The Writings of Thomas Jefferson, 第 7 卷Issued under the auspices of the Thomas Jefferson memorial association of the United States, 1903 |
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第 179 頁 - ... shall address themselves to the courts, judges, and officers competent, and shall demand the said deserters in writing^ proving by an exhibition of the registers of the vessel's or ship's roll, or other public documents, that those men were part of the said crews ; and, on this demand so proved, (saving, however, where the contrary is proved,) the delivery shall not be refused.
第 454 頁 - The question, whether one generation of men has a right to bind another, seems never to have been started either on this or our side of the water. Yet it is a question of such consequences as not only to merit decision, but place also among the fundamental principles of every government.
第 177 頁 - If a subject of the Most Christian King and a citizen of the United States, or a foreigner, are interested in the said cargo, the average shall be settled by the tribunals of the country, and not by the consuls or...
第 459 頁 - On similar ground it may be proved, that no society can make a perpetual constitution, or even a perpetual law.
第 433 頁 - I hope the terms of Excellency, Honor, Worship, Esquire, forever disappear from among us, from that moment : I wish that of Mr. would follow them.
第 183 頁 - It does the highest honor to the third, as being, in my opinion, the best commentary on the principles of government, which ever was written.
第 454 頁 - I suppose to be self-evident, that the earth belongs in usufruct to the living : that the dead have neither powers nor rights over it. The portion occupied by any individual ceases to be his when himself ceases to be, and reverts to the society.
第 xxxi 頁 - 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 connections between them and the State of Great Britain, is and ought to be totally dissolved...
第 98 頁 - A declaration, that the federal government will never restrain the presses from printing any thing they please, will not take away the liability of the printers for false facts printed.
第 461 頁 - We have already given in example one effectual check to the Dog of war by transferring the power of letting him loose from the Executive to the Legislative body, from those who are to spend to those who are to pay.