The American Nation: The confederation and the Constitution, 1783-1789Albert Bushnell Hart Harper & Brothers, 1905 - 348 頁 |
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... passed over the Pyrenees to the pleasanter task of negotiat- ing for peace with men that were willing to treat 1 Secret Journals of Congress , June 13 , 14 , 1781 . ' Wharton , Dip . Corresp . of Am . Rev. , IV . , 65 , 102 , V. , 68 ...
... passed over the Pyrenees to the pleasanter task of negotiat- ing for peace with men that were willing to treat 1 Secret Journals of Congress , June 13 , 14 , 1781 . ' Wharton , Dip . Corresp . of Am . Rev. , IV . , 65 , 102 , V. , 68 ...
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... passed regarding the con- fiscation of lands belonging to British subjects as to render the acts consistent with justice and equity . Only the tenacity of Adams retained the guaranty of the right of citizens of the United States to ...
... passed regarding the con- fiscation of lands belonging to British subjects as to render the acts consistent with justice and equity . Only the tenacity of Adams retained the guaranty of the right of citizens of the United States to ...
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... passed over into Nova Scotia or settled in Canada to be the Pilgrim Fathers of the Dominion - no country , above all , that was forced to establish lasting political institutions and to undertake a great constructive task that might ...
... passed over into Nova Scotia or settled in Canada to be the Pilgrim Fathers of the Dominion - no country , above all , that was forced to establish lasting political institutions and to undertake a great constructive task that might ...
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... passing across the continent . ' The highways of Pennsylvania were often almost impassable , and travel on them was ... passed between Port- land , Maine , and Suffolk , Virginia , but from Suf- Three times a week 1 Brissot de Warville ...
... passing across the continent . ' The highways of Pennsylvania were often almost impassable , and travel on them was ... passed between Port- land , Maine , and Suffolk , Virginia , but from Suf- Three times a week 1 Brissot de Warville ...
第 68 頁
... passed over the river to Princeton , ' and there for a time con- tinued its helpless process of recommendation and appeal . The event , though not particularly serious in its consequences , was a dramatic representation of the ...
... passed over the river to Princeton , ' and there for a time con- tinued its helpless process of recommendation and appeal . The event , though not particularly serious in its consequences , was a dramatic representation of the ...
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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.