The American Nation: The confederation and the Constitution, 1783-1789Albert Bushnell Hart Harper & Brothers, 1905 - 348 頁 |
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... danger of national dissolution as people then and since have supposed . Certainly the trend of this volume is to show a more orderly , logical , and inevitable march of events than has commonly been described . The volume articulates ...
... danger of national dissolution as people then and since have supposed . Certainly the trend of this volume is to show a more orderly , logical , and inevitable march of events than has commonly been described . The volume articulates ...
第 42 頁
... danger even to the states themselves , and the time might come when the men in the individual states would anx- iously turn to national authority for relief . It was , moreover , much easier for the people to allow the 1 Jay , Corresp ...
... danger even to the states themselves , and the time might come when the men in the individual states would anx- iously turn to national authority for relief . It was , moreover , much easier for the people to allow the 1 Jay , Corresp ...
第 59 頁
... danger . It will be remembered that there was no assurance that the war would not be renewed , and it was necessary still to maintain the army . The main body of the troops was gathered at Newburg on the Hudson . The soldiers were ...
... danger . It will be remembered that there was no assurance that the war would not be renewed , and it was necessary still to maintain the army . The main body of the troops was gathered at Newburg on the Hudson . The soldiers were ...
第 60 頁
... danger , but it was respectful and noble . Congress was told plainly that further experiment on the patience of the soldiers would be perilous.1 Strong and incisive as were the letters of Morris and the other officials , they give ...
... danger , but it was respectful and noble . Congress was told plainly that further experiment on the patience of the soldiers would be perilous.1 Strong and incisive as were the letters of Morris and the other officials , they give ...
第 61 頁
... dangerous tone was taken by Gouverneur Morris , a young man of immense en- ergy , enthusiasm , and self - confidence , then acting as assistant to Robert Morris ; he looked at the danger of an army uprising almost with hope . " The army ...
... dangerous tone was taken by Gouverneur Morris , a young man of immense en- ergy , enthusiasm , and self - confidence , then acting as assistant to Robert Morris ; he looked at the danger of an army uprising almost with hope . " The army ...
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第 305 頁 - October last past ; and acknowledging, with grateful hearts, the goodness of the Supreme Ruler of the Universe, in affording the people of the United States, in the course of his providence, an opportunity, deliberately and peaceably, without fraud or surprise, of entering into an explicit and solemn compact with each other, by assenting to and ratifying a new Constitution...
第 18 頁 - Croix River to the Highlands; along the said Highlands which divide those rivers that empty themselves into the river St. Lawrence, from those which fall into the Atlantic Ocean...
第 117 頁 - An Ordinance for ascertaining the mode of disposing of Lands in the Western Territory.
第 292 頁 - The proposed constitution, therefore, even when tested by the rules laid down by its antagonists, is, in strictness, neither a national nor a federal constitution; but a composition of both. In its foundation it is federal, not national; in the sources from which the ordinary powers of the government are drawn, it is partly federal, and partly national; in the operation of these powers, it is national, not federal; in the extent of them again, it is federal, not national; and finally in...
第 100 頁 - 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...
第 99 頁 - That the United States in Congress assembled shall have the sole and exclusive right and power to ascertain and fix the western boundary of such States as claim to the Mississippi or South Sea, and lay out the land beyond the boundary so ascertained into separate and independent States from time to time as the numbers and circumstances of the people thereof may require.
第 56 頁 - And let me conjure you, in the name of our common country, as you value your own sacred honor, as you respect the rights of humanity, and as you regard the military and national character of America, to express your utmost horror and detestation of the man who wishes, under any specious pretenses, to overturn the liberties of our country, and who wickedly attempts to open the flood-gates of civil discord, and deluge our rising empire in blood.
第 54 頁 - Can you then consent to be the only sufferers by this Revolution and, retiring from the field, grow old in poverty, wretchedness and contempt? Can you consent to wade through the vile mire of dependency and owe the miserable remnant of that life to charity which has hitherto been spent in honor?
第 217 頁 - I have lived, Sir, a long time, and the longer I live, the more convincing proofs I see of this truth— that God governs in the affairs of men.
第 172 頁 - May next, to take into consideration the situation of the United 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 ; and to report such an act for that purpose to the United States in Congress assembled, as, when agreed to by them, and afterwards confirmed by the legislatures of every State, will effectually provide for the same.