Biography of the Signers to the Declaration of Independence, Band 7R. W. Pomeroy, 1827 |
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... conduct and final triumph of the cause . The year 1774 , found Mr. Jefferson still an active member of the legislature of Virginia . The passage of the Boston Port Act , and the bills which immediately followed it , had filled up the ...
... conduct and final triumph of the cause . The year 1774 , found Mr. Jefferson still an active member of the legislature of Virginia . The passage of the Boston Port Act , and the bills which immediately followed it , had filled up the ...
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... conduct of the king , as holding the executive powers of the laws of these states , and points out , with- out restraint , his deviation from the line of duty ; he asserts , that by the unjust exercise of his negative power , he had ...
... conduct of the king , as holding the executive powers of the laws of these states , and points out , with- out restraint , his deviation from the line of duty ; he asserts , that by the unjust exercise of his negative power , he had ...
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... , wherein they set forth the unjust conduct of the governor , which had left them this , the only method to point out to their countrymen , the mea- sures they deemed the best fitted to secure their rights 18 JEFFERSON .
... , wherein they set forth the unjust conduct of the governor , which had left them this , the only method to point out to their countrymen , the mea- sures they deemed the best fitted to secure their rights 18 JEFFERSON .
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... conduct , however pure in its ends , cannot be but uncertain in its results ; and though even the thinking and the good will not hesitate , when no other means are left to preserve those rights without which happiness is only a name ...
... conduct , however pure in its ends , cannot be but uncertain in its results ; and though even the thinking and the good will not hesitate , when no other means are left to preserve those rights without which happiness is only a name ...
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... conduct , as well as of success in its end , would be attended with even more than ridicule or disgrace . Nor was it in America alone , that its effects would be felt ; it was a document to guide other nations in their course of policy ...
... conduct , as well as of success in its end , would be attended with even more than ridicule or disgrace . Nor was it in America alone , that its effects would be felt ; it was a document to guide other nations in their course of policy ...
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Seite 102 - Still one thing more, fellow-citizens, a wise and frugal government, which shall restrain men from injuring one another, shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned.
Seite 103 - Equal and exact justice to all men, of whatever state or persuasion, religious or political; peace, commerce, and honest friendship with all nations, entangling alliances with none; the support of the State governments in all their rights, as the most competent administrations for our domestic concerns and the surest bulwarks against anti-republican tendencies; the preservation of the general government in its whole constitutional vigor, as the sheet anchor of our peace at home and safety abroad...
Seite 104 - These principles form the bright constellation which has gone before us, and guided our steps through an age of revolution and reformation. The wisdom of our sages and blood of our heroes have been devoted to their attainment.
Seite 35 - DO, in the name and by the authority of the good people of these colonies, solemnly publish and declare, that these united colonies, are, and of right ought to be, free and independent states ; that they are absolved from all allegiance to the British crown, and that all political connexion between them and the state of Great Britain, is and ought to be totally dissolved...
Seite 103 - ... freedom of religion; freedom of the press, and freedom of person under the protection of the habeas corpus, and trial by juries impartially selected. These principles form the bright constellation which has gone before us and guided our steps through an age of revolution and reformation.
Seite 33 - Nor have we been wanting in attentions to our British Brethren We have warned them from Time to Time of attempts by their Legislature to extend an unwarrantable Jurisdiction over us...
Seite 309 - That the inhabitants of the English colonies in North America, by the immutable laws of nature, the principles of the English Constitution, and the several charters or compacts, have the following rights : Resolved, NCD 1.
Seite 28 - But when a long train of abuses and usurpations [begun at a distinguished period and] pursuing invariably the same object, evinces a design to reduce them under absolute despotism, it is their right, it is their duty to throw off such government, and to provide new guards for their future security.
Seite 306 - Whereas, since the close of the last war, the British parliament, claiming a power, of right, to bind the people of America by statutes in all cases whatsoever, hath, in some acts, expressly imposed taxes on them, and in others, under various pretences, but in fact for the purpose of raising a revenue, hath imposed rates and duties payable in these colonies...