The American's Own Book: Containing the Declaration of Independence, with the Lives of the Signers : the Constitution of the United States : the Inaugural Addresses and First Annual Messages of All the Presidents from Washington to Pierce : the Farewell Addresses of George Washington and Andrew Jackson : with a Portrait and Life of Each President of the United States, to the Present TimeLeavitt & Allen, 1855 - 496 pages |
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... legislative bodies at places un- usual , uncomfortable , and distant from the repository of their public records , for the sole purpose of fatiguing them into compliance with his measures . He has dissolved representative houses ...
... legislative bodies at places un- usual , uncomfortable , and distant from the repository of their public records , for the sole purpose of fatiguing them into compliance with his measures . He has dissolved representative houses ...
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... legislation . For quartering large bodies of armed troops among us : For protecting them , by a mock trial , from punishment for any murders which they should commit on the inhab- itants of these states : For cutting off our trade with ...
... legislation . For quartering large bodies of armed troops among us : For protecting them , by a mock trial , from punishment for any murders which they should commit on the inhab- itants of these states : For cutting off our trade with ...
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... legislative body . About this time he was the author of several spirited essays , and plans of resistance to the ex actions of the British ministry . He suggested the first Congress at New York , which was a step to the estab- lishment ...
... legislative body . About this time he was the author of several spirited essays , and plans of resistance to the ex actions of the British ministry . He suggested the first Congress at New York , which was a step to the estab- lishment ...
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... legislative capacity , he was a determined opposer of the mercenary views of the royal Governor , John Wentworth , who , desiring to conciliate him to his interest , appointed him justice of the peace This , though a trivial distinction ...
... legislative capacity , he was a determined opposer of the mercenary views of the royal Governor , John Wentworth , who , desiring to conciliate him to his interest , appointed him justice of the peace This , though a trivial distinction ...
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... legislative career . In 1791 , Congress passed a bill imposing a duty on spirits distilled in the United States . To the southern and western part of the country , this measure proved very offensive . Mr. Clymer was placed at the head ...
... legislative career . In 1791 , Congress passed a bill imposing a duty on spirits distilled in the United States . To the southern and western part of the country , this measure proved very offensive . Mr. Clymer was placed at the head ...
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Page 168 - ... with all these blessings, what more is necessary to make us a happy and prosperous people? Still one thing more, fellowcitizens, a wise and frugal government, which shall restrain men from injuring one another, shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned.
Page 115 - ... 2. Immediately after they shall be assembled, in consequence of the first election, they shall be divided, as equally as may be, into three classes. The seats of the senators of the first class, shall be vacated at the expiration of the second year, of the second class...
Page 146 - If in the opinion of the people the distribution or modification of the constitutional powers be in any particular wrong, let it be corrected by an amendment in the way which the Constitution designates. But let there be no change by usurpation, for though this in one instance may be the instrument of good, it is the customary weapon by which free governments are destroyed.
Page 116 - 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 143 - To the efficacy and permanency of your union, a government for the whole is indispensable. — No alliances, however strict, between the parts, can be an adequate substitute ; they must inevitably experience the infractions and interruptions, which all alliances, in all times, have experienced.
Page 129 - The person having the greatest number of votes as Vice-President shall be the Vice-President, if such 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...
Page 150 - Against the insidious wiles of foreign influence (I conjure you to believe me, fellow-citizens), the jealousy of a free people ought to be constantly awake; since history and experience prove that foreign influence is one of the most baneful foes of republican government.
Page 151 - ... it is folly in one nation to look for disinterested favors from another; that it must pay with a portion of its independence for whatever it may accept under that character...
Page 145 - The alternate domination of one faction over another, sharpened by the spirit of revenge, natural to party dissension, which in different ages and countries has perpetrated the most horrid enormities, is itself a frightful despotism.
Page 145 - The disorders and miseries which result, gradually incline the minds of men to seek security and repose in the absolute power of an individual ; and, sooner or later, the chief of some prevailing faction, more able or more fortunate than his competitors, turns this disposition to the purposes of his own elevation on the ruins of public liberty.