Great Debates in American History: Colonial rights; the revolution; the ConstitutionMarion Mills Miller Current Literature Publishing Company, 1913 - Civil rights |
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... stitution . Formal debates were infrequent in colonial America , and only the substance of the few that occurred has been preserved . Accordingly it is to the recorded de- bates on colonial affairs , which took place in the British ...
... stitution . Formal debates were infrequent in colonial America , and only the substance of the few that occurred has been preserved . Accordingly it is to the recorded de- bates on colonial affairs , which took place in the British ...
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... stitution is our fundamental law . Upon its provisions rests the entire fabric of our institutions . It is the old- est of written constitutions . It has served as a model for many nations , both in the Old World and in the New . It has ...
... stitution is our fundamental law . Upon its provisions rests the entire fabric of our institutions . It is the old- est of written constitutions . It has served as a model for many nations , both in the Old World and in the New . It has ...
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... stitution , they say , " these two principles are essential , the right of your faithful subjects freely to grant to Your Majesty such aids as are required for the support of your government over them and other public exigencies , and ...
... stitution , they say , " these two principles are essential , the right of your faithful subjects freely to grant to Your Majesty such aids as are required for the support of your government over them and other public exigencies , and ...
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... stitution and American liberty ; and the same , when discovered , immediately to advise each other of , let them be of what rank or condition soever ; and they also do agree that they will mutu- ally , and to the utmost of their power ...
... stitution and American liberty ; and the same , when discovered , immediately to advise each other of , let them be of what rank or condition soever ; and they also do agree that they will mutu- ally , and to the utmost of their power ...
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... stitution as it now is . The constitution of this country has been always in a moving state , either gaining or losing something , and with respect to the modes of taxation , when we get beyond the reign of Edward I , or of King John ...
... stitution as it now is . The constitution of this country has been always in a moving state , either gaining or losing something , and with respect to the modes of taxation , when we get beyond the reign of Edward I , or of King John ...
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Page 254 - Canada, acceding to this confederation, and joining in the measures of the United States, shall be admitted into, and entitled to all the advantages of this Union. But no other colony shall be admitted into the same, unless such admission be agreed to by nine states.
Page 203 - He has refused for a long time, after such dissolutions, to cause others to be elected; whereby the Legislative Powers, incapable of Annihilation, have returned to the People at large for their exercise; the State remaining in the mean time exposed to all the dangers of invasion from without, and convulsions within.
Page 50 - Parliament assembled, had, hath, and of right ought to have, full Power and Authority to make Laws and Statutes of sufficient Force and Validity to bind the Colonies and People of America, Subjects of the Crown of Great Britain, in all cases whatsoever.
Page 248 - Full faith and credit shall be given in each of these States to the records, acts, and judicial proceedings, of the courts and magistrates of every other State.
Page 147 - Magnanimity in politics is not seldom the truest wisdom, and a great empire and little minds go ill together.
Page 253 - ... appointing all officers of the land forces in the service of the United States, excepting regimental officers; appointing all the officers of the naval forces, and commissioning all officers whatever in the service of the United States; making rules for the government and regulation of the said land and naval forces, and directing their operations. The United States in Congress assembled shall have authority to appoint a committee to sit in the recess of Congress, to be denominated "a committee...
Page 161 - Nothing. We have held the subject up in every light of which it is capable; but it has been all in vain. Shall we resort to entreaty and humble supplication? What terms shall we find, which have not been already exhausted? Let us not, I beseech you, sir, deceive ourselves longer. Sir, we have done everything that could be done, to avert the storm which is now coming on. We have petitioned; we have remonstrated; we have supplicated; we have prostrated ourselves before the throne, and have implored...
Page 175 - O ! ye that love mankind ! Ye that dare oppose not only the tyranny but the tyrant, stand forth ! Every spot of the old world is overrun with oppression. Freedom hath been hunted round the Globe. Asia and Africa have long expelled her. Europe regards her like a stranger, and England hath given her warning to depart. O ! receive the fugitive, and prepare in time an asylum for mankind.
Page 114 - I propose, by removing the ground of the difference, and by restoring the former unsuspecting confidence of the colonies in the mother country, to give permanent satisfaction to your people ; and (far from a scheme of ruling by discord) to reconcile them to each other in the same act, and by the bond of the very same interest which reconciles them to British government.
Page 114 - The proposition is peace. Not peace through the medium of war; not peace to be hunted through the labyrinth of intricate and endless negotiations; not peace to arise out of universal discord fomented from principle in all parts of the empire; not peace to depend on the juridical determination of perplexing questions, or the precise marking the shadowy boundaries of a complex government. It is simple peace, sought in its natural course and in its ordinary haunts. It is peace sought in the spirit of...