A Short History of the United States, 1492-1938Macmillan, 1939 - 1039 pages |
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Page 176
... authority respected , and though Chatham in one house and Burke in the other pleaded for a restoration of the laws ... authority of parliament to annul or amend a colonial charter ; but so good an authority as Chief Justice Mansfield ...
... authority respected , and though Chatham in one house and Burke in the other pleaded for a restoration of the laws ... authority of parliament to annul or amend a colonial charter ; but so good an authority as Chief Justice Mansfield ...
Page 285
... authority of the states , to which the republicans looked as the guarantee of the rights of the individual . The federalists , as in 1787 , replied that the rights of the individual would be as safe at the hands of the general govern ...
... authority of the states , to which the republicans looked as the guarantee of the rights of the individual . The federalists , as in 1787 , replied that the rights of the individual would be as safe at the hands of the general govern ...
Page 286
... authority to themselves which they did not grant to the union ; an exercise of ungranted power was illegal ; the union was not a judge of its own powers ; and each party to the compact of the union is a judge of the terms of union , as ...
... authority to themselves which they did not grant to the union ; an exercise of ungranted power was illegal ; the union was not a judge of its own powers ; and each party to the compact of the union is a judge of the terms of union , as ...
Contents
Better Times in the Colony | 50 |
The Plymouth Colony | 59 |
The Colonies under the Later Stuarts 16601689 | 92 |
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