History of the Origin, Formation, and Adoption of the Constitution of the United States, with Notices of Its Principal Framers, Volume 2Harper, 1863 |
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... already been described as a league , or federal alliance between independent and sovereign States , for certain purposes of mutual aid . So far as it could properly be called a government , it was a government for the States in their ...
... already been described as a league , or federal alliance between independent and sovereign States , for certain purposes of mutual aid . So far as it could properly be called a government , it was a government for the States in their ...
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... already been obliged to regard them , in considering a rule by which the States should contribute to the national expenses . They had found it to be just , that a State should be required to include its slaves among its population , in ...
... already been obliged to regard them , in considering a rule by which the States should contribute to the national expenses . They had found it to be just , that a State should be required to include its slaves among its population , in ...
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... already found it to be necessary to consider the slaves . In framing the new Union , it was equally necessary , as soon as the equality of representation by States should give place to a proportional and unequal representation , to ...
... already found it to be necessary to consider the slaves . In framing the new Union , it was equally necessary , as soon as the equality of representation by States should give place to a proportional and unequal representation , to ...
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... already entertained of forming a government that should have a vigorous authority derived directly from the people of the States , one that should possess both the force and the sense of the people at large . For the formation of such a ...
... already entertained of forming a government that should have a vigorous authority derived directly from the people of the States , one that should possess both the force and the sense of the people at large . For the formation of such a ...
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... already , or was ultimately to become , extinct , and Maryland , North Carolina , and Virginia , where slavery was likely to remain had large numbers of free blacks . These inhabitants , who were regarded as citizens in some of the ...
... already , or was ultimately to become , extinct , and Maryland , North Carolina , and Virginia , where slavery was likely to remain had large numbers of free blacks . These inhabitants , who were regarded as citizens in some of the ...
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