The Writings of Thomas Jefferson: Autobiography, with appendix. CorrespondenceTaylor & Maury, 1853 - United States |
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... opinion , that the value of lands and houses was the best estimate of the wealth of a nation , and that it was practicable to obtain such a valuation . This is the true barometer of wealth . The one now proposed is imperfect in it- self ...
... opinion , that the value of lands and houses was the best estimate of the wealth of a nation , and that it was practicable to obtain such a valuation . This is the true barometer of wealth . The one now proposed is imperfect in it- self ...
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... opinion , the smaller colonies would lose their rights , if they were not in some instances allowed an equal vote ; and , therefore , that a dis- crimination should take place among the questions which would come before Congress . That ...
... opinion , the smaller colonies would lose their rights , if they were not in some instances allowed an equal vote ; and , therefore , that a dis- crimination should take place among the questions which would come before Congress . That ...
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... opinion of Mr. Wythe , Mr. Mason , and myself . When we proceeded to the distribution of the work , Mr. Mason excused himself , as , being no lawyer , he felt himself unqualified for the work , and he resigned soon after . Mr. Lee ...
... opinion of Mr. Wythe , Mr. Mason , and myself . When we proceeded to the distribution of the work , Mr. Mason excused himself , as , being no lawyer , he felt himself unqualified for the work , and he resigned soon after . Mr. Lee ...
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... opinion was meant to be universal . Where the preamble declares , that coercion is a departure from the plan of the ... opinions ; but the general idea of our country had not yet advanced to that point . The bill , therefore , for ...
... opinion was meant to be universal . Where the preamble declares , that coercion is a departure from the plan of the ... opinions ; but the general idea of our country had not yet advanced to that point . The bill , therefore , for ...
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... opinion was ripening , by time , by reflection , and by the example of Pennsylvania , where labor on the highways had been tried , without approbation , from 1786 to '89 , and had been followed by their Penitentiary system on the ...
... opinion was ripening , by time , by reflection , and by the example of Pennsylvania , where labor on the highways had been tried , without approbation , from 1786 to '89 , and had been followed by their Penitentiary system on the ...
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Page 21 - 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 meantime, exposed to all the dangers of invasion from without, and convulsions within.
Page 23 - CHRISTIAN king of Great Britain. 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. And that this assemblage of horrors might want no fact of distinguished...
Page 181 - Are not my days few? cease then, And let me alone, that I may take comfort a little, Before I go whence I shall not return, Even to the land of darkness and the shadow of death; A land of darkness, as darkness itself; And of the shadow of death, without any order, And where the light is as darkness.
Page 27 - All charges of war, and all other expenses that shall be incurred for the common defense or general welfare, and allowed by the United States in Congress assembled, shall be defrayed out of a common treasury...
Page 140 - Still less let it be proposed that our properties, within our own territories, shall be taxed or regulated by any power on earth, but our own. The God who gave us life, gave us liberty at the same time : the hand of force may destroy, but cannot disjoin them.
Page 20 - We hold these truths to be self evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.
Page 25 - At this very time too, they are permitting their chief magistrate to send over not only soldiers of our common blood, but Scotch and foreign mercenaries to invade and destroy us.
Page 20 - Britain is a history of [unremitting] injuries and usurpations, [among which appears no solitary fact to contradict the uniform tenor of the rest, but all have] in direct object the establishment of an absolute tyranny over these states. To prove this, let facts be submitted to a candid world [for the truth of which we pledge a faith yet unsullied by falsehood.] He has refused his assent to laws the most wholesome and necessary for the public good.
Page 25 - 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 beticeen us and the people or Parliament of Great Britain; and finally, we do assert...
Page 22 - He has [suffered] * the administration of justice [totally to cease in some of these States] 2 refusing his assent to laws for establishing judiciary powers. He has made [our] judges dependent on his will alone for the tenure of their offices, and the amount and payment of their salaries. He has erected a multitude of new offices, [by a self-assumed power\ and sent hither swarms of new officers to harass our people and eat out their substance.