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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... refer- ence to Venice and Holland have been omitted above . It is the simple truth , that at the time of the meeting of the Constitutional Convention , the only two nations actually possessing liberties were England and Switzerland ...
... refer- ence to Venice and Holland have been omitted above . It is the simple truth , that at the time of the meeting of the Constitutional Convention , the only two nations actually possessing liberties were England and Switzerland ...
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... refer to " distracted Holland " as a warning of what to avoid . - Elliot's Debates , V. 149. We hear Wilson say : " Switzerland and Holland are supported in their confederation , not by its intrinsic merit , but by the incumbent ...
... refer to " distracted Holland " as a warning of what to avoid . - Elliot's Debates , V. 149. We hear Wilson say : " Switzerland and Holland are supported in their confederation , not by its intrinsic merit , but by the incumbent ...
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... refers to that constitution as a " melancholy and monitory lesson of history . " In contrast with all this is the frank avowal of Hamilton in the Convention : " I believe the British government forms the best model the world ever ...
... refers to that constitution as a " melancholy and monitory lesson of history . " In contrast with all this is the frank avowal of Hamilton in the Convention : " I believe the British government forms the best model the world ever ...
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... refers to this remarkable silence , especially as affecting the pages of the Federalist , and ventures an explanation . " There is one fountain of political experience upon which the Federalist seldom draws , and that is the political ...
... refers to this remarkable silence , especially as affecting the pages of the Federalist , and ventures an explanation . " There is one fountain of political experience upon which the Federalist seldom draws , and that is the political ...
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... refers as the " origin of popular representation . " Thus , in 1213 , John summoned four knights out of each county to Oxford . In 1254 , forty years later , during the absence of Henry III . in Gascony , Queen Eleanor and the Earl of ...
... refers as the " origin of popular representation . " Thus , in 1213 , John summoned four knights out of each county to Oxford . In 1254 , forty years later , during the absence of Henry III . in Gascony , Queen Eleanor and the Earl of ...
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