The Story of American Democracy, Political and IndustrialAllyn and Bacon, 1922 - 791 pages |
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... party off the Board of Assistants . To prevent the minority from receiving expected reinforce- ments from England , it was then decreed that newcomers should not settle in the colony , or even tarry there more than three weeks , without ...
... party off the Board of Assistants . To prevent the minority from receiving expected reinforce- ments from England , it was then decreed that newcomers should not settle in the colony , or even tarry there more than three weeks , without ...
Page 96
... party , her husband being one ) were gone to Narragansett to seek out a new place for plantation . " This assumption of divine help in a political trick is the most unlovely sentence Winthrop ever penned . The age and religious freedom ...
... party , her husband being one ) were gone to Narragansett to seek out a new place for plantation . " This assumption of divine help in a political trick is the most unlovely sentence Winthrop ever penned . The age and religious freedom ...
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... proud title , " Mother of Presidents . ' The party epithets , Cavalier and Roundhead , should not blind us to the close likeness between the gentry elements in Massachusetts and Virginia . The Cavalier immigrants were not.
... proud title , " Mother of Presidents . ' The party epithets , Cavalier and Roundhead , should not blind us to the close likeness between the gentry elements in Massachusetts and Virginia . The Cavalier immigrants were not.
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... party tried to use them for social and political reform . " Bacon's Rebellion " became a rising against " special privilege . The fundamental cause was not discontent at the inefficiency of the government against the Indians , but ...
... party tried to use them for social and political reform . " Bacon's Rebellion " became a rising against " special privilege . The fundamental cause was not discontent at the inefficiency of the government against the Indians , but ...
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... Party that they chose , instead of Freeholders , Free men that had but lately crept out of the condition of Servants ( which were never before Eligible ) for their Burgesses . " The new Assembly is known as Bacon's Assembly , and its ...
... Party that they chose , instead of Freeholders , Free men that had but lately crept out of the condition of Servants ( which were never before Eligible ) for their Burgesses . " The new Assembly is known as Bacon's Assembly , and its ...
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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...
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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...