Essays on the Constitution of the United States: Published During Its Discussion by the People, 1787-1788Paul Leicester Ford Historical Printing Club, 1892 - 424 páginas |
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... Convention ; many were members of the State Conventions , and there dis- cussed the Constitution . All had had a wide experience in law and government . Their arguments are valuable , not merely for their reasoning , but from their ...
... Convention ; many were members of the State Conventions , and there dis- cussed the Constitution . All had had a wide experience in law and government . Their arguments are valuable , not merely for their reasoning , but from their ...
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... Convention shall think most proper for them to adopt . In the name of common sense , what can that scribbler mean by this as- sertion ? Is a scandalous abuse of our rulers - the propagation of sentiments which are calculated to set the ...
... Convention shall think most proper for them to adopt . In the name of common sense , what can that scribbler mean by this as- sertion ? Is a scandalous abuse of our rulers - the propagation of sentiments which are calculated to set the ...
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... convention have not spared their censures upon it : they have stigmatized it with every odious appellation that can be named ; but amidst all their railing , have not so much as hinted at a form of government that would be proper for us ...
... convention have not spared their censures upon it : they have stigmatized it with every odious appellation that can be named ; but amidst all their railing , have not so much as hinted at a form of government that would be proper for us ...
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... convention , as there were for adopting the constitution of this State some years ago ? Do you suppose the inhabitants of Mas- sachusetts have depreciated in their understanding ? or do you suppose that the sublimity of your jargon has ...
... convention , as there were for adopting the constitution of this State some years ago ? Do you suppose the inhabitants of Mas- sachusetts have depreciated in their understanding ? or do you suppose that the sublimity of your jargon has ...
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... convention assembled together ; like them too , have they been infested with the presence of Satan , or such as were influenced by Satanick principles , and who wish to thwart every design that has a tendency to promote the general good ...
... convention assembled together ; like them too , have they been infested with the presence of Satan , or such as were influenced by Satanick principles , and who wish to thwart every design that has a tendency to promote the general good ...
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Página 299 - Regulating the trade and managing all affairs with the Indians, not members of any of the States ; provided that the legislative right of any State within its own limits be not infringed or violated...
Página 20 - Now there was a day when the sons of God came to present themselves before the LORD, and Satan came also among them. And the LOHD said unto Satan, Whence comest thou? Then Satan answered the LORD, and said, From going to and fro in the earth, and from walking up and down in it.
Página 167 - Constitution which we now present, is the result of a spirit of amity and of that mutual deference and concession which the peculiarity of our political situation rendered indispensable.
Página 167 - In all our deliberations on this subject we kept steadily in our view that which appears to us the greatest interest of every true American, the consolidation of our Union, in which is involved our prosperity, felicity, safety, perhaps our national existence.
Página 169 - ... receive the sacrament of the Lord's supper, according to the usage of the Church of England...
Página 297 - Britain, and it is necessary that the exercise of every kind of authority under the said crown should be totally suppressed and all the powers of government exerted under the authority of the people of the colonies...
Página 99 - And provided further, that the said Corporation shall confer no Degrees other than those of Bachelor of Arts & Master of Arts until after the first day of January, which will be in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred. And...
Página 306 - No member of this state shall be disfranchised, or deprived of any of the rights or privileges secured to any citizen thereof, unless by the law of the land or the judgment of his peers.
Página 23 - The insulting tyrant, prancing o'er the field, Strewed with Rome's citizens, and drenched in slaughter; His horse's hoofs wet with patrician blood! Oh, Portius! is there not some chosen curse, Some hidden thunder in the stores of Heaven, Red with uncommon wrath, to blast the man, Who owes his greatness to his country's ruin?
Página 44 - ... shall be valid to all intents and purposes, as part of this constitution when ratified by the legislatures of three-fourths of the several states, or by conventions in three-fourths thereof...