The Story of American Democracy, Political and IndustrialAllyn and Bacon, 1922 - 791 pages |
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... once small bands of French and Spaniards had won their way to the interior , they spread themselves out too fast - faster than their strength justified . But the rugged Appalachians , singularly impassable for such low mountains ...
... once small bands of French and Spaniards had won their way to the interior , they spread themselves out too fast - faster than their strength justified . But the rugged Appalachians , singularly impassable for such low mountains ...
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... once by his half brother , Sir Walter Raleigh , the most gallant figure of that Raleigh's attempts daring age . In 1584 Raleigh received a charter copied from Gilbert's , and in the next three years he sent three expeditions to Roanoke ...
... once by his half brother , Sir Walter Raleigh , the most gallant figure of that Raleigh's attempts daring age . In 1584 Raleigh received a charter copied from Gilbert's , and in the next three years he sent three expeditions to Roanoke ...
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... once given , it could not be withdrawn.1 Jury trial and representative government were both estab- lished upon a lasting foundation in America in 1619 , while Virginia was the only English colony . These two bulwarks Many American ...
... once given , it could not be withdrawn.1 Jury trial and representative government were both estab- lished upon a lasting foundation in America in 1619 , while Virginia was the only English colony . These two bulwarks Many American ...
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... once he had been committed to custody by royal order . An envious business associate testified that " there was not any man in the world that carried a more malitious hearte to the government of a Monarchie than Sir Edwin Sandys did ...
... once he had been committed to custody by royal order . An envious business associate testified that " there was not any man in the world that carried a more malitious hearte to the government of a Monarchie than Sir Edwin Sandys did ...
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... once in two years at least he call a Grand Assembly , and that he do not dissolve this Assembly without the consente of the major part of the House . " The failure of this attempt to restrict the new governor belongs to a later chapter ...
... once in two years at least he call a Grand Assembly , and that he do not dissolve this Assembly without the consente of the major part of the House . " The failure of this attempt to restrict the new governor belongs to a later chapter ...
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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...