On Civil Liberty and Self-government, Volume 2Lippincott, Grambo and Company, 1853 - Democracy |
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... Assemblies were brought to him , and he de- posited them upon the " Altar of the Country , " amid the firing of cannon , and the rejoicing of the people , who swore to defend the constitution with their lives . On the 2d December ...
... Assemblies were brought to him , and he de- posited them upon the " Altar of the Country , " amid the firing of cannon , and the rejoicing of the people , who swore to defend the constitution with their lives . On the 2d December ...
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... assemblies of trustees , of representatives or boards . I must also remark that I shall always use the term elec- tion for direct elections , in which the voter votes directly upon the question at issue , and not for a person who will ...
... assemblies of trustees , of representatives or boards . I must also remark that I shall always use the term elec- tion for direct elections , in which the voter votes directly upon the question at issue , and not for a person who will ...
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... assemblies of trustees , of representatives or boards . I must also remark that I shall always use the term elec- tion for direct elections , in which the voter votes directly upon the question at issue , and not for a person who will ...
... assemblies of trustees , of representatives or boards . I must also remark that I shall always use the term elec- tion for direct elections , in which the voter votes directly upon the question at issue , and not for a person who will ...
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... assembly . This reward was called ec- clesiasticon . Why there should have been at Athens so many more abstainers than generally in modern times , may be explained , probably , on the ground that many citizens were habitually absent as ...
... assembly . This reward was called ec- clesiasticon . Why there should have been at Athens so many more abstainers than generally in modern times , may be explained , probably , on the ground that many citizens were habitually absent as ...
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... assemblies of trustees , of representatives or boards . I must also remark that I shall always use the term elec- tion for direct elections , in which the voter votes directly upon the question at issue , and not for a person who will ...
... assemblies of trustees , of representatives or boards . I must also remark that I shall always use the term elec- tion for direct elections , in which the voter votes directly upon the question at issue , and not for a person who will ...
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Page 120 - That levying money for or to the use of the Crown by pretence of prerogative, without grant of Parliament, for longer time or in other manner than the same is or shall be granted, is illegal.
Page 132 - And the Articles of this Confederation shall be inviolably observed by every State, and the Union shall be perpetual ; nor shall any alteration at any time hereafter be made in any of them, unless such alteration be agreed to in a Congress of the United States, and be afterwards confirmed by the legislatures of every State.
Page 131 - ... absent or refusing ; and the judgment and sentence of the court, to be appointed in the manner before prescribed, shall be final and conclusive...
Page 131 - States or any of them, nor emit bills, nor borrow money on the credit of the United States, nor appropriate money, nor agree upon the number of vessels of war to be built or purchased, or the number of land or sea forces to be raised, nor appoint a commander in chief of the army or navy, unless nine states assent to the same...
Page 127 - He is, at this time, transporting large armies of foreign mercenaries to complete the works of death, desolation, and tyranny, already begun, with circumstances of cruelty and perfidy scarcely paralleled in the most barbarous ages, and totally unworthy the head of a civilized nation.
Page 132 - ... and we do further solemnly plight and engage the faith of our respective constituents, that they shall abide by the determinations of the United States in congress assembled, on all questions, which by the said confederation are submitted to them; and that the articles thereof shall be inviolably observed by the states we respectively represent, and that the union shall be perpetual.
Page 103 - No freeman shall be taken, or imprisoned, or be disseised of his freehold, or liberties, or free customs, or be outlawed or exiled, or any otherwise destroyed; nor will we pass upon him, nor condemn him, but by lawful judgment of his peers, or by the law of the land.
Page 120 - That the pretended power of suspending of laws, or the execution of laws by regal authority, without consent of Parliament, is illegal.
Page 120 - ... principal persons of the commons) cause letters to be written to the lords spiritual and temporal, being Protestants; and other letters to the several counties, cities, universities, boroughs and Cinque ports for the choosing of such persons to represent them, as were of right to be sent to parliament, to meet and sit at Westminster...
Page 121 - To which Demand of their Rights they are particularly encouraged by the Declaration of his Highness the Prince of Orange as being the only means for obtaining a full Redress and Remedy therein.