 ] NEW JERSEY CONSTITUTION 173 constitutional authority ever possessed 172 ...
... convention , in framing a provisional con- stitution for New Jersey , in 1776 , declared that as “ all the ... Conventions of the People in the Counties . 1776 ] NEW JERSEY CONSTITUTION 173 constitutional authority ever possessed 172 ...
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... convention assembled at Columbia , and soon promulgated a new constitution , which , slightly amended in later years , was in force till 1865 . The In Virginia , the Williamsburg convention assembled in April , 1776 , and framed a ...
... convention assembled at Columbia , and soon promulgated a new constitution , which , slightly amended in later years , was in force till 1865 . The In Virginia , the Williamsburg convention assembled in April , 1776 , and framed a ...
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... convention , called to meet January 4 , 1789. A third convention passed on this instrument , and having made some changes , ratified and promulgated it on the 6th of May . Nine years later , on the 30th of May , the third constitution ...
... convention , called to meet January 4 , 1789. A third convention passed on this instrument , and having made some changes , ratified and promulgated it on the 6th of May . Nine years later , on the 30th of May , the third constitution ...
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... convention , at Danville , to organize a state government . On the 2d of April , 1792 , a fourth convention assembled there , and on the 19th adopted and promulgated a constitution . Seven years later , on the 22d of July , another ...
... convention , at Danville , to organize a state government . On the 2d of April , 1792 , a fourth convention assembled there , and on the 19th adopted and promulgated a constitution . Seven years later , on the 22d of July , another ...
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... conventions specially to prepare constitutions . In all the states , save one , legislative and convention functions were confused , and the constitution was promulgated , instead of being formally ratified by the electors at the polls ...
... conventions specially to prepare constitutions . In all the states , save one , legislative and convention functions were confused , and the constitution was promulgated , instead of being formally ratified by the electors at the polls ...
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Page 351 - Our first and fundamental maxim should be, never to entangle ourselves in the broils of Europe. Our second, never to suffer \ Europe to intermeddle with cis-Atlantic affairs. America, North and South, has a set of interests distinct from those of Europe, and peculiarly her own. She should therefore have a system of her own, separate and apart from that of Europe.
Page 305 - Our detached and distant situation invites and enables us to pursue a different course. If we remain one people, under an efficient government, the period is not far off, when we may defy material injury from external annoyance; when we may take such an attitude as will cause the neutrality, we may at any time resolve upon, to be scrupulously respected...
Page 373 - I consider, then, the power to annul a law of the United States, assumed by one State, incompatible with the existence of the Union, contradicted expressly by the letter of the Constitution, unauthorized by its spirit, inconsistent with every principle on which it was founded, and destructive of the great object for which it was formed.
Page 404 - A house divided against itself cannot stand." I believe this government cannot endure permanently half slave and half free. I do not expect the Union to be dissolved; 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...
Page 539 - That all men are by nature equally free and independent, and have certain inherent rights, of which when they enter into a state of society, they cannot by any compact deprive or divest their posterity; namely, the enjoyment of life and liberty, with the means of acquiring and possessing property, and pursuing and obtaining happiness and safety.
Page 546 - I barely suggest for your private consideration, whether some of the colored people may not be let in — as, for instance, the very intelligent, and especially those who have fought gallantly in our ranks. They would probably help, in some trying time to come, to keep the jewel of liberty within the family of freedom.
Page 461 - That on the first day of January, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-three, all persons held as slaves within any State or designated part of a State, the people whereof shall then be in rebellion against the United States, shall be then, thenceforward, and forever free...
Page 341 - I am compelled to declare it as my deliberate opinion that if this bill passes, the bonds of this Union are virtually dissolved; that the States which compose it are free from their moral obligations, and that as it will be the right of all, so it will be the duty of some, to prepare definitely for a separation, amicably if they can, violently if they must.
Page 404 - If we could first know where we are, and whither we are tending, we could better judge what to do, and how to do it.
Page 305 - 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 connection as possible.