Biography of the Signers to the Declaration of Independence, 第 7 卷R. W. Pomeroy, 1827 |
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... constitution and laws . They acknowledged , that the measures they had adopted were not the result of choice , but the exercise of a right if not a duty , re- sulting from this very situation ; they confessed that they were engaged in a ...
... constitution and laws . They acknowledged , that the measures they had adopted were not the result of choice , but the exercise of a right if not a duty , re- sulting from this very situation ; they confessed that they were engaged in a ...
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... constitution , and unacknowledged by our laws ; giving his assent to their acts of pretended legislation , For quartering large bodies of armed troops among us : For protecting them , by mock trial , from punishment for any murders ...
... constitution , and unacknowledged by our laws ; giving his assent to their acts of pretended legislation , For quartering large bodies of armed troops among us : For protecting them , by mock trial , from punishment for any murders ...
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... constitution , nor ever in idea , if history may be credited ; and we [ have ] appealed to their native justice and magnanimity , as well as to [ and we have conjured them by ] the ties of our common kindred , to disavow these ...
... constitution , nor ever in idea , if history may be credited ; and we [ have ] appealed to their native justice and magnanimity , as well as to [ and we have conjured them by ] the ties of our common kindred , to disavow these ...
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... act , in which their future welfare was so deeply involved , they adopted their constitution in the following month . Mr. Jefferson was at this time . absent in Philadelphia , a delegate to congress ; foreseeing 38 JEFFERSON .
... act , in which their future welfare was so deeply involved , they adopted their constitution in the following month . Mr. Jefferson was at this time . absent in Philadelphia , a delegate to congress ; foreseeing 38 JEFFERSON .
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... constitution had been adopted , breathing in every article the most vehement spirit of equal rights , and established on the downfall of arbitrary rule . In the following December , a serious proposition was made to establish a dictator ...
... constitution had been adopted , breathing in every article the most vehement spirit of equal rights , and established on the downfall of arbitrary rule . In the following December , a serious proposition was made to establish a dictator ...
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第 102 頁 - Still one thing more, fellow-citizens, a wise and frugal government, which shall restrain men from injuring one another, shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned.
第 103 頁 - 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; the preservation of the general government in its whole constitutional vigor, as the sheet anchor of our peace at home and safety abroad...
第 104 頁 - These principles form the bright constellation which has gone before us, and guided our steps through an age of revolution and reformation. The wisdom of our sages and blood of our heroes have been devoted to their attainment.
第 35 頁 - DO, in the name and by the authority of the good people of these colonies, solemnly publish and declare, that these united colonies, are, and of right ought to be, free and independent states ; that they are absolved from all allegiance to the British crown, and that all political connexion between them and the state of Great Britain, is and ought to be totally dissolved...
第 103 頁 - ... freedom of religion; freedom of the press, and freedom of person under the protection of the habeas corpus, and trial by juries impartially selected. These principles form the bright constellation which has gone before us and guided our steps through an age of revolution and reformation.
第 33 頁 - Nor have we been wanting in attentions to our British Brethren We have warned them from Time to Time of attempts by their Legislature to extend an unwarrantable Jurisdiction over us...
第 309 頁 - That the inhabitants of the English colonies in North America, by the immutable laws of nature, the principles of the English Constitution, and the several charters or compacts, have the following rights : Resolved, NCD 1.
第 28 頁 - But when a long train of abuses and usurpations [begun at a distinguished period and] pursuing invariably the same object, evinces a design to reduce them under absolute despotism, it is their right, it is their duty to throw off such government, and to provide new guards for their future security.
第 306 頁 - Whereas, since the close of the last war, the British parliament, claiming a power, of right, to bind the people of America by statutes in all cases whatsoever, hath, in some acts, expressly imposed taxes on them, and in others, under various pretences, but in fact for the purpose of raising a revenue, hath imposed rates and duties payable in these colonies...