The life of Thomas Jefferson, Issue 113, Volume 2 |
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... Representatives - Dissatisfaction of the Republican Members - Livingston's Resolution calling for the Papers , and its Amendments- President refuses to send them - Kitchell's Resolutions Supported by Madison - They pass by a strong Vote ...
... Representatives - Dissatisfaction of the Republican Members - Livingston's Resolution calling for the Papers , and its Amendments- President refuses to send them - Kitchell's Resolutions Supported by Madison - They pass by a strong Vote ...
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... Representatives agree on Rules of Election - The Electoral Votes counted in the Senate - M . L. Davis's Fabrica- tions concerning the Georgia Returns - The Result a Tie between Jefferson and Burr- The prior Arrangements of the ...
... Representatives agree on Rules of Election - The Electoral Votes counted in the Senate - M . L. Davis's Fabrica- tions concerning the Georgia Returns - The Result a Tie between Jefferson and Burr- The prior Arrangements of the ...
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... Representatives this session . Among the other conspicuous new members , were William Findley and Andrew Gregg , of Pennsylvania ; Jonathan Dayton , of New Jersey ; General Artemas Ward , of Massachusetts ; and James Hillhouse , of ...
... Representatives this session . Among the other conspicuous new members , were William Findley and Andrew Gregg , of Pennsylvania ; Jonathan Dayton , of New Jersey ; General Artemas Ward , of Massachusetts ; and James Hillhouse , of ...
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... representatives ( say to 100 ) and lengthening somewhat their term , and proportion them equally among the electors . Adopt also a better mode of appointing senators . Render the Executive a more desirable post to men of abilities by ...
... representatives ( say to 100 ) and lengthening somewhat their term , and proportion them equally among the electors . Adopt also a better mode of appointing senators . Render the Executive a more desirable post to men of abilities by ...
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... representatives , because he was understood to have " rendered himself agreeable " to the Court or Executive branch of the Govern- ment ? As persons enough could have been found unobjectionable to the latter , and at the same time ...
... representatives , because he was understood to have " rendered himself agreeable " to the Court or Executive branch of the Govern- ment ? As persons enough could have been found unobjectionable to the latter , and at the same time ...
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Page 588 - ... a well-disciplined militia, our best reliance in peace and for the first moments of war, till regulars may relieve them; the supremacy of the civil over the military authority; economy in the public expense, that labor may be lightly burdened; the honest payment of our debts, and sacred preservation of the public faith...
Page 524 - I have sworn upon the altar of god, eternal hostility against ] every form of tyranny over the mind of man.
Page 588 - Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the government of himself. Can he, then, be trusted with the government of others ? Or have we found angels in the form of kings to govern him ? Let history answer this question.
Page 587 - During the throes and convulsions of the ancient world, during the agonizing spasms of infuriated man, seeking through blood and slaughter his long-lost liberty, it was not wonderful that the agitation of the billows should reach even this distant and peaceful shore...
Page 354 - That if any person shall write, print, utter, or publish, or shall cause or procure to be written, printed, uttered, or published, or shall knowingly and willingly assist or aid in writing, printing, uttering, or publishing, any false, scandalous, and malicious writing or writings, against the Government of the United States...
Page 84 - In the struggle which was necessary, many guilty persons fell without the forms of trial, and with them some innocent. These I deplore as much as anybody, and shall deplore some of them to the day of my death. But I deplore them as I should have done had they fallen in battle.
Page 354 - ... the United States, or to stir up sedition within the United States, or to excite any unlawful combinations therein, for opposing or resisting any law of the United States...
Page 261 - Against us are the Executive, the Judiciary, two out of three branches of the Legislature, all the officers of the government, all who want to be officers, all timid men who prefer the calm of despotism to the boisterous sea of liberty...
Page 406 - That this would be to surrender the form of government we have chosen, and to live under one deriving its powers from its own will, and not from our authority ; and that the co-states recurring to their natural right in cases not made federal, will concur in declaring these acts void and of no force, and will each unite with this Commonwealth in requesting their repeal at the next session of Congress.
Page 262 - It would give you a fever were I to name to you the apostates who have gone over to these heresies, men who were Samsons in the field and Solomons in the council, but who have had their heads shorn by the harlot England.