Memoirs, Correspondence, and Private Papers of Thomas Jefferson: Late President of the United States, Volume 1 |
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... possible we should ever renew our connection ; that they had only opposed its being now declared : That the question was not whether , by a Declaration of In- dependence , we should make ourselves what we are not ; but whether we should ...
... possible we should ever renew our connection ; that they had only opposed its being now declared : That the question was not whether , by a Declaration of In- dependence , we should make ourselves what we are not ; but whether we should ...
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... possible , a committee was ap- pointed to prepare a Declaration of Independence . The committee were John Adams , Dr. Franklin , Roger Sherman , Robert R. Livingston , and myself . Committees were also appointed at the same time , to ...
... possible , a committee was ap- pointed to prepare a Declaration of Independence . The committee were John Adams , Dr. Franklin , Roger Sherman , Robert R. Livingston , and myself . Committees were also appointed at the same time , to ...
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... possible to collect the whole body of the people together , they would determine the questions submitted to them by their majority . Why should not the same majority decide when voting here , by their representatives ? The larger ...
... possible to collect the whole body of the people together , they would determine the questions submitted to them by their majority . Why should not the same majority decide when voting here , by their representatives ? The larger ...
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... possible case , or to suggest any one thing on earth , which shall be for the interests of Virginia , Pennsylvania , and Massachusetts , and which will not also be for the interest of the other states . * [ Here terminate the author's ...
... possible case , or to suggest any one thing on earth , which shall be for the interests of Virginia , Pennsylvania , and Massachusetts , and which will not also be for the interest of the other states . * [ Here terminate the author's ...
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... possible occasion , confident in her protection , and in that of the King of Prussia , brother to his princess . The States Ge- neral , indignant at this patricidal conduct , applied to France for aid , according to the stipulations of ...
... possible occasion , confident in her protection , and in that of the King of Prussia , brother to his princess . The States Ge- neral , indignant at this patricidal conduct , applied to France for aid , according to the stipulations of ...
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Page 23 - 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 20 - He has waged cruel war against human nature itself, violating its most sacred rights of life and liberty in the persons of a distant people who never offended him, captivating and carrying them into slavery in another hemisphere, or to incur miserable death in their transportation thither.
Page 21 - 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 17 - ... that mankind are more disposed to suffer while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, begun at a distinguished period and pursuing invariably the same object, evinces a design to reduce them under absolute despotism, it is their right, it is their duty to throw off such government, and to provide new guards for their future security. Such has been the patient sufferance of these colonies...
Page 429 - 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.
Page 22 - Britain; and finally we do assert and declare these colonies to be free and independent states,] and that as free and independent states, they have full power to levy war, conclude peace, contract alliances, establish commerce, and to do all other acts and things which independent states may of right do. And for the support of this declaration, we mutually pledge to each other our lives, our fortunes, and our sacred honor.
Page 22 - 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...
Page 20 - 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 18 - 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 19 - 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.