Essentials in American History (from the Discovery to the Present Day)American Book Company, 1905 - 583 pages |
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... vote and to hold office , and that the services of the Church of England be allowed . The colony also had to repeal its anti - Quaker laws , and the public insanity on that subject gradually came to an end . - The king smiled upon ...
... vote and to hold office , and that the services of the Church of England be allowed . The colony also had to repeal its anti - Quaker laws , and the public insanity on that subject gradually came to an end . - The king smiled upon ...
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... vote by ballot . A city government was set up for Phila- delphia in 1691 with mayor and aldermen . Yet even in this elysium the settlers were discontented ; they felt that the proprietor kept too much for himself , and- began to quarrel ...
... vote by ballot . A city government was set up for Phila- delphia in 1691 with mayor and aldermen . Yet even in this elysium the settlers were discontented ; they felt that the proprietor kept too much for himself , and- began to quarrel ...
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... Voting was in every colony restricted to owners of real estate , or payers of considerable personal taxes - that is ... votes ; and the public honors fell to a small number of families of social distinction . - The colonial democracies ...
... Voting was in every colony restricted to owners of real estate , or payers of considerable personal taxes - that is ... votes ; and the public honors fell to a small number of families of social distinction . - The colonial democracies ...
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... vote may be recorded in the Town Book , that the children yet unborn may see the desires that their ancestors had for their freedom and happiness . " of colonial union Though officially quite distinct from one another , and con- nected ...
... vote may be recorded in the Town Book , that the children yet unborn may see the desires that their ancestors had for their freedom and happiness . " of colonial union Though officially quite distinct from one another , and con- nected ...
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... vote such paper issues was so easy that they ran up in amount and ran down in purchasing power . There came a time when a Rhode Island ten - pound note would not pass for more than eight shillings , or one twenty - fifth of its face ...
... vote such paper issues was so easy that they ran up in amount and ran down in purchasing power . There came a time when a Rhode Island ten - pound note would not pass for more than eight shillings , or one twenty - fifth of its face ...
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Page xxi - ... 3. The trial of all crimes, except in cases of impeachment, shall be by jury; and such trial shall be held in the state where the said crimes shall have been committed; but when not committed within any state, the trial shall be at such place or places as the congress may by law have directed.
Page 436 - Congress, banishing all feelings of mere passion or resentment, will recollect only its duty to the whole country; that this war is not waged upon our part in any spirit of oppression, nor for any purpose of conquest or subjugation, nor purpose of overthrowing or interfering with the rights or established institutions of those States, but to defend and maintain the supremacy of the Constitution and to preserve the Union, with all the dignity, equality, and rights of the several States unimpaired;...
Page xxviii - And by virtue of the power and for the purpose aforesaid, I do order and declare that all persons held as slaves within said designated States and parts of States are and henceforward shall be free; and that the Executive government of the United States, including the military and naval authorities thereof, will recognize and maintain the freedom of said persons.
Page 226 - Indeed I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just ; that his justice cannot sleep forever...
Page xxviii - And upon this act, sincerely believed to be an act of justice, warranted by the Constitution upon* military necessity, I invoke the considerate judgment of mankind and the gracious favor of Almighty God.
Page xvi - 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 206 - Philadelphia for the sole and express purpose of revising the articles of Confederation and reporting to Congress and the several legislatures such alterations and provisions therein as shall, when agreed to in Congress and confirmed by the States, render the federal Constitution adequate to the exigencies of government and the preservation of the Union.
Page 182 - September last, shall be disposed of for the common benefit of the United States, and be settled and formed into distinct republican States, which shall become members of the Federal Union, and have the same rights of sovereignty, freedom, and independence, as the other States...
Page xviii - ... §7. No money shall be drawn from the Treasury, but in consequence of appropriations made by law, and a regular statement and account of the receipts and expenditures of all public money shall be published from time to time. §8. No title of nobility shall be granted by the United States; and no person holding any office of profit or trust under them shall, without the consent of the Congress, accept of any present, emolument, office, or title of any kind whatever from any king, prince or foreign...
Page 212 - often and often in the course of the session, and the vicissitudes of my hopes and fears as to its issue, looked at that behind the president without being able to tell whether it was rising or setting. But now at length I have the happiness to know that it is a rising and not a setting sun.