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... - wealths , with a dual system of government , upon a repre- sentative basis , working with practical success . The peo- ple of the United States had built this new governmental [ 3 ] Studies in Constitutional History.
... - wealths , with a dual system of government , upon a repre- sentative basis , working with practical success . The peo- ple of the United States had built this new governmental [ 3 ] Studies in Constitutional History.
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... and all their hopes and fears , centered in the success of their particular form of democracy , local government by the people on a rep- resentative basis . As colonists of England , they had [ 7 ] Studies in Constitutional History.
... and all their hopes and fears , centered in the success of their particular form of democracy , local government by the people on a rep- resentative basis . As colonists of England , they had [ 7 ] Studies in Constitutional History.
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... success , their own local systems . Experience had educated them into a belief in the merits of this form of government . They had defended it repeatedly against English aggressions . The attempts to destroy or emasculate their charters ...
... success , their own local systems . Experience had educated them into a belief in the merits of this form of government . They had defended it repeatedly against English aggressions . The attempts to destroy or emasculate their charters ...
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... success of our arms , and that he is now in the service of a State possessed of sufficient power to reward his merit and advance him to the highest honors of a free country . " Some of the states , notably South Carolina and Del- aware ...
... success of our arms , and that he is now in the service of a State possessed of sufficient power to reward his merit and advance him to the highest honors of a free country . " Some of the states , notably South Carolina and Del- aware ...
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... success from the beginning . The French experiment was con- sciously inspired and influenced by , and was largely mod- eled upon , the American , and it embodied fine theories as to how the people should be governed . But it did not fit ...
... success from the beginning . The French experiment was con- sciously inspired and influenced by , and was largely mod- eled upon , the American , and it embodied fine theories as to how the people should be governed . But it did not fit ...
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Страница 91 - The people of this commonwealth have the sole and exclusive right of governing themselves, as a free, sovereign, and independent state; and do, and forever hereafter shall, exercise and enjoy every power, jurisdiction, and right, which is not, or may not hereafter be, by them expressly delegated to the United States of America, in Congress assembled.
Страница 116 - That religion, or the duty which we owe to our CREATOR, and the manner of discharging it, can be directed only by reason and conviction, not by force or violence, and therefore all men are equally entitled to the free exercise of religion, according to the dictates of conscience; and that it is the mutual duty of all to practise Christian forbearance, love, and charity, towards each other.
Страница 122 - That to suffer the civil magistrate to intrude his powers into the field of opinion, and to restrain the profession or propagation of principles on supposition of their ill tendency, is a dangerous fallacy, which at once destroys all religious liberty...
Страница 152 - However gross a heresy it may be to maintain that a party to a compact has a right to revoke that compact, the doctrine itself has had respectable advocates. The possibility of a question of this nature proves the necessity of laying the foundations of our national government deeper than in the mere sanction of delegated authority. The fabric of American empire ought to rest on the solid basis of the consent of the people. The streams of national power ought to flow immediately from that pure original...
Страница 39 - The Union of the States never was a purely artificial and arbitrary relation. It began among the colonies, and grew out of common origin, mutual sympathies, kindred principles, similar interests, and geographical relations. It was confirmed and strengthened by the necessities of war, and received definite form, and character, and sanction, from the Articles of Confederation. By these the Union was solemnly declared to "be perpetual." And, when these articles were found to be inadequate to the exigencies...
Страница 90 - And further, full power and authority are hereby given and granted to the said General Court, from time to time, to make, ordain, and establish, all manner of wholesome and reasonable orders, laws, statutes, and ordinances, directions and instructions...
Страница 92 - ... colony; but that all and everye person and persons may, from tyme to tyme, and at all tymes hereafter, freelye and fullye have and enjoye his and theire owne judgments and consciences, in matters of religious concernments...
Страница 223 - There are limitations on such power which grow out of the essential nature of all free governments. Implied reservations of individual rights, without which the social compact could not exist, and which are respected by all governments entitled to the name.
Страница 157 - Virginia declare and make known that the powers granted under the Constitution being derived from the People of the United States may be resumed by them whensoever the same shall be perverted to their injury or oppression...
Страница 131 - Paris, if wrested from the common enemy by the blood and treasure of the thirteen states, should be considered as a common property, subject to be parcelled out by Congress into free, convenient and independent governments, in such manner and at such times as the wisdom of that assembly shall hereafter direct.