Sources and Documents Illustrating the American Revolution, 1764-1788, and the Formation of the Federal ConstitutionSamuel Eliot Morison |
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... present editor admits that the pleasure of doing it has more than repaid him for the trouble . For his students , he has no apology for in- cluding large excerpts from debates , rather than constitutional documents in the stricter sense ...
... present editor admits that the pleasure of doing it has more than repaid him for the trouble . For his students , he has no apology for in- cluding large excerpts from debates , rather than constitutional documents in the stricter sense ...
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... presents the results of important research during the last decade . Sir G. O. Trevelyan's American Revolution , 6 vols . ( Long- mans , 1917 ) , is the final issue of a work first published in many parts and titles . Covering the period ...
... presents the results of important research during the last decade . Sir G. O. Trevelyan's American Revolution , 6 vols . ( Long- mans , 1917 ) , is the final issue of a work first published in many parts and titles . Covering the period ...
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... present Federal Government with illicit trade , were remark- ably successful ; but they bore with excessive severity on the merchants and shipowners of the northern colonies , where trade was already slack , and the silver required for ...
... present Federal Government with illicit trade , were remark- ably successful ; but they bore with excessive severity on the merchants and shipowners of the northern colonies , where trade was already slack , and the silver required for ...
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... present American - Canadian boundary as a compromise . American independence meant , among other things , that the same western problems which formerly vexed Whitehall now had to be faced by Congress . As regards the Indians , little ...
... present American - Canadian boundary as a compromise . American independence meant , among other things , that the same western problems which formerly vexed Whitehall now had to be faced by Congress . As regards the Indians , little ...
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... present cogent arguments for independence . Provincial congresses began to instruct their Continental delegates in that sense ( p . 146 ) . On 6 April Congress declared American commerce open to the world . In May , it instructed the ...
... present cogent arguments for independence . Provincial congresses began to instruct their Continental delegates in that sense ( p . 146 ) . On 6 April Congress declared American commerce open to the world . In May , it instructed the ...
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