History of the United States of North AmericaC. Tilt, 1838 - 375 pages |
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... increased the numbers of the colony to seven hundred , de- tachments were again sent up the James river , and several settlements made . A more important change took place in the new arrange- ments with respect to property . Hitherto ...
... increased the numbers of the colony to seven hundred , de- tachments were again sent up the James river , and several settlements made . A more important change took place in the new arrange- ments with respect to property . Hitherto ...
Page 37
... increasing this their superstition concerning him ; affecting everything that was odd and prodigious to work upon their admiration ; for which purpose he would often dress himself up with feathers , after a fantastic manner , and , by ...
... increasing this their superstition concerning him ; affecting everything that was odd and prodigious to work upon their admiration ; for which purpose he would often dress himself up with feathers , after a fantastic manner , and , by ...
Page 38
... increasing faintness suffici- ently convinced him of the falsity of both . He imagined that being buried among the English , perhaps , might conceal his death from his own nation , who might think him trans- lated to some happier ...
... increasing faintness suffici- ently convinced him of the falsity of both . He imagined that being buried among the English , perhaps , might conceal his death from his own nation , who might think him trans- lated to some happier ...
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... increased , so that upwards of thirty ships were engaged in the traffic with different ports in New England and Europe . The inhabitants , in 1648 , had increased to twenty thousand . In the dispute between Charles I. and the parliament ...
... increased , so that upwards of thirty ships were engaged in the traffic with different ports in New England and Europe . The inhabitants , in 1648 , had increased to twenty thousand . In the dispute between Charles I. and the parliament ...
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... increased by the expressions of esteem and gratitude , which Charles found no difficulty in addressing to the colonists . These hopes they were , for a short time , permitted to indulge . The assembly introduced many impor- tant changes ...
... increased by the expressions of esteem and gratitude , which Charles found no difficulty in addressing to the colonists . These hopes they were , for a short time , permitted to indulge . The assembly introduced many impor- tant changes ...
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Page 366 - New States may be admitted by the Congress into this Union ; but no new State shall be formed or erected within the jurisdiction of any other State ; nor any State be formed by the junction of two or more States, or parts of States, without the consent of the legislatures of the States concerned as well as of the Congress.
Page 366 - ... 2. A person charged in any state with treason, felony, or other crime, who shall flee from justice, and be found in another state, shall, on demand of the executive authority of the state from which he fled, be delivered up, to be removed to the state having jurisdiction of the crime.
Page 54 - Name of the Council Established at Plymouth in the County of Devon, for the Planting, Ruling, Ordering and Governing of New England in America...
Page 360 - States; 3. To regulate commerce with foreign nations and among the several states, and with the Indian tribes; 4. To establish an uniform rule of naturalization, and uniform laws on the subject of bankruptcies throughout the United States; 5. To coin money, regulate the value thereof, and of foreign coin, and fix the standard of weights and measures; 6. To provide for the punishment of counterfeiting the securities and current coin of the United States; 7.
Page 359 - ... 2. Each house may determine the rules of its proceedings, punish its members for disorderly behavior, and with the concurrence of two thirds, expel a member.
Page 359 - Each house shall keep a journal of its proceedings, and from time to time publish the same, excepting such parts as may in their judgment require secrecy; and the yeas and nays of the members of either house on any question shall, at the desire of one fifth of those present, be entered on the journal.
Page 59 - Covenant and combine ourselves together into a Civil body politic, for our better ordering and preservation, and furtherance of the ends aforesaid ; and by virtue hereof, to enact, constitute, and frame such just and equal laws, ordinances, acts, constitutions, and offices, from time to time, as shall be thought most meet and convenient for the general good of the colony, unto which we promise all due submission and obedience.
Page 362 - No title of nobility shall be granted by the United States; and no person holding any office of profit or trust under them, shall, without the consent of Congress, accept of any present, emolument, office, or title, of any kind whatever, from any king, prince, or foreign state.
Page 365 - States shall consist only in levying war against them, or in adhering to their enemies, giving them aid and comfort. No person shall be convicted of treason unless on the testimony of two witnesses to the same overt act, or on confession in open court.
Page 370 - ... number be a majority of the whole number of electors appointed; and if no person have a majority, then from the two highest numbers on the list the Senate shall choose the Vice-President; a quorum for the purpose shall consist of two-thirds of the whole number of Senators, and a majority of the whole number shall be necessary to a choice. 3. But no person constitutionally ineligible to the office of President shall be eligible to that of Vice-President of the United States.