Letters and Addresses of Thomas JeffersonUnit Book Publishing Company, 1905 - 328 páginas |
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... federal head , by diverting the attention of that head from great to small subjects ; and should this division of power not be recommended by the convention , it is my opinion Congress should make it itself by establishing an executive ...
... federal head , by diverting the attention of that head from great to small subjects ; and should this division of power not be recommended by the convention , it is my opinion Congress should make it itself by establishing an executive ...
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... federal government could be put . If ever they thought wrong about it , I trust they have got to rights . I should think it proper for the western country to defer pushing their right to that navigation to extremity , as long as they ...
... federal government could be put . If ever they thought wrong about it , I trust they have got to rights . I should think it proper for the western country to defer pushing their right to that navigation to extremity , as long as they ...
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... federal champions are now strengthened in argument by the fulfilment of their predictions ; that this has been brought about by the monarchical federalists themselves , who , having been for the new government merely as a stepping ...
... federal champions are now strengthened in argument by the fulfilment of their predictions ; that this has been brought about by the monarchical federalists themselves , who , having been for the new government merely as a stepping ...
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... federal government can ever exist . If to rid ourselves of the present rule of Massachusetts and Connecticut , we break the Union , will the evil stop there ? Suppose the New Eng- land States alone cut off , will our nature be changed ...
... federal government can ever exist . If to rid ourselves of the present rule of Massachusetts and Connecticut , we break the Union , will the evil stop there ? Suppose the New Eng- land States alone cut off , will our nature be changed ...
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... federal government the power of borrowing . I now deny their power of making paper money or anything else a legal tender . I know that to pay all proper expenses within the year , would , in case of war , be hard on us . But not so hard ...
... federal government the power of borrowing . I now deny their power of making paper money or anything else a legal tender . I know that to pay all proper expenses within the year , would , in case of war , be hard on us . But not so hard ...
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Página 138 - ... the preservation of the general government in its whole constitutional vigor, as the sheet-anchor of our peace at home and safety abroad ; a jealous care of the right of election by the people, a mild and safe corrective of abuses which are lopped by the sword of revolution where peaceable remedies are unprovided; absolute acquiescence in the decisions of the majority, the...
Página 18 - 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 meantime, exposed to all the dangers of invasion from without, and convulsions within.
Página 139 - ... freedom of religion, freedom of the press, and freedom of person, under the protection of the Habeas Corpus; and trial by juries impartially selected. These principles form the bright constellation which has gone before us, and guided our steps through an age of revolution and reformation.
Página 27 - The whole commerce between master and slave is a perpetual exercise of the most boisterous passions, the most unremitting despotism on the one part, and degrading submission on the other.
Página 133 - States of all powers whatsoever: That they will view this as seizing the rights of the States and consolidating them in the hands of the General Government with...
Página 54 - I hold it that a little rebellion now and then is a good thing, and as necessary in the political world as storms in the physical.
Página 9 - Are not my days few? cease then, And let me alone, that I may take comfort a little, Before I go whence I shall not return, Even to the land of darkness and the shadow of death; A land of darkness, as darkness itself; And of the shadow of death, without any order, And where the light is as darkness.
Página 29 - The legitimate powers of government extend to such acts only as are injurious to others. But it does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods, or no God. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg.
Página 20 - Nor have we been wanting in attentions to our British Brethren We have warned them...
Página 20 - And that this assemblage of horrors might want no fact of distinguished die, he is now exciting those very people to rise in arms among us, and to purchase that liberty of which he has deprived them, by murdering the people on whom he also obtruded them: thus paying off former crimes committed against the LIBERTIES of one people with crimes which he urges them to commit against the LIVES of another...