Great Debates in American History: Colonial rights; the revolution; the ConstitutionMarion Mills Miller Current Literature Publishing Company, 1913 |
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... secure and preserve to Rome her distant colonies than all the legions she was ever mistress of , or could at any time command . Should the House , after all , be of opinion that Parliament possessed this summum jus , it should be ...
... secure and preserve to Rome her distant colonies than all the legions she was ever mistress of , or could at any time command . Should the House , after all , be of opinion that Parliament possessed this summum jus , it should be ...
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... in their answers assured His Majesty of their determination to make such provision as should secure the just dependence of the colonies and due obedience to the laws throughout all his dominions . On TAXATION AND REPRESENTATION 81.
... in their answers assured His Majesty of their determination to make such provision as should secure the just dependence of the colonies and due obedience to the laws throughout all his dominions . On TAXATION AND REPRESENTATION 81.
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... secure the due execution of the laws in the colonies some further provision was deemed necessary by Par- liament . A third law therefore soon after passed , " for the impartial administration of justice in the cases of persons ...
... secure the due execution of the laws in the colonies some further provision was deemed necessary by Par- liament . A third law therefore soon after passed , " for the impartial administration of justice in the cases of persons ...
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... secure a pious and gallant nation from the popery and despotism of a superstitious and inexorable tyrant . Your Majesty , we are confident , justly rejoices that your title to the crown is thus founded on the title of your people to ...
... secure a pious and gallant nation from the popery and despotism of a superstitious and inexorable tyrant . Your Majesty , we are confident , justly rejoices that your title to the crown is thus founded on the title of your people to ...
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... secure liberty and happiness to man . " I cannot forbear telling you that I look to my countrymen with the feelings of one who verily believes they must yet seal their faith and constancy to their liberties with blood . " CHATHAM'S ...
... secure liberty and happiness to man . " I cannot forbear telling you that I look to my countrymen with the feelings of one who verily believes they must yet seal their faith and constancy to their liberties with blood . " CHATHAM'S ...
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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...