 These wards, called townships in New England, are the vital principle of their governments, and have proved themselves the wisest invention ever devised by the wit of man for the perfect exercise of self-government and for its preservation.  The Old South Leaflets: Annual ser - Page 11883Full view - About this book
 | Thomas Jefferson - United States - 1829 - 550 pages
...poor rates, and administer all the matters of common interest to the whole county. These wards, called townships in New England, are the vital principle...exercise of self-government, and for its preservation. We should thus marshal our government into, 1. the general federal republic, for all concerns foreign... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson - 1829 - 1102 pages
...poor rates, and administer all the matters of common interest to the whole county. These wards, called townships in New England, are the vital principle...exercise of self-government, and for its preservation. We should thus marshal our government into, 1. the general federal republic, for all concerns foreign... | |
 | Virginia. Constitutional Convention - Constitutional conventions - 1830 - 932 pages
...poor rates, and administer all the matters of common interest to the whole county. These wards, called townships in New England, are the vital principle...exercise of self-government, and for its preservation. We should thus marshal our Government into, first, the general Federal Republic, for all concerns foreign... | |
 | United States - 1912 - 484 pages
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 | John Howard Hinton - United States - 1850 - 1008 pages
...Jefferson says, — " The townships of New England are the vital principles of their governments, and hare proved themselves the wisest invention ever devised...of self-government, and for its preservation."— Correspondence, vol. iv. p. 297. citizens, or against citizens of other states, or aliens. In these... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson - United States - 1854 - 676 pages
...administer all the matters of common interest to the whole country. These wards, called townships iu New England, are the vital principle of their governments,...exercise of self-government, and for its preservation. We should thus marshal our government into, 1, the general federal republic, for all concerns foreign... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson - United States - 1854 - 678 pages
...rates, and administer all the matters of common interest to the whole country. These wards, called townships in New England, are the vital principle of their governments, and liave proved themselves the wisest invention ever devised by the wit of man for the perfect exercise... | |
 | Henry Stephens Randall - Presidents - 1858 - 758 pages
...poor rates, and administer all the matters of common interest to the whole county. These wards, called townships in New England, are the vital principle...the perfect exercise of self-government, and for its preservation.1 We should thus marshal our Government into, 1. The general Federal republic, for all... | |
 | Henry Stephens Randall - 1858 - 764 pages
...administer all tho matters of common interest to the whole county. These wards, called townships in Xew England, are the vital principle of their governments,...the perfect exercise of self-government, and for its preservation.1 We should thus marshal our Government into, 1. The general Federal republic, for all... | |
 | Henry Stephens Randall - United States - 1858 - 766 pages
...the matters of common interest to the whole county. These wards, called townships in New England, arc the vital principle of their governments, and have...the perfect exercise of self-government, and for its preservation.1 We should thus marshal our Government into, 1. The general Federal republic, for all... | |
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