The Pictorial History of the American Revolution: With a Sketch of the Early History of the Country. The Constitution of the United States, and a Chronological IndexR. Sears, 1850 - 432 páginas |
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... engaged . 142 1775. Committee appointed to correspond with their Friends in Britain and Ireland . Ships - of - War PAGE . 175 175 Colonial Army 143 • Bravery of General Putnam · 143 • New York , New Jersey , Philadelphia , Mary- land ...
... engaged . 142 1775. Committee appointed to correspond with their Friends in Britain and Ireland . Ships - of - War PAGE . 175 175 Colonial Army 143 • Bravery of General Putnam · 143 • New York , New Jersey , Philadelphia , Mary- land ...
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... engaged to do , their majesties now passed grants , making good what they had before promised him . When his majesty rode through Barcelona , he would make the admiral ride by his side , an honor , till then , peculiar to the princes of ...
... engaged to do , their majesties now passed grants , making good what they had before promised him . When his majesty rode through Barcelona , he would make the admiral ride by his side , an honor , till then , peculiar to the princes of ...
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... engaged in some successful naval op- erations on the Spanish coast ; and it was then determined , that in the Dolphin , with fifty men , provisioned for eight months , he should prosecute his original design of discovery . After a ...
... engaged in some successful naval op- erations on the Spanish coast ; and it was then determined , that in the Dolphin , with fifty men , provisioned for eight months , he should prosecute his original design of discovery . After a ...
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... engaged in war , he found leisure to study the histories of the discoveries of Columbus , the conquests of Cortes , and the sanguinary triumphs of Pizarro , which books were his especial favorites . By the study of the Spanish voyages ...
... engaged in war , he found leisure to study the histories of the discoveries of Columbus , the conquests of Cortes , and the sanguinary triumphs of Pizarro , which books were his especial favorites . By the study of the Spanish voyages ...
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... engaged in hostilities with a neigh- boring nation , and that the absence of the king was occasioned by severe wounds lately received in battle , of which he lay sick at the chief town , six miles off . His brother , after a few days ...
... engaged in hostilities with a neigh- boring nation , and that the absence of the king was occasioned by severe wounds lately received in battle , of which he lay sick at the chief town , six miles off . His brother , after a few days ...
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Página 425 - Each House shall keep a Journal of its Proceedings, and from time to time publish the same, excepting such Parts as may in their Judgment require Secrecy ; and the Yeas and Nays of the Members of either House on any question shall, at the Desire of one fifth of those Present, be entered on the Journal.
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Página 429 - ... shall have been committed ; but when not committed within any stale, the trial shall be at such place or places as the congress may by law have directed. Section 3. — 1. Treason against the United States shall consist only in levying war against them, or in adhering to their enemies, giving them aid and comfort. No person shall be convicted of treason unless on the testimony of two witnesses to the same overt act, or on confession in open court.
Página 120 - I rejoice that America has resisted. Three millions of people, so dead to all the feelings of liberty as voluntarily to submit to be slaves, would have been fit instruments to make slaves of the rest.
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Página 425 - ... Each house shall be the judge of the elections, returns and qualifications of its own members, and a majority of each shall constitute a quorum to do business ; but a smaller number may adjourn from day to day, and may be authorized to compel the attendance of absent members, in such manner, and under such penalties as each house may provide.
Página 425 - ... 3. No person shall be a senator who shall not have attained to the age of thirty years, and been nine years a citizen of the United States, and who shall not, when elected, be an inhabitant of that state for which he shall be chosen.
Página 430 - The United States shall guaranty to every state in this Union a republican form of government, and shall protect each of them against invasion ; and on application of the legislature, or of the executive, (when the legislature cannot be convened.) against domestic violence.
Página 432 - The person having the greatest number of votes as Vice-President shall be the Vice-President, if such number be a majority of the whole number of electors appointed ; and if no person have a majority, then from the two highest numbers on the list the Senate shall choose the Vice-President; a quorum for the purpose shall consist of two thirds of the whole number of Senators, and a majority of the whole number shall be necessary to a choice. 3. But no person constitutionally ineligible to the office...