 | Kris Fresonke, Mark David Spence, Mark Spence - History - 2004 - 300 pages
...adjacent territory; and saying to him when of age, I did this for your good; I pretend to no right to hind you: you may disavow me, and I must get out of the scrape as I can: ! thought it my duty to risk myself for you. But we shall not be disavowed by the nation, and their... | |
 | Kris Fresonke, Mark David Spence - History - 2004 - 314 pages
...this action to them as a guardian would say to a ward "when he came of age, I did this for your good; you may disavow me, and I must get out of the scrape as I can." Along with the purchase, the government presented the People with a successful exploration of the territory,... | |
 | Mark E. Kann - History - 2005 - 337 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...as I can: I thought it my duty to risk myself for you."62 Jefferson assumed the role of a national father figure who did what he thought was best and... | |
 | Harold J Krent - Law - 2005 - 288 pages
...constitutional direction.32 In a letter, he commented to Senator John C. Breckenridge regarding Congress that "I pretend to no right to bind you; you may disavow...as I can; I thought it my duty to risk myself for you."33 To Jefferson, congressional acquiescence after the fact sufficed. Andrew Jackson expanded the... | |
 | Everett Somerville Brown - History - 2005 - 265 pages
...of age, I did this for your good; yon may disavow me, and I niuat get out of the scrape as I ean : I thought it my duty to risk myself for you. But we...disavowed by the nation, "and their act of indemnity wilt coniirm and not weaken the Constitution, by more strongly marking out its lines.*" It is very... | |
 | Oren Gross, Fionnuala Ní Aoláin - Political Science - 2006 - 48 pages
...behalf of her minor ward. When the minor comes of age, the guardian must explain her actions thus: "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."114 During the process of ratification, each member of the public becomes morally and politically... | |
 | William D. Pederson, Thomas T. Samaras, Frank J. Williams - Biometry - 2007 - 216 pages
...occurrence which so much advances the good of their country, have done an act beyond the Constitution. But we shall not be disavowed by the nation, and their...and not weaken the Constitution, by more strongly making out its lines." Q Convinced of the national importance of approving the purchase, Jefferson... | |
 | Jeremy D. Bailey - Political Science - 2007 - 275 pages
...purchasing an important adjacent territory; & saying to him when of age, I did this for your good; I pretend no right to bind you: you may disavow me, and I must...can: I thought it my duty to risk myself for you." By illustrating the purchase in terms of the guardian and the ward, Jefferson meant to persuade the... | |
 | Iowa - 1887 - 654 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 you; you must disavow me, and I must get out of the scrape as I can; I thought it my duty to risk myself for... | |
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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. 
