 | Electronic journals - 1899 - 818 pages
...lead by respectively offering and seconding a resolution " That these United Colonies are and of right ought to be free and independent states ; and that all political connection between them and the State of Great Britain is, and ought to be, totally suppressed." After three days debate... | |
 | Electronic journals - 1899 - 820 pages
...lead by respectively offering and seconding a resolution " That these United Colonies are and of right ought to be free and independent states ; and that all political connection between them and the State of Great Britain is, and ought to be, totally suppressed." After three days debate... | |
 | Amy Ella Blanchard - United States - 1900 - 340 pages
...the same year, Richard Henry Lee of Virginia moved in Congress " that these United Colonies are and ought to be free and independent states, and that all political connection between them and the State of Great Britain is, and ought to be, totally dissolved." The debate upon this motion... | |
 | Everett Titsworth Tomlinson - United States - 1901 - 540 pages
...orator — had fearlessly read aloud the resolution, "That these united colonies are, and of right ought to be, free and independent states ; and that...connection between us and the State of Great Britain is, and ought to be, totally dissolved." John Adams quickly seconded the resolution, though for the sake... | |
 | John Fiske - Political Science - 1901 - 400 pages
...Virginia, and seconded by John Adams, of Massachusetts, " That these United Colonies are, and of right ought to be, free and independent States ; and that all political connection between them and the State of Great Britain is, and ought to be, totally suppressed." This resolution was referred... | |
 | Edward Schwinn, William Wesley Stevenson - United States - 1901 - 412 pages
...Continental Congresses, in the latter of which he moved " that these United Colonies are, and of right ought to be, Free and Independent States, and that all political connection between them and the State of Great Britain is, and ought to be, totally dissolved." This was added to the... | |
 | Joseph Mortimer Levering - Bethlehem (Pa.) - 1903 - 1030 pages
...Delaware and four of Pennsylvania's seven delegates — that the "United Colonies are and of right ought to be free and independent States ; and that all political connection between them and the State of Great Britain is and ought to be totally dissolved." Then again, on the 8th of... | |
 | Francis Bail Pearson - Ohio - 1903 - 372 pages
...Colonies, on July 2, 1776, passed a resolution declaring "That these United Colonies are, and of right ought to be, free and independent states, and that all political connection between them and the state of Great Britain is, and ought to be, totally dissolved,'' the first important step... | |
 | American Political Science Association. Meeting - Electronic journals - 1907 - 272 pages
...the Declaration reads : " We, therefore, .... declare that these United Colonies are, and of right ought to be, free and independent states, .... and that all 'political connection between them and the State of Great Britain is, and ought to be, totally dissolved." In this it was necessarily... | |
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That these united colonies are, and of right ought to be, free and independent states ; and that all political connection between us and the State of Great Britain is, and ought to be, totally dissolved. 
