Memoirs, Correspondence, and Private Papers of Thomas Jefferson: Late President of the United States, Volume 1H. Colburn and R. Bentley, 1829 - United States |
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... colonies , to consider the British claims as a common cause to all , and to produce a unity of action and for this ... colonies , inclosing to each a copy of the resolutions , and left it in charge with their chairman to forward them by ...
... colonies , to consider the British claims as a common cause to all , and to produce a unity of action and for this ... colonies , inclosing to each a copy of the resolutions , and left it in charge with their chairman to forward them by ...
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... colonies , to appoint deputies to meet in Congress at such place , annually , as should be convenient , to direct , from time to time , the measures required by the general interest and we declared that an attack on any one colony ...
... colonies , to appoint deputies to meet in Congress at such place , annually , as should be convenient , to direct , from time to time , the measures required by the general interest and we declared that an attack on any one colony ...
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... colonies was exactly the same as that of England and Scotland , after the accession of James and until the union , and the same as her present relations with Hanover , having the same executive chief , but no other necessary political ...
... colonies was exactly the same as that of England and Scotland , after the accession of James and until the union , and the same as her present relations with Hanover , having the same executive chief , but no other necessary political ...
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... colonies independent of Great Britain , and appointed a committee to prepare a declaration of rights and plan of government . * In Congress , Friday , June 7 , 1776. The delegates from Here , in the original manuscript , commence the ...
... colonies independent of Great Britain , and appointed a committee to prepare a declaration of rights and plan of government . * In Congress , Friday , June 7 , 1776. The delegates from Here , in the original manuscript , commence the ...
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... Colonies are , and of right ought to be , free and independent states ; that they are absolved from all allegiance to the British crown ; and that all political connection between them and the state of Great Britain is , and ought to be ...
... Colonies are , and of right ought to be , free and independent states ; that they are absolved from all allegiance to the British crown ; and that all political connection between them and the state of Great Britain is , and ought to be ...
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Page 6 - Determined to keep open a market where men should be bought and sold, he has prostituted his negative for suppressing every legislative attempt to prohibit or to restrain this execrable commerce.
Page 4 - 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.
Page 105 - The God who gave us life, gave us liberty at the same time : the hand of force may destroy, but cannot disjoin them.
Page 9 - All charges of war and all other expenses that shall be incurred for the common defence or general welfare, and allowed by the United States in congress assembled, shall be defrayed out of a common treasury...
Page 7 - We might have been a. free and a great people together; but a communication of grandeur and of freedom, it seems, is below their dignity. Be it so, since they will have it. The road to happiness and to glory is open to us too. We will tread it apart from them, and acquiesce in the necessity which denounces our eternal separation.
Page 3 - Prudence indeed will dictate that governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes ; and accordingly all experience hath shewn that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed.
Page 8 - We, therefore, the representatives of the United States of America, in General Congress assembled, do in the name, and by the authority of the good people of these States, reject and renounce all allegiance and subjection to the Kings of Great Britain and all others who may hereafter claim by, through, or under them; we utterly dissolve all political connection which may heretofore have subsisted between us and the people or Parliament of Great Britain; and, finally, we do assert and declare these...
Page 24 - Almighty God hath created the mind free; that all attempts to influence it by temporal punishments or burthens, or by civil incapacitations, tend only to beget habits of hypocrisy and meanness, and are a departure from the plan of the Holy author of our religion...
Page 7 - They too have been deaf to the voice of justice and of consanguinity, [and when occasions have been given them, by the regular course of their laws, of removing from their councils the disturbers of our harmony, they have, by their free election, reestablished them in power. At this very time, too, they...
Page 7 - Nor have we been wanting in attentions to our British Brethren We have warned them from Time to Time of attempts by their Legislature to extend an unwarrantable Jurisdiction over us...