History of the Formation of the Constitution of the United States of America, Volume 2D. Appleton, 1882 - United States |
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... carrying places declared free , 101- The Connecticut reserve , 101- The proposed five states in the northwest , 102 -Jealousy of the western states , 103 , 104 - Kaskaskias , 103 - Urgent need of a territorial government , 104 ...
... carrying places declared free , 101- The Connecticut reserve , 101- The proposed five states in the northwest , 102 -Jealousy of the western states , 103 , 104 - Kaskaskias , 103 - Urgent need of a territorial government , 104 ...
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... carried by Massachusetts , Pennsylvania , Virginia , and the two Carolinas , on this day aided by Delaware . Alexander Hamilton of New York next moved that " the rights of suffrage in the national legisla ture ought to be proportioned ...
... carried by Massachusetts , Pennsylvania , Virginia , and the two Carolinas , on this day aided by Delaware . Alexander Hamilton of New York next moved that " the rights of suffrage in the national legisla ture ought to be proportioned ...
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... carry into effect the national laws and to ap- point to offices in cases not otherwise provided for . " ' On the mode of appointing the executive , Wilson said : " Chimerical as it may appear in theory , I am for an election by the ...
... carry into effect the national laws and to ap- point to offices in cases not otherwise provided for . " ' On the mode of appointing the executive , Wilson said : " Chimerical as it may appear in theory , I am for an election by the ...
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... carried by eight states against Connecticut and Maryland . " In a convention composed chiefly of lawyers , the organization of the judiciary engaged eager attention ; at the close of a long sitting , the Virginia resolution , 1 Gilpin ...
... carried by eight states against Connecticut and Maryland . " In a convention composed chiefly of lawyers , the organization of the judiciary engaged eager attention ; at the close of a long sitting , the Virginia resolution , 1 Gilpin ...
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... carry their acts into execution , as the national government will now have . " The vote was then taken , and the choice of the second branch or senate was with one consent intrusted to the individual legislatures . In this way the ...
... carry their acts into execution , as the national government will now have . " The vote was then taken , and the choice of the second branch or senate was with one consent intrusted to the individual legislatures . In this way the ...
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Page 376 - All charges of war, and all other expenses that shall be incurred for the common defence or general welfare, and allowed by the United States in Congress assembled, shall be defrayed out of a common treasury...
Page 363 - Heaven itself has ordained; and since the preservation of the sacred fire of liberty, and the destiny of the republican model of government, are justly considered as .deeply, perhaps as finally staked, on the experiment intrusted to the hands of the American people.
Page 159 - I congratulate you, fellow-citizens, on the approach of the period at which you may interpose your authority constitutionally, to withdraw the citizens of the United States from all further participation in those violations of human rights which have been so long continued on the unoffending inhabitants of Africa, and which the morality, the reputation, and the best interests of our country, have long been eager to proscribe.
Page 219 - On the whole, sir, I cannot help expressing a wish that every member of the Convention, who may still have objections to it, would with me, on this occasion, doubt a little of his own infallibility and, to make manifest our unanimity, put his name to this instrument.
Page 18 - Confederation, and moreover to legislate in all cases to which the separate States are incompetent, or in which the harmony of the United States may be interrupted by the exercise of individual legislation ; to negative all laws passed by the several States contravening, in the opinion of the National Legislature, the Articles of Union, or any treaty subsisting under the authority of the Union...
Page 363 - I have, in obedience to the public summons, repaired to the present station, it would be peculiarly improper to omit in this first official act, my fervent supplications to that Almighty Being, who rules over the universe, who presides in the councils of nations, and whose providential aids can supply every human defect, that his benediction may consecrate to the liberties and happiness of the people of the United States...
Page 153 - This infernal traffic originated in the avarice of British merchants. The British GOvernment constantly checked the attempts of Virginia to put a stop to it. The present question concerns not the importing States alone, but the whole Union.
Page 127 - In future times a great majority of the people will not only be without landed, but any other sort of property. These will either combine under the influence of their common situation; in which case, the rights of property and the public liberty, will not be secure in their hands; or which is more probable, they will become the tools of opulence and ambition...
Page 19 - The use of force against a state would look more like a declaration of war than an infliction of punishment, and would probably be considered by the party attacked as a dissolution of all previous compacts by which it might be bound.
Page 8 - It is too probable that no plan we propose will be adopted. Perhaps another dreadful conflict is to be sustained. If, to please the people, we offer what we ourselves disapprove, how can we afterwards defend our work ? Let us raise a standard to which the wise and the honest can repair : the event is in the hand of God.