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... course party politics will be avoided ; ing the public , and so increase our patronage ; with yet , by the insertion of original and selected essays , which we will try to keep pace . on both sides of great national questions , we shall ...
... course party politics will be avoided ; ing the public , and so increase our patronage ; with yet , by the insertion of original and selected essays , which we will try to keep pace . on both sides of great national questions , we shall ...
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... course with Great Britain , mutually affectionate and commons s milar to those adopted by it . and advantageous . Declaration of the rights of the colonists of America , as agreed to by the first American congress at New - in York ...
... course with Great Britain , mutually affectionate and commons s milar to those adopted by it . and advantageous . Declaration of the rights of the colonists of America , as agreed to by the first American congress at New - in York ...
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... course of that law . being represented except Georgia , then willing but too weak to take part in the events of the times . The first act of this congress was to ap probate the opposition made by the people of Alassachusetts to the ...
... course of that law . being represented except Georgia , then willing but too weak to take part in the events of the times . The first act of this congress was to ap probate the opposition made by the people of Alassachusetts to the ...
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... course with our brethren ; and adding contempt to ses for which alone all governments are instituted , calumny , they undertook to appoint delegates for we are convinced that we cannot and ought not any us , and without our consent ...
... course with our brethren ; and adding contempt to ses for which alone all governments are instituted , calumny , they undertook to appoint delegates for we are convinced that we cannot and ought not any us , and without our consent ...
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... course of all the people of the capital and its vicinity , ejoicing in his presence , and testifying , by their acclamations , that they expected from him the re generation of the country . A proclamation of the following day informed ...
... course of all the people of the capital and its vicinity , ejoicing in his presence , and testifying , by their acclamations , that they expected from him the re generation of the country . A proclamation of the following day informed ...
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Page 13 - An Act for granting and applying certain Stamp Duties, and other Duties, in the British Colonies and Plantations in America, &c. by imposing Taxes on the Inhabitants of these Colonies, and the said Act, and several other Acts, by extending the Jurisdiction of the Courts of Admiralty beyond its ancient Limits, have a manifest Tendency to subvert the Rights and Liberties of the Colonists.
Page 161 - An act to interdict the commercial intercourse between the United States and Great Britain and France and their dependencies, and for other purposes...
Page 93 - ... of success in any mode of contest where regard should be had to truth, law, or right, have at length, deserting those, attempted to effect their cruel and impolitic purpose of enslaving these colonies by violence, and have thereby rendered it necessary for us to close with their last appeal from reason to arms. Yet, however blinded that assembly may be, by their intemperate rage for unlimited domination, so to slight justice and the opinion of mankind, we esteem ourselves bound by obligations...
Page 9 - Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the government of himself. Can he then be trusted with the government of others? Or have we found angels, in the form of kings, to govern him? Let history answer this question.
Page 93 - ... however severe and oppressive, the inhabitants of these colonies might at least require from the Parliament of Great Britain some evidence that this dreadful authority over them has been granted to that body.
Page 14 - That the foundation of English Liberty, and of all free Government, is a right in the people to participate in their Legislative Council...
Page 14 - That the inhabitants of the English colonies in North America, by the immutable laws of nature, the principles of the English constitution, and the several charters or compacts, have the following RIGHTS.
Page 105 - ... after which the number and proportion of representatives shall be regulated by the legislature ; provided that no person be eligible or qualified to act as a representative unless he shall have been a citizen of one of the United States three years and be a resident in the district, or unless he shall have resided in the district three years, and in either case shall likewise hold in his own right, in fee simple, two hundred acres of land within the same.
Page 316 - Like a vast estate, heaped up by the labor and industry of one man, which seldom survives the third generation, power, gained by patient assiduity, by a faithful and regular discharge of its attendant duties, soon gets above its own origin. Intoxicated with their own greatness, the Federal party fell. Will not the same causes produce the same effects now, as then? Sir, you may raise this army, you may build up this vast structure of patronage, this mighty apparatus of favoritism; but "lay not the...
Page 193 - And whereas the Senate of the United States have approved of the said arrangement and recommended that it should be carried into effect, the same having also received the sanction of His Royal Highness the Prince Regent, acting in the name and on the behalf of His...