A Biography of the Signers of the Declaration of Independence: And of Washington and Patrick Henry. With an Appendix, Containing the Constitution of the United States and Other Documents, Volume 2J. Dobson, and Thomas, Cowperthwait & Company, 1839 - 354 pages |
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... delegated to them by the monarchy they cor- ruptly represented . So conclusive and luminous were his expositions of chartered rights on the one hand , and of accumulating wrongs on the other , that he soon became the nucleus of a band ...
... delegated to them by the monarchy they cor- ruptly represented . So conclusive and luminous were his expositions of chartered rights on the one hand , and of accumulating wrongs on the other , that he soon became the nucleus of a band ...
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... delegate to the convention that framed the federal constitution . Many of the bright traits of that matchless instrument received their finishing stroke from his master hand . Early in 1790 , his infirmities of body confined him to his ...
... delegate to the convention that framed the federal constitution . Many of the bright traits of that matchless instrument received their finishing stroke from his master hand . Early in 1790 , his infirmities of body confined him to his ...
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... delegates . Understanding the wants and feelings of the people , well versed in law and the principles of republicanism , and a ready writer , he was enabled to perform , in a few hours , a work that , in modern times , requires the ...
... delegates . Understanding the wants and feelings of the people , well versed in law and the principles of republicanism , and a ready writer , he was enabled to perform , in a few hours , a work that , in modern times , requires the ...
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... Delegates ; the same year a judge of the High Court of Chancery , and subsequently , under a new organization of the judiciary , sole chancellor . A more impar- tial judge never graced the bench than George Wythe . Nothing could induce ...
... Delegates ; the same year a judge of the High Court of Chancery , and subsequently , under a new organization of the judiciary , sole chancellor . A more impar- tial judge never graced the bench than George Wythe . Nothing could induce ...
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... delegates convened for the purpose , and immediately repaired to the key stone city and entered upon the important duties assigned him . The following year he was continued in that proud station , and affixed his name to the chart of ...
... delegates convened for the purpose , and immediately repaired to the key stone city and entered upon the important duties assigned him . The following year he was continued in that proud station , and affixed his name to the chart of ...
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Page 307 - It serves always to distract the public councils, and enfeeble the public administration. It agitates the community with ill-founded jealousies and false alarms; kindles the animosity of one part against another, foments occasionally riot and insurrection.
Page 339 - He has refused for a long time, after such dissolutions to cause others to be elected ; whereby the Legislative Powers, incapable of Annihilation, have returned to the People at large for their exercise ; the State remaining in the mean time exposed to all the dangers of invasion from without, and convulsions within.
Page 20 - ... equal and exact justice to all men, of whatever state or persuasion, religious or political; peace, commerce, and honest friendship with all nations, entangling alliances with none, the support of the state governments in all their rights, as the most competent administrations for our domestic concerns and the surest bulwarks against anti-republican tendencies...
Page 327 - 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 307 - Monarchical cast, patriotism may look with indulgence, if not with favor, upon the spirit of party. But in those of the popular character, in Governments purely elective, it is a spirit not to be encouraged. From their natural tendency, it is certain there will always be enough of that spirit for every salutary purpose. And, there being constant danger of excess, the effort ought to be, by force of public opinion, to mitigate and assuage it. A fire not to be quenched, it demands a uniform vigilance...
Page 332 - United States, whose Appointments are not herein otherwise provided for, and which shall be established by Law: but the Congress may by Law vest the Appointment of such inferior Officers, as they think proper, in the President alone, in the Courts of Law, or in the Heads of Departments.
Page 331 - Vice-President, declaring what officer shall then act as President, and such officer shall act accordingly until the disability be removed or a President shall be elected. 7. The President shall, at stated times, receive for his services a compensation which shall neither be increased nor...
Page 340 - Determined to keep open a market where MEN should be bought and sold, he has prostituted his negative for suppressing every legislative attempt to prohibit or restrain this execrable commerce.
Page 310 - Against the insidious wiles of foreign influence (I conjure you to believe me, fellowcitizens,) the jealousy of a free people ought to be constantly awake; since history and experience prove, that foreign influence is one of the most baneful foes of Republican Government.
Page 304 - The East, in a like intercourse with the West, already finds, and in the progressive improvement of interior communications by land and water, will more and more find, a valuable vent for the commodities which it brings from abroad, or manufactures at home. The West derives from the East supplies requisite to its growth and comfort, and, what is perhaps of still greater consequence, it must of necessity owe the secure enjoyment of indispensable outlets for its own productions to the weight, influence,...