Sources and Documents Illustrating the American Revolution, 1764-1788, and the Formation of the Federal ConstitutionSamuel Eliot Morison |
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... resolved itself into the question whether Virginia would ratify with express reservations ; or unconditionally , with recommendation that a bill of rights be shortly added by amendment ( p . 352 ) . Although Patrick Henry invoked the ...
... resolved itself into the question whether Virginia would ratify with express reservations ; or unconditionally , with recommendation that a bill of rights be shortly added by amendment ( p . 352 ) . Although Patrick Henry invoked the ...
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... Resolved , That the first adventurers and settlers of this His Majesty's Colony and Dominion of Virginia brought with them , and transmitted to their posterity , and all other His Majesty's subjects since inhabiting in this His ...
... Resolved , That the first adventurers and settlers of this His Majesty's Colony and Dominion of Virginia brought with them , and transmitted to their posterity , and all other His Majesty's subjects since inhabiting in this His ...
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... Resolved , That His Majesty's liege people , the inhabitants of this Colony , are not bound to yield obedience to any law or ordinance whatever , designed to impose any taxation whatsoever upon them , other than the laws or ordinances ...
... Resolved , That His Majesty's liege people , the inhabitants of this Colony , are not bound to yield obedience to any law or ordinance whatever , designed to impose any taxation whatsoever upon them , other than the laws or ordinances ...
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... resolved to give and grant the several rates and duties imposed by the Act ; but what right had the Commons of Great Britain to be thus munificent at the expence of the Commons of America ? To give property not belonging to the giver ...
... resolved to give and grant the several rates and duties imposed by the Act ; but what right had the Commons of Great Britain to be thus munificent at the expence of the Commons of America ? To give property not belonging to the giver ...
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... resolved to give and grant unto Your Majesty the several rates and duties herein after mentioned , ' etc. 6 A few months after came the Stamp Act , which reciting this , proceeds in the same strange mode of expression , thus : And ...
... resolved to give and grant unto Your Majesty the several rates and duties herein after mentioned , ' etc. 6 A few months after came the Stamp Act , which reciting this , proceeds in the same strange mode of expression , thus : And ...
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