The Story of American Democracy, Political and IndustrialAllyn and Bacon, 1922 - 791 pages |
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... Congress ( as public feeling mounted under the stimulus of the Virginia resolutions ) , colony after colony named dele- gates , and the Stamp Act Congress duly assembled . Fer- vently protesting loyalty to the crown , that meeting drew ...
... Congress ( as public feeling mounted under the stimulus of the Virginia resolutions ) , colony after colony named dele- gates , and the Stamp Act Congress duly assembled . Fer- vently protesting loyalty to the crown , that meeting drew ...
Page 202
... congress " as a Day of Fasting , Humiliation , and Prayer , devoutly to implore the divine interposition for averting the heavy Calamity which threatens Destruction to our Civil Rights , and the Evils of civil War , and to give us one ...
... congress " as a Day of Fasting , Humiliation , and Prayer , devoutly to implore the divine interposition for averting the heavy Calamity which threatens Destruction to our Civil Rights , and the Evils of civil War , and to give us one ...
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... congress , to meet September 1 at Philadelphia . We know this " First Conti- nental Congress " of 1774 only from letters and Congress , later recollections of some of its members and September , from imperfect notes taken at the time by ...
... congress , to meet September 1 at Philadelphia . We know this " First Conti- nental Congress " of 1774 only from letters and Congress , later recollections of some of its members and September , from imperfect notes taken at the time by ...
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... Congress " was not a legislature or a government . The name congress " was used to indicate its informal character . No governing body had Not a " gov- ever held that name . It was a meeting for con- ernment ' sultation . It claimed no ...
... Congress " was not a legislature or a government . The name congress " was used to indicate its informal character . No governing body had Not a " gov- ever held that name . It was a meeting for con- ernment ' sultation . It claimed no ...
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... Congress . But within six months all other colonies had adopted the Association either by their regular Assemblies or by " conventions " ; and everywhere " committees of public safety " and mobs were terrorizing reluctant individuals ...
... Congress . But within six months all other colonies had adopted the Association either by their regular Assemblies or by " conventions " ; and everywhere " committees of public safety " and mobs were terrorizing reluctant individuals ...
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Page 268 - Every state shall abide by the determinations of the United States in congress assembled, on all questions which, by this confederation, are submitted to them. And the articles of this confederation shall be inviolably observed by every state ; and the Union shall be perpetual.
Page 716 - But the right is more precious than peace, and we shall fight for the things which we have always carried nearest our hearts — for democracy, for the right of those who submit to authority to have a voice in their own governments...
Page 355 - HERE WAS BURIED THOMAS JEFFERSON AUTHOR OF THE DECLARATION OF AMERICAN INDEPENDENCE, OF THE STATUTE OF VIRGINIA FOR RELIGIOUS FREEDOM, AND FATHER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA: because by these, as testimonials that I have lived, I wish most to be remembered.
Page 273 - States, to devise such further provisions as shall appear to them necessary to render the constitution of the federal government adequate to the exigencies of the union...