Advanced American HistoryCentury Company, 1924 - 609 pages |
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... Confederation The Evil Days of the Confederation 9999 164 166 169 XVII THE WORK OF THE FATHERS Conflicting Forces 174 The Movement for a Constitutional Convention The Work of the Convention 176 177 182 The Ratification of the ...
... Confederation The Evil Days of the Confederation 9999 164 166 169 XVII THE WORK OF THE FATHERS Conflicting Forces 174 The Movement for a Constitutional Convention The Work of the Convention 176 177 182 The Ratification of the ...
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... Confederation . The The members of this union were Plymouth , Massachusetts , England Connecticut , and New Haven . Its avowed purpose was to de- fend the colonies against the French , the Dutch , and the In- New Confeder- ation Sir ...
... Confederation . The The members of this union were Plymouth , Massachusetts , England Connecticut , and New Haven . Its avowed purpose was to de- fend the colonies against the French , the Dutch , and the In- New Confeder- ation Sir ...
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... confederation would help the colonies in the defense of their liberties . This confederation , although it accomplished nothing very remarkable , taught the colonies how to combine , and it may therefore be regarded as the first step in ...
... confederation would help the colonies in the defense of their liberties . This confederation , although it accomplished nothing very remarkable , taught the colonies how to combine , and it may therefore be regarded as the first step in ...
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... CONFEDERATION But the new State was not supreme in everything ; it did not possess all the attributes and powers of ... Confederation , which provided for a new political union that was to be known as the " United in the west States of ...
... CONFEDERATION But the new State was not supreme in everything ; it did not possess all the attributes and powers of ... Confederation , which provided for a new political union that was to be known as the " United in the west States of ...
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... Confederation unless satisfactory arrangements could be made in regard to the western lands . By May , 1779 , however , all the States had agreed to the Articles excepting Maryland . This State withheld ratification until the States ...
... Confederation unless satisfactory arrangements could be made in regard to the western lands . By May , 1779 , however , all the States had agreed to the Articles excepting Maryland . This State withheld ratification until the States ...
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Page 396 - My paramount object in this struggle is to save the Union, and is not either to save or to destroy slavery. If I could save the Union without freeing any slave, I would do it; and if I could save it by freeing all the slaves, I would do it; and if I could do it by freeing some and leaving others alone, I would also do that.
Page 610 - State having jurisdiction of the crime. 3 No person held to service or labor in one State, under the laws thereof, escaping into another, shall, in consequence of any law or regulation therein, be discharged from such service or labor, but shall be delivered up on claim of the party to whom such service or labor may be due.1 SECTION 3.
Page 426 - That all persons born in the United States and not subject to any foreign power, excluding Indians not taxed, are hereby declared to be citizens of the United States...
Page 296 - I am in earnest. I will not equivocate — I will not excuse — I will not retreat a single inch. AND I WILL BE HEARD.
Page 543 - Chronic wrongdoing, or an impotence which results in a general loosening of the ties of civilized society, may in America, as elsewhere, ultimately require intervention by some civilized nation, and in the Western Hemisphere the adherence of the United States to the Monroe Doctrine may force the United States, however reluctantly, in flagrant cases of such wrongdoing or impotence, to the exercise of an international police power.
Page 375 - In your hands, my dissatisfied fellow-countrymen, and not in mine, is the momentous issue of civil war. The government will not assail you. You can have no conflict without being yourselves the aggressors. You have no oath registered in heaven to destroy the government, while I shall have the most solemn one to "preserve, protect, and defend it.
Page 396 - ... that on the first day of january in the year of our lord one thousand eight hundred and sixtythree all persons held as slaves within any state or designated part of a state the people whereof shall then be in rebellion against the united states shall be then thenceforward and forever free...
Page 134 - MARYLAND Samuel Chase Wm. Paca Thos. Stone Charles Carroll of Carrollton VIRGINIA George Wythe Richard Henry Lee Th. Jefferson Benja. Harrison Ths.
Page 410 - TAXES upon every article which enters into the mouth, or covers the back, or is placed under the foot — taxes upon everything which it is pleasant to see, hear, feel, smell, or taste — taxes upon warmth, light, and locomotion — taxes on everything on earth, and the waters under the earth...
Page 276 - The Congress, the Executive, and the Court must each for itself be guided by its own opinion of the Constitution. Each public officer who takes an oath to support the Constitution swears that he will support it as he understands it, and not as it is understood by others.