The American Nation: The confederation and the Constitution, 1783-1789Albert Bushnell Hart Harper & Brothers, 1905 - 348 頁 |
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第 18 頁
... evidence of weakness would have damaged his cause . A digni- fied objection to being considered a delegate from rebellious colonies rather than a plenipotentiary from sovereign states was natural , legitimate , and useful . The ...
... evidence of weakness would have damaged his cause . A digni- fied objection to being considered a delegate from rebellious colonies rather than a plenipotentiary from sovereign states was natural , legitimate , and useful . The ...
第 19 頁
... evidence and depends on interpretation of personal conduct . First , it may be said that the episode of the Marbois letter , of which much has been said by historical writers , is of little importance . Suspicions have been thrown on ...
... evidence and depends on interpretation of personal conduct . First , it may be said that the episode of the Marbois letter , of which much has been said by historical writers , is of little importance . Suspicions have been thrown on ...
第 20 頁
... evidence before him he was , perhaps , justified in acting as he did . " And yet in his suspicions of France Jay was only partly right . If we free our minds from the old- fashioned notion that France entered the war and poured out her ...
... evidence before him he was , perhaps , justified in acting as he did . " And yet in his suspicions of France Jay was only partly right . If we free our minds from the old- fashioned notion that France entered the war and poured out her ...
第 22 頁
... evidence that Vergennes had much at heart the narrowing of American territory ; he wished , in order to bring peace and to appease Spain , that the claims of our commissioners should be kept just as low as possible . He was not at all ...
... evidence that Vergennes had much at heart the narrowing of American territory ; he wished , in order to bring peace and to appease Spain , that the claims of our commissioners should be kept just as low as possible . He was not at all ...
第 23 頁
... evidence that any such hope or purpose really determined his conduct . 2 As to what course the American commissioners should have taken , men still differ in opinion . The instructions , obtained as they were , need not be taken too ...
... evidence that any such hope or purpose really determined his conduct . 2 As to what course the American commissioners should have taken , men still differ in opinion . The instructions , obtained as they were , need not be taken too ...
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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.