The Governmental History of the United States of America: From the Earliest Settlement to the Adoption of the Present ConstitutionM.H. Newman, 1843 - 282 էջ |
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... nature of the Union . - The early Confederation of the Colonies of New England . Articles for a General Union of the Colonies proposed and adopt- ed by the Convention at New York in 1754 .-- Defects of the present Articles of ...
... nature of the Union . - The early Confederation of the Colonies of New England . Articles for a General Union of the Colonies proposed and adopt- ed by the Convention at New York in 1754 .-- Defects of the present Articles of ...
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... nature of their correspon- dence with each other , were not such as to demonstrate to them either the utility or importance of the science of navigation , or greatly to encourage its cultivation . We are told by the writers of antiquity ...
... nature of their correspon- dence with each other , were not such as to demonstrate to them either the utility or importance of the science of navigation , or greatly to encourage its cultivation . We are told by the writers of antiquity ...
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... nature of the soil and the climate , took possession of them in the name of the crown of England , and embarked , taking with him three of the natives . Holding his course still to the west he reached the continent of North America ...
... nature of the soil and the climate , took possession of them in the name of the crown of England , and embarked , taking with him three of the natives . Holding his course still to the west he reached the continent of North America ...
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... natural course of things the principles of civil liberty were here developed and grew . While but a handful of needy adventurers , they readily yielded to the control of a company on whose supplies and pro- tection their very existence ...
... natural course of things the principles of civil liberty were here developed and grew . While but a handful of needy adventurers , they readily yielded to the control of a company on whose supplies and pro- tection their very existence ...
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... nature of these provisions was not felt during the mild and liberal administration of Governor Yeardly . He was succeeded in 1629 by Sir John Harvey , a man of a rapacious and tyrannical spirit , in- solent and overbearing in his ...
... nature of these provisions was not felt during the mild and liberal administration of Governor Yeardly . He was succeeded in 1629 by Sir John Harvey , a man of a rapacious and tyrannical spirit , in- solent and overbearing in his ...
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The Governmental History of the United States of America: From the Earliest ... Henry Sherman Ամբողջությամբ դիտվող - 1860 |
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Էջ 263 - ... 3. The trial of all crimes, except in cases of impeachment, shall be by jury; and such trial shall be held in the state where the said crimes shall have been committed; but when not committed within any state, the trial shall be at such place or places as the congress may by law have directed.
Էջ 228 - Congress assembled, shall have the sole and exclusive right and power of determining on peace and war, except in the cases mentioned in the sixth article: of sending and receiving ambassadors: entering into treaties and alliances: provided that no treaty of commerce shall be made whereby the legislative power of the respective States shall be restrained from imposing such imposts and duties on foreigners as their own people are subjected to, or from prohibiting the exportation or importation of any...
Էջ 231 - States ; and the officers, and men so clothed and equipped, shall march to the place appointed, and within the time agreed on by the United States in Congress assembled ; but if the United States in Congress assembled shall, on consideration of circumstances, judge proper that any State should not raise men, or should raise a smaller number than its quota, and that any other State should raise a greater number of men than the quota thereof, such extra number shall be raised, officered...
Էջ 215 - He is at this time transporting large armies of foreign mercenaries to compleat the works of death, desolation and tyranny, already begun with circumstances of Cruelty & perfidy scarcely paralleled in the most barbarous ages, and totally unworthy the Head of a civilized nation. He has constrained our fellow Citizens taken Captive on the high Seas to bear Arms against their Country, to become the executioners of their friends and Brethren, or to fall themselves by their Hands.
Էջ 259 - ... 2. The privilege of the writ of habeas corpus shall not be suspended, unless when, in cases of rebellion or invasion, the public safety may require it. 3. No bill of attainder, or ex post facto law, shall be passed. 4. No capitation or other direct tax shall be laid, unless in proportion to the census or enumeration herein before directed to be taken.
Էջ 265 - Done in convention, by the unanimous consent of the States present, the seventeenth day of September, in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and eighty-seven, and of the independence of the United States of America the twelfth.
Էջ 222 - States shall have liberty to take fish of every kind on such part of the coast of Newfoundland, as British fishermen shall use (but not to dry or cure the same on that island), and also on the coasts, bays, and creeks of all other of His Britannic Majesty's dominions in America...
Էջ 125 - They took infinite pains to inculcate, as a fundamental principle, that in all monarchies the people must in effect, themselves, mediately or immediately, possess the power of granting their own money, or no shadow of liberty could subsist.
Էջ 261 - The congress may determine the time of choosing the electors, and the day on which they shall give their votes ; which day shall be the same throughout the United States. 5. No person except a natural born citizen, or a citizen of the United States, at the time of the adoption of this Constitution, shall be eligible to the office of president ; neither shall any person be eligible to that office who shall not have attained to the age of thirty-five years, and been fourteen years a resident within...
Էջ 275 - I behold the surest pledges, that as, on one side, no local prejudices or attachments, no separate views nor party animosities, will misdirect the comprehensive and equal eye which ought to watch over this great assemblage of communities and interests...