 | Westel Woodbury Willoughby - Constitutional law - 1910 - 728 pages
...money of the ward in purchasing an important adjacent territory, and saying to him when of age: 'I did this for your good; I pretend to no right to bind you: yon may disavow me and I must get out of the scrape as best I can : I thought it my duty to risk myself... | |
 | Marion Mills Miller - Civil rights - 1913 - 582 pages
...the money of his ward in purchasing an important adjacent territory and saying to him when of age, 'I did this for your good ; I pretend to no right to...can; I thought it my duty to risk myself for you.' " The policy suggested by the President was followed by the Democratic Senators with great tactical... | |
 | Sterling Edwin Edmunds - Civil rights - 1925 - 484 pages
...the money of his ward in purchasing an important adjacent territory, and saying to him when of age, I did this for your good ; I pretend to no right to...as I can. I thought it my duty to risk myself for you.18 Poor Jefferson ! How simple and punctiliously conscientious he was to think that a Constitutional... | |
 | 1925 - 504 pages
...the money of his ward in purchasing an important adjacent territory, and saying to him when of age, I did this for your good; I pretend to no right to bind...out of the scrape as I can. I thought it my duty," &c. In a letter to Wm. C. Nichols*, Sept. 7, 1803, he says:— "I am aware of the force of the observations... | |
 | Ramsay Muir, George Philip - Atlases - 1927 - 240 pages
..."It is the case of a guardian investing the money of his ward . . . and saying to him when of age, 'I did this for your good; I pretend to no right to bind...can; I thought it my duty to risk myself for you.'" By this purchase, Jefferson solved permanently the most pressing economic question of the dawning west.... | |
 | United States - 1788 - 568 pages
...the money of his ward in purchasing an important adjacent territory ; & saying to him when of age, I did this for your good ; I pretend to no right to...the nation, and their act of indemnity will confirm & not weaken the Constitution, by more strongly marking out its lines. JEFFERSON TO JOHN DICKINSON.... | |
 | Horace Greeley - Slavery - 1864 - 696 pages
...money of his ward in purchasing an important adjacent territory ; and saying to him, when of age, 'I did this for your good ; I pretend to no right to bind yon : TOU may disavow me, and I must get out of the scrape as I can. I thought it my duty to risk myself... | |
 | Philip Abbott - Biography & Autobiography - 1996 - 302 pages
...almost asks for forgiveness. The belated president repeats Jefferson's words: "I did this for your own good; I pretend to no right to bind you; you may disavow...can; I thought it my duty to risk myself for you." Jefferson even told Breckenridge that later developments might lead to secession: "If they see their... | |
 | Everett Somerville Brown - History - 2000 - 270 pages
...ward in purchasing an adjacent territory; and saying to him when of age, I did this for your good; you may disavow me, and I must get out of the scrape...it my duty to risk myself for you. But we shall not bo disavowed by the nation, and their act of indemnity will confirm and not weaken the Constitution,... | |
 | Daniel A. Farber - Biography & Autobiography - 2003 - 272 pages
...land purchase on behalf of his ward. When the ward came of age, the guardian would have to say, "I did this for your good; I pretend to no right to bind...as I can: I thought it my duty to risk myself for you."33 Jefferson's argument was that a president must sometimes go beyond the law, but he did not... | |
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I did this for your good ; I pretend to no right to bind you ; you may disavow me, and I must get out of the scrape as I can ; I thought it my duty to risk myself for you. 
