Great Debates in American History: Colonial rights; the revolution; the ConstitutionMarion Mills Miller Current Literature Publishing Company, 1913 |
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... object , therefore , was to make it certain that there should be abundant time for discus- sion and consideration , that the public mind should be thoroughly and well informed , and that the movements of the machinery of government ...
... object , therefore , was to make it certain that there should be abundant time for discus- sion and consideration , that the public mind should be thoroughly and well informed , and that the movements of the machinery of government ...
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... object of their dread . Soon after George Grenville became Prime Minister , the project of imposing internal taxes in America was carried into effect . In the winter of 1764 that minister called together the agents of the colonies , and ...
... object of their dread . Soon after George Grenville became Prime Minister , the project of imposing internal taxes in America was carried into effect . In the winter of 1764 that minister called together the agents of the colonies , and ...
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... objects that it would " execute itself . " Apprehensive , however , of opposition , the government passed a bill during the same session authorizing the quartering of the troops in the colonies , and directing the assemblies to furnish ...
... objects that it would " execute itself . " Apprehensive , however , of opposition , the government passed a bill during the same session authorizing the quartering of the troops in the colonies , and directing the assemblies to furnish ...
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... object of which asso- ciation was in reality to prevent , by force if necessary , the execution of the act , under the pretence of maintain- ing unimpaired the principles of the British constitu- tion , of which they declared the act to ...
... object of which asso- ciation was in reality to prevent , by force if necessary , the execution of the act , under the pretence of maintain- ing unimpaired the principles of the British constitu- tion , of which they declared the act to ...
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... object to the right ; I repeatedly asked it , and no man would attempt to deny it . Protection and obedience are reciprocal . Great Britain protects America ; America is bound to yield obedience . If not , tell me when the Americans ...
... object to the right ; I repeatedly asked it , and no man would attempt to deny it . Protection and obedience are reciprocal . Great Britain protects America ; America is bound to yield obedience . If not , tell me when the Americans ...
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Страница 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.
Страница 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.
Страница 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.
Страница 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.
Страница 147 - Magnanimity in politics is not seldom the truest wisdom, and a great empire and little minds go ill together.
Страница 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...
Страница 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...
Страница 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.
Страница 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.
Страница 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...