The American Politician: Containing the Declaration of the Independence, the Constitution of the United States, the Inaugural and First Annual Addresses and Messages of All the Presidents, and Other Important State Papers; Together with a Selection of Interesting Statistical Tables, and Biographical Notices of the Signers of the Declaration of Independence, the Several Presidents, and Many Other Distinguished Characters |
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... confidence of my fellow - citizens , and have thence too little consulted my incapacity as well as disinclination for the weighty and untried cares before me , my error will be palliated by the motives which misled me , and its ...
... confidence of my fellow - citizens , and have thence too little consulted my incapacity as well as disinclination for the weighty and untried cares before me , my error will be palliated by the motives which misled me , and its ...
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... confidence in your discernment and pursuit of the public good ; for I assure myself that , while you carefully avoid every alteration which might endanger the benefits of a united and effective government , or which ought to await the ...
... confidence in your discernment and pursuit of the public good ; for I assure myself that , while you carefully avoid every alteration which might endanger the benefits of a united and effective government , or which ought to await the ...
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... confidence of the people ; and by teaching the people themselves to know and to value their own rights ; to dis cern and provide against invasions of them ; to distinguish between oppression and the necessary exercise of lawful ...
... confidence of the people ; and by teaching the people themselves to know and to value their own rights ; to dis cern and provide against invasions of them ; to distinguish between oppression and the necessary exercise of lawful ...
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... confidence in your best en- deavors to devise such a provision as will be truly consistent with the end , I add an equal reliance on the cheerful co- operation of the other branch of the legislature . It would be superfluous to specify ...
... confidence in your best en- deavors to devise such a provision as will be truly consistent with the end , I add an equal reliance on the cheerful co- operation of the other branch of the legislature . It would be superfluous to specify ...
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... confidence , impelled me to abandon the idea . I rejoice that the state of your concerns , external as well as internal , no longer renders the pursuit of inclination incompatible with the sentiment of duty or propriety ; and am ...
... confidence , impelled me to abandon the idea . I rejoice that the state of your concerns , external as well as internal , no longer renders the pursuit of inclination incompatible with the sentiment of duty or propriety ; and am ...
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