Sources and Documents Illustrating the American Revolution, 1764-1788: And the Formation of the Federal ConstitutionSamuel Eliot Morison |
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... interest , and that of their families , friends , and posterity , cannot be different from the interest of the rest of the nation . A regard to the former will therefore direct to such measures as must promote the latter . But is this ...
... interest , and that of their families , friends , and posterity , cannot be different from the interest of the rest of the nation . A regard to the former will therefore direct to such measures as must promote the latter . But is this ...
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... interests , the landed interest , and the commercial , including the stockholders . To draw both branches from the people will leave no security to the latter interest ; the people being chiefly composed of the landed interest , and ...
... interests , the landed interest , and the commercial , including the stockholders . To draw both branches from the people will leave no security to the latter interest ; the people being chiefly composed of the landed interest , and ...
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... interest than the minority . It was surely better to let the latter be bound hand and foot than the former . Great ... interest of Connecticut and New Jersey , which were agricultural , not commercial States ; by the interior interest ...
... interest than the minority . It was surely better to let the latter be bound hand and foot than the former . Great ... interest of Connecticut and New Jersey , which were agricultural , not commercial States ; by the interior interest ...
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