The Republic, Or, A History of the United States of America in the Administrations: From the Monarchic Colonial Days to the Present Times, Volume 4Fairbanks and Palmer Publishing Company, 1886 - Presidents |
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... Senate and House of Delegates , and that after serving three years , if re- elected so often , he should then be ineligible for four years . The governor was to have a privy council , composed of eight members , as his advisers , and ...
... Senate and House of Delegates , and that after serving three years , if re- elected so often , he should then be ineligible for four years . The governor was to have a privy council , composed of eight members , as his advisers , and ...
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... Senate , and myself . The importunity of Mr. Page procured the addition of St. George Tucker , who is sensible , Federal , and skilled in commerce ; to whom was added , on the motion of I know not whom , Meriwether Smith , who is , at ...
... Senate , and myself . The importunity of Mr. Page procured the addition of St. George Tucker , who is sensible , Federal , and skilled in commerce ; to whom was added , on the motion of I know not whom , Meriwether Smith , who is , at ...
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... Senator ; and in similar ways did others of the thirteen original States circumscribe the great privilege of the early - day sovereigns . However numerous were the difficulties which the framers of the Constitution , by their work ...
... Senator ; and in similar ways did others of the thirteen original States circumscribe the great privilege of the early - day sovereigns . However numerous were the difficulties which the framers of the Constitution , by their work ...
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... Senate was concerned , slavery was taken from the contest by making the representation equal for all States , great ... Senators , and the most populous and important State having no more , this arrangement being called a federal feature ...
... Senate was concerned , slavery was taken from the contest by making the representation equal for all States , great ... Senators , and the most populous and important State having no more , this arrangement being called a federal feature ...
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... Senate a sine qua non . The large States , on the other hand , urged that as the new Government was to be drawn principally from the people immediately , and was to operate directly upon them , not on the States ; and , consequently ...
... Senate a sine qua non . The large States , on the other hand , urged that as the new Government was to be drawn principally from the people immediately , and was to operate directly upon them , not on the States ; and , consequently ...
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Page 399 - O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave? On the shore, dimly seen through the mists of the deep, Where the foe's haughty host in dread silence reposes, What is that which the breeze, o'er the towering steep, As it fitfully blows, half conceals, half discloses?
Page 399 - Oh ! say, can you see, by the dawn's early light, What so proudly we hailed at the twilight's last gleaming? Whose broad stripes and bright stars through the perilous fight, O'er the ramparts we watched were so gallantly streaming...
Page 267 - That war be, and the same is hereby, declared to exist between the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, and the dependencies thereof, and the United States of America and their territories...
Page 21 - I appeal to any white man to say, if ever he entered Logan's cabin hungry, and he gave him not meat; if ever he came cold and naked, and he clothed him not. During the course of the last long and bloody war, Logan remained idle in his cabin, an advocate for peace. Such was my love for the whites, that my countrymen pointed as they passed, and said, 'Logan is the friend of white men.
Page 90 - Resd. therefore that the rights of suffrage in the National Legislature ought to be proportioned to the Quotas of contribution, or to the number of free inhabitants, as the one or the other rule may seem best in different cases.
Page 399 - Their blood has wash'd out their foul footsteps' pollution. No refuge could save the hireling and slave From the terror of flight or the gloom of the grave: And the star-spangled banner in triumph doth wave O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave.
Page 30 - General Congress, be instructed to propose to that respectable body, TO DECLARE THE UNITED COLONIES FREE AND INDEPENDENT STATES, absolved from all allegiance to or dependence upon the crown or Parliament of Great Britain...
Page 254 - Instead of this reasonable step towards satisfaction and friendship between the two nations, the orders were, at a moment when least to have been expected, put into more rigorous execution; and it was communicated through the British envoy just arrived, that whilst the revocation of the edicts of France, as officially made known to the British government, was denied to have taken place, it was an indispensable condition of the repeal of the British Orders, that commerce should be restored to a footing...
Page 91 - Magistracy, existing at the time of increase or diminution, and to be ineligible a second time; and that besides a general authority to execute the National Laws, it ought to enjoy the Executive rights vested in Congress by the Confederation.
Page 239 - An act concerning the commercial intercourse between the United States and Great Britain and France and their dependencies, and for other purposes...