Notes on the State of Virginia: With an Appendix Relative to the Murder of Logan's FamilyWilson & Blackwell, 1803 - 363 Seiten |
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... Delegates , composed of two members from each county , chosen annually by the citi- zens possessing an estate for life in 100 acres of uninhabited land , or 25 acres with a house on it , or in a house or lot in some town : the other ...
... Delegates , composed of two members from each county , chosen annually by the citi- zens possessing an estate for life in 100 acres of uninhabited land , or 25 acres with a house on it , or in a house or lot in some town : the other ...
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... delegates to congress . As the dis . memberment of the state had never had its con- firmation , but on the contrary , had always been the subject of protestation and complaint , that it might never be in our own power to raise scruples ...
... delegates to congress . As the dis . memberment of the state had never had its con- firmation , but on the contrary , had always been the subject of protestation and complaint , that it might never be in our own power to raise scruples ...
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... delegates ; a want more than sup- plied by the vicinity of their situation to the seat of government , and of course the greater degree of convenience and punctuality with which their members may and will attend in the legislature ...
... delegates ; a want more than sup- plied by the vicinity of their situation to the seat of government , and of course the greater degree of convenience and punctuality with which their members may and will attend in the legislature ...
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... delegates and senators are so chosen , as that the first repre- sent the persons , and the second the property of the state . But with us , wealth and wisdom have equal chance for admission into both houses . We do not therefore derive ...
... delegates and senators are so chosen , as that the first repre- sent the persons , and the second the property of the state . But with us , wealth and wisdom have equal chance for admission into both houses . We do not therefore derive ...
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... delegates from each county , meet- ing together and forming one house , on the plan of the former house of burgesses , to whose places they succeeded . These were at first chosen anew for every particular session . But in March 1775 ...
... delegates from each county , meet- ing together and forming one house , on the plan of the former house of burgesses , to whose places they succeeded . These were at first chosen anew for every particular session . But in March 1775 ...
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Beliebte Passagen
Seite 219 - The whole commerce between master and slave is a perpetual exercise of the most boisterous passions, the most unremitting despotism on the one part, and degrading submissions on the other.
Seite 307 - Almighty power to do; that the impious presumption of legislators and rulers, civil as well as ecclesiastical, who, being themselves but fallible and uninspired men have assumed dominion over the faith of others, setting up their own opinions and modes of thinking as the only true and infallible, and as such endeavoring to impose them on others, hath established and maintained false religions over the greatest part of the world, and through all time ; that to compel a man to furnish contributions...
Seite 219 - The parent storms, the child looks on, catches the lineaments of wrath, puts on the same airs in the circle of smaller slaves, gives a loose to the worst of passions, and thus nursed, educated, and daily exercised in tyranny, cannot but be stamped by it with odious peculiarities.
Seite 223 - The mobs of great cities add just so much to the support of pure government, as sores do to the strength of the human body.
Seite 309 - ... or support any religious worship, place or ministry whatsoever, nor shall be enforced, restrained, molested, or burthened in his body or goods, nor shall otherwise suffer on account of his religious opinions or belief; but that all men shall be free to profess, and by argument to maintain, their opinions in matters of religion, and that the same shall in no wise diminish, enlarge, or affect their civil capacities.
Seite 214 - The legitimate powers of government extend to such acts only as are injurious to others. But it does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods, or no God. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg.
Seite 220 - And can the liberties of a nation be thought secure when we have removed their only firm basis, a conviction in the minds of the people that these liberties are of the gift of God?
Seite 30 - If the view from the top be painful and intolerable, that from below is delightful in an equal extreme. It is impossible for the emotions arising from the sublime to be felt beyond what they are here ; so beautiful an arch, so elevated, so light, and springing as it were up to heaven ! the rapture of the spectator is really indescribable...
Seite 159 - For this reason that convention which passed the ordinance of government, laid its foundation on this basis, that the legislative, executive, and judiciary departments should be separate and distinct, so that no person should exercise the powers of more than one of them at the same time.
Seite 145 - The Treasurer and company of Adventurers and Planters of the City of London for the first colony in Virginia...