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... interest- ing and important ; but " away with politics ! Let me address you as a student and philosopher , and not as a patriot . " Shut off from any contact with the stirring incidents of that year in the towns of the coast , he lost ...
... interest- ing and important ; but " away with politics ! Let me address you as a student and philosopher , and not as a patriot . " Shut off from any contact with the stirring incidents of that year in the towns of the coast , he lost ...
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... interest , and in any discussion of which he , no doubt , felt quite at ease . This was concerning re- ligious freedom . An article in the proposed Dec- laration of Rights provided that " all men should enjoy the fullest toleration in ...
... interest , and in any discussion of which he , no doubt , felt quite at ease . This was concerning re- ligious freedom . An article in the proposed Dec- laration of Rights provided that " all men should enjoy the fullest toleration in ...
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... made it their own , possessing for us the personal interest of being the first public work of the coming statesman . Madison was thenceforth for the next forty years a public man . Of the first Assembly under 18 JAMES MADISON .
... made it their own , possessing for us the personal interest of being the first public work of the coming statesman . Madison was thenceforth for the next forty years a public man . Of the first Assembly under 18 JAMES MADISON .
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... interest - bearing certificates , not transferable , but to be redeemed at a specified time after the war was over . The plan would un- doubtedly have put a stop to the circulation of a vast volume of paper money if the producers would ...
... interest - bearing certificates , not transferable , but to be redeemed at a specified time after the war was over . The plan would un- doubtedly have put a stop to the circulation of a vast volume of paper money if the producers would ...
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... of the delegates , Mr. Madison among them , were extremely sensitive . The national debt altogether was not less than forty million dollars . To provide for the interest on this debt , and a fund for expenses , CHAPTER III IN CONGRESS.
... of the delegates , Mr. Madison among them , were extremely sensitive . The national debt altogether was not less than forty million dollars . To provide for the interest on this debt , and a fund for expenses , CHAPTER III IN CONGRESS.
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Page 60 - States, to devise such further provisions as shall appear to them necessary to render the constitution of the federal government adequate to the exigencies of the union...
Page 66 - ... support any religious worship, place or ministry whatsoever, nor shall be enforced, restrained, molested or burthened, in his body or goods, nor shall otherwise suffer on account of his religious opinions or belief; but that all men shall be free to profess, and by argument to maintain, their opinions in matters of religion, and that the same shall in no wise diminish, enlarge or affect their civil capacities.
Page 16 - Because we hold it for a fundamental and undeniable truth, "that Religion or the duty which we owe to our Creator and the Manner of discharging it, can be directed only by reason and conviction, not by force or violence.
Page 44 - There be three things which are too wonderful for me, yea, four which I know not: The way of an eagle in the air; the way of a serpent upon a rock; the way of a ship in the midst of the sea; and the way of a man with a maid.
Page 107 - Mr. MADISON thought it wrong to admit in the Constitution the idea that there could be property in men.
Page 104 - Religion and humanity had nothing to do with this question. Interest alone is the governing principle with nations. The true question at present is, whether the Southern States shall or shall not be parties to the Union.
Page 66 - Virginia do enact that no man shall be compelled to frequent or support any religious worship, place, or ministry whatsoever...
Page 12 - There are at this time in the adjacent county not less than five or six well-meaning men in close jail for publishing their religious sentiments, which in the main are very orthodox. I have neither patience to hear, talk, or think of anything relative to this matter; for I have squabbled and scolded, abused and ridiculed, so long about it to [so] little purpose, that I am without common patience.
Page 104 - They produce the most pernicious effect OH manners. Every master of slaves is born a petty tyrant. They bring the judgment of heaven on a country.
Page 67 - In fact, it is comfortable to see the standard of reason at length erected, after so many ages, during which the human mind has been held in vassalage by kings, priests, and nobles : and it is honorable for us, to have produced the first legislature who had the courage to declare, that the reason of man may be trusted with the formation of his own opinions.