A History of the American People, Band 2

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Harper & brothers, 1918
 

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Seite 135 - I choose to solve the controversy with this small distinction, and it belongs to all three: any government is free to the people under it (whatever be the frame) where the laws rule and the people are a party to those laws, and more than this is tyranny, oligarchy, or confusion.
Seite 220 - ... to licentiousness and profaneness, nor to the civil injury or outward disturbance of others...
Seite 253 - ... ordained or provided, or any other matter cause or thing whatsoever to the Contrary thereof in any wise Notwithstanding. In Witness whereof We have caused these Our Letters to be made Patents. Witness Ourself at Westminster the twelfth day of March in the Sixteenth Year of Our Reign.
Seite 237 - Company, and their successors; although express mention of the true yearly value or certainty of the premises, or any of them, or of any other gifts or grants, by us, or by any of our progenitors or predecessors...
Seite 312 - The first planters in these parts were the Dutch, and soon after them the Swedes and Finns. The Dutch applied themselves to traffic, the Swedes and Finns to husbandry.
Seite 235 - And further, know ye, that we, of our more abundant grace, certain knowledge, and mere motion, have given, granted and confirmed, and by these presents, for us, our heirs and successors...
Seite 217 - ... at any time hereafter, shall be any wise molested, punished, disquieted, or called in question, for any differences in opinion in matters of religion, and do not actually disturb the civil peace of our said colony; but that all and every person and persons may, from time to time, and at all times hereafter, freely and fully have and enjoy his and their own judgments and consciences, in matters of religious concernments...
Seite 220 - ... corporate, with the powers and privileges hereinafter mentioned. And accordingly our will and pleasure is, and of our especial grace, certain knowledge, and mere motion, we have ordained, constituted and declared, and by these presents for us, our heirs and successors, do ordain, constitute and declare, That they, the said William Brenton, William Codington, Nicholas Easton, Benedict Arnold, William Boulston, John Porter, Samuel Gorton, John Smith, John...
Seite 316 - Sculkill, whereby it hath two fronts upon the water, each a mile, and two from river to river.
Seite 187 - Courte if they be present, and in case of absence by some deputed for that purpose. 5. It is Ordered, sentenced and decreed, that to the aforesaid Courte of Election the...

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