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... delegates , which were read in Congress , May 21 , 1779 , after the accession of Delaware , as above stated , forbidding them to ratify the Articles of Confederation before the land claims had been placed upon a different basis , must ...
... delegates , which were read in Congress , May 21 , 1779 , after the accession of Delaware , as above stated , forbidding them to ratify the Articles of Confederation before the land claims had been placed upon a different basis , must ...
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... delegates of the other States . The Instructions were to be read , in the presence of Congress , at some later period , and formally entered upon the journals of that body . We find that the Declaration was really brought forward , by ...
... delegates of the other States . The Instructions were to be read , in the presence of Congress , at some later period , and formally entered upon the journals of that body . We find that the Declaration was really brought forward , by ...
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... North Carolina voting in the negative . The New York delegates were divided . 1See p . 15 . Journals of Congress , III . , p . 384 . 792 These steps bring us to the famous Remonstrance , which 28 Maryland's Influence upon.
... North Carolina voting in the negative . The New York delegates were divided . 1See p . 15 . Journals of Congress , III . , p . 384 . 792 These steps bring us to the famous Remonstrance , which 28 Maryland's Influence upon.
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... delegates of the United American States in Congress assembled . " The connecting link between the Maryland Instructions and Virginia's Remonstrance is supplied by the above Resolution of Mr. Paca . Virginia protests against the idea of ...
... delegates of the United American States in Congress assembled . " The connecting link between the Maryland Instructions and Virginia's Remonstrance is supplied by the above Resolution of Mr. Paca . Virginia protests against the idea of ...
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... delegates in Congress has never been shown , but from materials now accessible in a letter of General Schuyler ... delegate to Congress from New York in 1779. On the twenty - ninth of January , 1780 , he addressed a letter from Albany ...
... delegates in Congress has never been shown , but from materials now accessible in a letter of General Schuyler ... delegate to Congress from New York in 1779. On the twenty - ninth of January , 1780 , he addressed a letter from Albany ...
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Página 10 - ... to the northward two hundred miles, and from the said point of Cape Comfort all along the sea coast to the southward two hundred miles, and all that space and circuit of land lying from the sea coast of the precinct aforesaid...
Página 35 - That no man, or set of men, are entitled to exclusive or separate emoluments or privileges from the community, but in consideration of public services ; which not being descendible, neither ought the offices of magistrate, legislator, or judge, to be hereditary.
Página 95 - For these reasons it has been my ardent wish to see a plan devised on a liberal scale which would have a tendency to spread systematic ideas through all parts of this rising Empire, thereby to do away local attachments and state prejudices as far as the nature of things would, or indeed ought to admit, from our national councils.
Página 34 - It is as much the duty of the House of Representatives, of the Senate, and of the President to decide upon the constitutionality of any bill or resolution which may be presented to them for passage or approval as it is of the supreme judges when it may be brought before them for judicial decision.
Página 23 - as the British Constitution is the most subtle organism which has proceeded from progressive history, so the American Constitution is the most wonderful work ever struck off at a given time by the brain and purpose of man.
Página 87 - I need not remark to you, Sir, that the flanks and rear of the United States are possessed by other powers, and formidable ones too; nor how necessary it is to apply the cement of interest to bind all parts of the Union together by indissoluble bonds, especially that part of it, which lies immediately west of us, with the middle States. For what ties, let me ask, should we have upon...
Página 95 - I proceed after this recital, for the more correct understanding of the case, to declare; that, as it has always been a source of serious regret with me, to see the youth of these United States sent to foreign countries for the purpose of education, often before their minds were formed, or they had imbibed any adequate ideas of the happiness of their own ; contracting too frequently, not only habits of dissipation and extravagance, but principles unfriendly to republican government, and to the true...
Página 48 - The Congress is the legislative department of the government; the President is the executive department. Neither can be restrained in its action by the judicial department; though the acts. of both, when performed, are, in proper cases, subject to its cognizance.
Página 3 - We, the people of the State of Illinois — grateful to Almighty God for the civil, political and religious liberty which He hath so long permitted us to enjoy, and looking to Him for a blessing upon our endeavors to secure and transmit the same unimpaired to succeeding generations...
Página 46 - I doubt whether one single law of any lawgiver, ancient or modern, has produced effects of more distinct, marked, and lasting character than the Ordinance of 1787.