Secret Journals of the Acts and Proceedings of Congress, from the First Meeting Thereof to the Dissolution of the Confederation: Domestick affairs. History of the ConfederationThomas B. Wait, 1821 - 464 páginas |
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... United States . RESOLVED by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled , That the Journal of the Convention which formed the present Con- stitution of the United States , now remaining ...
... United States . RESOLVED by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled , That the Journal of the Convention which formed the present Con- stitution of the United States , now remaining ...
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United States. Continental Congress. JUNE 20 , 1775 . TO GEORGE WASHINGTON , ESQ . This Congress having appointed you to be general and commander in chief of the army of the United Colonies , of all the forces raised or to be raised by ...
United States. Continental Congress. JUNE 20 , 1775 . TO GEORGE WASHINGTON , ESQ . This Congress having appointed you to be general and commander in chief of the army of the United Colonies , of all the forces raised or to be raised by ...
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... united army . 5. You shall take every method in your power , con- sistent with prudence , to destroy or make prisoners of all persons who now are , or who hereafter shall ap- pear in arms against the good people of the United Colonies ...
... united army . 5. You shall take every method in your power , con- sistent with prudence , to destroy or make prisoners of all persons who now are , or who hereafter shall ap- pear in arms against the good people of the United Colonies ...
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United States. Continental Congress. that , if the situation of affairs will admit of it , he take proper steps for erecting a fort at Oswego , and build- ing galleys on lake Ontario , and pursue such other measures as may be best fitted ...
United States. Continental Congress. that , if the situation of affairs will admit of it , he take proper steps for erecting a fort at Oswego , and build- ing galleys on lake Ontario , and pursue such other measures as may be best fitted ...
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United States. Continental Congress. son in protect the inhabitants in the enjoyment of their rights and property , he will receive under the protection of the United States , all such persons as shall repair to his standard within a ...
United States. Continental Congress. son in protect the inhabitants in the enjoyment of their rights and property , he will receive under the protection of the United States , all such persons as shall repair to his standard within a ...
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Página 397 - States, and to appropriate and apply the same for defraying the public expenses ; to borrow money or emit bills on the credit of the United States — transmitting every half year to the respective States an account of the sums of money so borrowed or emitted ; to build and equip a navy; to agree upon the number of land forces, and to make requisitions from each State for its quota, in proportion to the number of white inhabitants in such State...
Página 357 - All controversies concerning the private right of soil claimed under different grants of two or more states, whose jurisdictions, as they may respect such lands, and the states which passed such grants are adjusted, the said grants or either of them being at the same time claimed to have originated antecedent to such settlement of jurisdiction, shall, on the petition of either party to the Congress of the 'United States...
Página 354 - United States in Congress assembled can be consulted ; nor shall any State grant commissions to any ships or vessels of war, nor letters of marque or reprisal, except it be after a declaration of war by the United States in Congress assembled, and then only against the kingdom or state, and the subjects thereof, against which war has been so declared, and under such regulations as shall be established by the United States...
Página 359 - ... men, or should raise a smaller number than its quota, and that any other state should raise a greater number of men than the quota thereof, such extra number shall be raised, officered...
Página 458 - States — 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 — establishing and regulating post-offices from one State to another, throughout all the United States, and exacting such postage on the papers passing thro...
Página 455 - ... the united states in congress assembled, shall from time to time direct and appoint. The taxes for paying that proportion shall be laid and levied by the authority and direction of the legislatures of the several states within the time agreed upon by the united states in congress assembled.
Página 388 - The said states hereby severally enter into a firm league of friendship with each other for their common defense, the security of their liberties, and their mutual and general welfare, binding themselves to assist each other against all force offered to, or attacks made upon them, or any of them, on account of religion, sovereignty, trade, or any other pretense whatever.
Página 399 - The committee of the States, or any nine of them, shall be authorized to execute, in the recess of Congress, such of the powers of Congress as the United States, in Congress assembled, by the consent of nine States, shall, from time to time, think expedient to vest them with; provided that no power be delegated to the said committee, for the exercise of which, by the Articles of Confederation, the voice of nine States, in the Congress of the United States assembled, is requisite.
Página 450 - II. Each State retains its sovereignty, freedom, and independence, and every power, jurisdiction, and right, which is not by this confederation expressly delegated to the United States in Congress assembled.
Página 362 - And the articles of this confederation shall be inviolably observed by every State, and the Union shall be perpetual; nor shall any alteration at any time hereafter be made in any of them; unless such alteration be agreed to in a Congress of the United States, and be afterwards confirmed by the Legislatures of every State.