Essentials in American History (from the Discovery to the Present Day)American Book Company, 1905 - 583 pages |
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... Confederation ( 1781-1789 ) 189 ( 1787–1789 ) . 206 XIII . Making the Federal Constitution ( 1787-1789 ) ORGANIZATION AND EXPANSION XIV . The American People from 1780 to 1800 . XV . Organizing the Government ( 1789-1793 ) . XVI ...
... Confederation ( 1781-1789 ) 189 ( 1787–1789 ) . 206 XIII . Making the Federal Constitution ( 1787-1789 ) ORGANIZATION AND EXPANSION XIV . The American People from 1780 to 1800 . XV . Organizing the Government ( 1789-1793 ) . XVI ...
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... confederation , not unlike the governments of Rhode Island and New Haven . Massachusetts claimed the territory ; and within five years the people accepted her jurisdiction , and remained a part of that colony most of the time to 1691 ...
... confederation , not unlike the governments of Rhode Island and New Haven . Massachusetts claimed the territory ; and within five years the people accepted her jurisdiction , and remained a part of that colony most of the time to 1691 ...
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... Confederation , " under which the union . was formed , was a little constitution , creating a govern- tion ( 1643- ment of two commissioners from each colony , " being all 1655 ) in Church fellowship with us , " and any six of the eight ...
... Confederation , " under which the union . was formed , was a little constitution , creating a govern- tion ( 1643- ment of two commissioners from each colony , " being all 1655 ) in Church fellowship with us , " and any six of the eight ...
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... Confederation in education . ( 23 ) Was Claybourne entitled to Kent Island ? ( 24 ) Cromwell's interest in the American colonies . ( 25 ) Precise date of the landing of the Pilgrims . REFERENCES See maps , pp . 45 , 52 , 56 ; Semple ...
... Confederation in education . ( 23 ) Was Claybourne entitled to Kent Island ? ( 24 ) Cromwell's interest in the American colonies . ( 25 ) Precise date of the landing of the Pilgrims . REFERENCES See maps , pp . 45 , 52 , 56 ; Semple ...
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... confederacy of the Five Nations of Iroquois the Mohawks , Onondagas , Cayugas , Oneidas , and Senecas . Their ... confederation between the tribes ; if the young men wanted to go to war , they made up a party , including members of one ...
... confederacy of the Five Nations of Iroquois the Mohawks , Onondagas , Cayugas , Oneidas , and Senecas . Their ... confederation between the tribes ; if the young men wanted to go to war , they made up a party , including members of one ...
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Page 568 - No Senator or Representative shall, during the Time for which he was elected, be appointed to any civil Office under the Authority of the United States, which shall have been created, or the Emoluments whereof shall have been encreased during such time ; and no Person holding any Office under the United States, shall be a Member of either House during his Continuance in Office.
Page 573 - ... 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 574 - The Congress shall have Power to dispose of and make all needful Rules and Regulations respecting the Territory or other Property belonging to the United States ; and nothing in this Constitution shall be so construed as to Prejudice any Claims of the United States, or of any particular State. SECTION 4. The United States shall guarantee to every State in this Union a Republican Form of Government, and shall protect each of them against Invasion, and on Application of the Legislature, or of the Executive...
Page 579 - ... respectively, shall then be in rebellion against the United States; and the fact that any State, or the people thereof, shall on that day be in good faith represented in the Congress of the United States, by members chosen thereto at elections wherein a majority of the qualified voters of such...
Page 570 - ... §7. No money shall be drawn from the Treasury, but in consequence of appropriations made by law, and a regular statement and account of the receipts and expenditures of all public money shall be published from time to time. §8. 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 the Congress, accept of any present, emolument, office, or title of any kind whatever from any king, prince or foreign...
Page 564 - 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 568 - 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 224 - And can the liberties of a nation be thought secure when we have removed their only firm basis, a conviction in the minds of the people that these liberties are of the gift of God ? That they are not to be violated but with his wrath ? Indeed I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just ; that his justice cannot sleep forever...
Page 571 - Term, be elected as follows: 2. Each State shall appoint, in such Manner as the Legislature thereof may direct, a Number of Electors, equal to the whole Number of Senators and Representatives to which the State may be entitled in the Congress...
Page 407 - Our new government is founded upon exactly the opposite ideas ; its foundations are laid, its corner-stone rests upon the great truth that the negro is not equal to the white man; that slavery, subordination to the superior race, is his natural and normal condition.