Sources and Documents Illustrating the American Revolution, 1764-1788, and the Formation of the Federal ConstitutionSamuel Eliot Morison |
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... Legislature of Great Britain , briefly consider'd , 1765 From Daniel Dulany's Considerations on the Propriety of imposing Taxes in the British Colonies . • Parliament , 1765 . 18 • by Act of . • 24 32 • 34 Resolutions of the Stamp Act ...
... Legislature of Great Britain , briefly consider'd , 1765 From Daniel Dulany's Considerations on the Propriety of imposing Taxes in the British Colonies . • Parliament , 1765 . 18 • by Act of . • 24 32 • 34 Resolutions of the Stamp Act ...
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... legislature broke the deadlock , early in 1780 , by promising to cede its western land claims to the United States ; and Congress urged the others to do likewise . On 10 October 1780 Congress I Channing , United States , iii , chapter ...
... legislature broke the deadlock , early in 1780 , by promising to cede its western land claims to the United States ; and Congress urged the others to do likewise . On 10 October 1780 Congress I Channing , United States , iii , chapter ...
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... legislature . Virginia's constitution of 1776 ( pp . 149–56 ) was the first successful state constitution , and a model to most of the other states . George Mason , a wealthy planter steeped in the traditions of English liberty ...
... legislature . Virginia's constitution of 1776 ( pp . 149–56 ) was the first successful state constitution , and a model to most of the other states . George Mason , a wealthy planter steeped in the traditions of English liberty ...
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... legislature and a plural executive . Although the standard of the radicals , this constitution was a most unsuccessful experiment ; imitated only by the frontier state of Vermont , and superseded in Pennsylvania as early as 1790 . The ...
... legislature and a plural executive . Although the standard of the radicals , this constitution was a most unsuccessful experiment ; imitated only by the frontier state of Vermont , and superseded in Pennsylvania as early as 1790 . The ...
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... legislature : that the refusal of this would seem to be a contradiction in practice to the theory of the constitu- tion that the colonies are subordinate dominions , and are now in such a state , as to make it best for the good of the ...
... legislature : that the refusal of this would seem to be a contradiction in practice to the theory of the constitu- tion that the colonies are subordinate dominions , and are now in such a state , as to make it best for the good of the ...
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