A History of Georgia: From Its First Discovery by Europeans to the Adoption of the Present Constitution in MDCCXCVIII, Том 2D. Appleton and Company, 1859 - 522 страници |
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Страница 386 - for the sole and express purpose of revising the Articles of Confederation, and reporting to Congress, and the several Legislatures, such alterations and provisions therein as shall, when agreed to in Congress, and confirmed by the States, render the Federal Constitution adequate to the exigencies of government and the preservation of the Union.
Страница 113 - are repealed; and until the two acts passed in the present session of Parliament, the one entitled, 'A Bill to restrain the Trade and Commerce of the Colonies of New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Maryland, Virginia, and South Carolina, to Great Britain, Ireland, and the British Islands in the West Indies, under certain Conditions and Limitations;
Страница 113 - with any colony or province in North America, which shall not accede to, or which shall hereafter violate, this Association; but will hold them as unworthy of the rights of freemen, and as inimical to the liberties of their country. " And we do solemnly bind ourselves and our constituents, under the ties of virtue,
Страница 385 - appoint, by joint consent, commissioners or judges, to constitute a court for hearing and determining the matter in question, agreeably to the ninth article of the Confederation.
Страница 112 - majority do forthwith cause the truth of the case to be published in the Gazette, to the end that all such foes to the rights of British America may be publicly known, and universally contemned as the enemies of American liberty; and thenceforth we will break
Страница 104 - the alarming state of American affairs, based on the words of St. James, ii, 12 : " So speak ye, and so do as they that shall be judged by the law of liberty.
Страница 111 - That we will, in our several stations, encourage frugality, economy, and industry, and promote agriculture, arts, and the manufactures of British America, especially that of wool; and will discountenance and discourage every species of extravagance and dissipation, especially horse-racing, and every kind of gaming, cock-fighting,
Страница 111 - any such goods or merchandise on higher terms, or shall in any manner, or by any device whatsoever, violate or depart from this agreement, no person ought, nor will any of us, deal with any such person, or his or her factor or agent, at any time thereafter, for any commodity whatever.
Страница 109 - province any goods, wares, or merchandise, shipped from Great Britain or Ireland, or from any other place, any such goods, wares, or merchandise, as shall have been exported from Great Britain or Ireland after this day; nor will we import any East India tea from any part of the world ; nor any molasses, syrups, paneles, coffee, or pimento;