The Governmental History of the United States of America: From the Earliest Settlement to the Adoption of the Present Constitution |
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... Majesty's troops with " necessaries , required by said Act . " This was adding insult to injustice ; an attempt to force the colonial legislature to provide for the maintenance of an army quartered upon them to punish , at the point of ...
... Majesty's troops with " necessaries , required by said Act . " This was adding insult to injustice ; an attempt to force the colonial legislature to provide for the maintenance of an army quartered upon them to punish , at the point of ...
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... Majesty's American subjects , who ac- knowledge themselves bound by the ties of allegiance , have an equitable claim to the full enjoyment of the fundamental rules of the British Con- stitution ; that it is an essential , unalterable ...
... Majesty's American subjects , who ac- knowledge themselves bound by the ties of allegiance , have an equitable claim to the full enjoyment of the fundamental rules of the British Con- stitution ; that it is an essential , unalterable ...
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... Majesty's ministers and the Parliament , as fac- tious , disloyal , and having a disposition to make themselves independent of the mother country , they have taken occasion , in the most humble terms , to assure his Majesty and his ...
... Majesty's ministers and the Parliament , as fac- tious , disloyal , and having a disposition to make themselves independent of the mother country , they have taken occasion , in the most humble terms , to assure his Majesty and his ...
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... Majesty's present administration are not immortal , their successors may be inclined to attempt to undo what the present ministers shall have attempted to perform . And to that objection I can give but this answer , that it is my firm ...
... Majesty's present administration are not immortal , their successors may be inclined to attempt to undo what the present ministers shall have attempted to perform . And to that objection I can give but this answer , that it is my firm ...
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... Majesty's troops at Boston , as follows : - Philadelphia , Oct. 10 , 1774 . Sir , The inhabitants of the Town of Boston have informed us , the Representatives of his Majesty's faithful subjects in all the colonies from Nova Scotia to ...
... Majesty's troops at Boston , as follows : - Philadelphia , Oct. 10 , 1774 . Sir , The inhabitants of the Town of Boston have informed us , the Representatives of his Majesty's faithful subjects in all the colonies from Nova Scotia to ...
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Page 263 - ... 3. The trial of all crimes, except in cases of impeachment, shall be by jury; and such trial shall be held in the state where the said crimes shall have been committed; but when not committed within any state, the trial shall be at such place or places as the congress may by law have directed.
Page 228 - Congress assembled, shall have the sole and exclusive right and power of determining on peace and war, except in the cases mentioned in the sixth article: of sending and receiving ambassadors: entering into treaties and alliances: provided that no treaty of commerce shall be made whereby the legislative power of the respective States shall be restrained from imposing such imposts and duties on foreigners as their own people are subjected to, or from prohibiting the exportation or importation of any...
Page 231 - States ; and the officers, and men so clothed and equipped, shall march to the place appointed, and within the time agreed on by the United States in Congress assembled ; but if the United States in Congress assembled shall, on consideration of circumstances, judge proper that any State should not raise men, or should raise a smaller number than its quota, and that any other State should raise a greater number of men than the quota thereof, such extra number shall be raised, officered...
Page 215 - He is at this time transporting large armies of foreign mercenaries to compleat the works of death, desolation and tyranny, already begun with circumstances of Cruelty & perfidy scarcely paralleled in the most barbarous ages, and totally unworthy the Head of a civilized nation. He has constrained our fellow Citizens taken Captive on the high Seas to bear Arms against their Country, to become the executioners of their friends and Brethren, or to fall themselves by their Hands.
Page 259 - ... 2. The privilege of the writ of habeas corpus shall not be suspended, unless when, in cases of rebellion or invasion, the public safety may require it. 3. No bill of attainder, or ex post facto law, shall be passed. 4. No capitation or other direct tax shall be laid, unless in proportion to the census or enumeration herein before directed to be taken.
Page 265 - Done in convention, by the unanimous consent of the States present, the seventeenth day of September, in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and eighty-seven, and of the independence of the United States of America the twelfth.
Page 222 - States shall have liberty to take fish of every kind on such part of the coast of Newfoundland, as British fishermen shall use (but not to dry or cure the same on that island), and also on the coasts, bays, and creeks of all other of His Britannic Majesty's dominions in America...
Page 125 - They took infinite pains to inculcate, as a fundamental principle, that in all monarchies the people must in effect, themselves, mediately or immediately, possess the power of granting their own money, or no shadow of liberty could subsist.
Page 261 - The congress may determine the time of choosing the electors, and the day on which they shall give their votes ; which day shall be the same throughout the United States. 5. No person except a natural born citizen, or a citizen of the United States, at the time of the adoption of this Constitution, shall be eligible to the office of president ; neither shall any person be eligible to that office who shall not have attained to the age of thirty-five years, and been fourteen years a resident within...
Page 275 - I behold the surest pledges, that as, on one side, no local prejudices or attachments, no separate views nor party animosities, will misdirect the comprehensive and equal eye which ought to watch over this great assemblage of communities and interests...