A Dictionary of American PoliticsA.L. Burt, 1892 - 596 pages |
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... adopted the profession of law . He served in both Houses of the Massachusetts Legislature and was candidate for Vice - President with Van Buren . He served as Repre- sentative in the Thirty - sixth Congress , and was re- elected to the ...
... adopted the profession of law . He served in both Houses of the Massachusetts Legislature and was candidate for Vice - President with Van Buren . He served as Repre- sentative in the Thirty - sixth Congress , and was re- elected to the ...
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... 14 , 1819. On January 11 , 1861 , an ordinance of secession was adopted in a State convention and by Act of June 25 , 1868 , DICTIONARY OF AMERICAN POLITICS . 11 remainder were admitted to the Union and the dates on ...
... 14 , 1819. On January 11 , 1861 , an ordinance of secession was adopted in a State convention and by Act of June 25 , 1868 , DICTIONARY OF AMERICAN POLITICS . 11 remainder were admitted to the Union and the dates on ...
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... adopted about 1776. It is sometimes quoted , " All men are born free and equal . " That form was used in the constitution adopted by Massachusetts in 1780 . All Quiet Along the Potomac . - This phrase be- came proverbial during the fall ...
... adopted about 1776. It is sometimes quoted , " All men are born free and equal . " That form was used in the constitution adopted by Massachusetts in 1780 . All Quiet Along the Potomac . - This phrase be- came proverbial during the fall ...
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... adopted from time to time . The first Congress , on September 25 , 1789 , passed twelve amendments , two of which were not ratified . The remaining ten , having been ratified by all the States except Massachusetts , Connecticut and ...
... adopted from time to time . The first Congress , on September 25 , 1789 , passed twelve amendments , two of which were not ratified . The remaining ten , having been ratified by all the States except Massachusetts , Connecticut and ...
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... adopted may be mentioned a few of the most important . Jefferson suggested an amendment to assure the consti- tutionality of the Louisiana purchase , but his bargain was universally accepted as valid without such amend- ment . The same ...
... adopted may be mentioned a few of the most important . Jefferson suggested an amendment to assure the consti- tutionality of the Louisiana purchase , but his bargain was universally accepted as valid without such amend- ment . The same ...
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Page 38 - All controversies concerning the private right of soil, claimed under different grants of two or more States, whose jurisdictions as they may respect such lands and the States which passed such grants are adjusted, the said grants or either of them being at the same time claimed to have originated antecedent to such settlement of jurisdiction, shall, on the petition of either party to the Congress of the United States, be finally determined, as near as may be in the same manner as is before prescribed...
Page 39 - ... clothe, arm, and equip as many of such extra number as they judge can be safely spared, and the officers and men so clothed, armed, and equipped shall march to the place appointed, and within the time agreed on by the United States, in Congress assembled.
Page 204 - This government, the offspring of our own choice uninfluenced and unawed, adopted upon full investigation and mature deliberation, completely free in its principles, in the distribution of its powers, uniting security with energy, and containing within itself a provision for its own amendment, has a just claim to your confidence and your support. Respect for its authority, compliance with its laws, acquiescence in its measures, are duties enjoined by the fundamental maxims of true liberty. The basis...
Page 157 - For cutting off our trade with all parts of the world : For imposing taxes on us without our consent : For depriving us, in many cases, of the benefits of trial by jury: For transporting us beyond seas to be tried for pretended offenses : For abolishing the free system of English laws in a neighboring province...
Page 203 - These considerations speak a persuasive language to every reflecting and virtuous mind, and exhibit the continuance of the UNION as a primary object of Patriotic desire. Is there a doubt, whether a common government can embrace so large a sphere ? Let experience solve it. To listen to mere speculation in such a case were criminal. We are authorized to hope, that a proper organization of the whole, with the auxiliary agency of governments for the respective subdivisions, will afford a happy issue...
Page 40 - And the articles of this Confederation shall be inviolably observed by every State, and the union shall be perpetual ; nor shall any alteration at any time hereafter be made in any of them, unless such alteration be agreed to in a Congress of the United States, and be afterwards confirmed by the legislatures of every State.
Page 206 - Courts of Justice? And let us with caution indulge the supposition, that morality can be maintained without religion. Whatever may be conceded to the influence of refined education on minds of peculiar structure, reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principle.
Page 204 - They serve to organize faction; to give it an artificial and extraordinary force; to put in the place of the delegated will of the nation the will of a party, often a small but artful and enterprising minority of the community...
Page 203 - Hence, likewise, they will avoid the necessity of those overgrown military establishments which, under any form of government, are inauspicious to liberty, and which are to be regarded as particularly hostile to republican liberty; in this sense it is that your union ought to be considered as a main prop of your liberty, and that the love of the one ought to endear to you the preservation of the other.
Page 203 - In contemplating the causes which may disturb our union, it occurs as a matter of serious concern, that any ground should have been furnished for characterizing parties by Geographical discriminations: Northern and Southern; Atlantic and Western; whence designing men may endeavor to excite a belief that there is a real difference of local interests and views.