Sources of the Constitution of the United States, Considered in Relation to Colonial and English HistoryMacmillan and Company, 1894 - 277 páginas |
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... existence by point- ing out that the mother of William Penn was Dutch . However this may be , Penn's father and family were English , and he always accounted himself an Englishman . That , with local modifications , the institutions of ...
... existence by point- ing out that the mother of William Penn was Dutch . However this may be , Penn's father and family were English , and he always accounted himself an Englishman . That , with local modifications , the institutions of ...
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... existence . " 1 But it is important to bear in mind , that the Revo- lution disarranged but slightly the fabric of government in the individual colonies . " It did not , " Webster has affirmed , " subvert the local laws and local ...
... existence . " 1 But it is important to bear in mind , that the Revo- lution disarranged but slightly the fabric of government in the individual colonies . " It did not , " Webster has affirmed , " subvert the local laws and local ...
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... existence was simply the result of an emergency created by the need of united opposition to the home authorities . Its powers rested upon the acquiescence of the several colonies and were temporary and transitional . And it was re ...
... existence was simply the result of an emergency created by the need of united opposition to the home authorities . Its powers rested upon the acquiescence of the several colonies and were temporary and transitional . And it was re ...
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... existence in peace ; and peculiar calamities from war . It was long ago remarked by Grotius , that nothing but the hatred of his countrymen to the house of Austria kept them from being ruined - - 1 models existed in the chief political ...
... existence in peace ; and peculiar calamities from war . It was long ago remarked by Grotius , that nothing but the hatred of his countrymen to the house of Austria kept them from being ruined - - 1 models existed in the chief political ...
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... existence . " — Ibid . V. 234. Both of these men would have liked to see the British Constitution copied more nearly than the differing conditions of America permitted . References to English usages and precedents are scattered thickly ...
... existence . " — Ibid . V. 234. Both of these men would have liked to see the British Constitution copied more nearly than the differing conditions of America permitted . References to English usages and precedents are scattered thickly ...
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