The Political ManualAsher & Adams, 1865 - 290 sider |
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... honor . The foregoing Declaration was , by order of Congress , en- grossed , and signed by the following members : New Hampshire . JOSIAH BARTLETT , WILLIAM WHIPPLE , MATTHEW THORNTON . JOHN HANCOCK . Massachusetts Bay . SAMUEL ADAMS ...
... honor . The foregoing Declaration was , by order of Congress , en- grossed , and signed by the following members : New Hampshire . JOSIAH BARTLETT , WILLIAM WHIPPLE , MATTHEW THORNTON . JOHN HANCOCK . Massachusetts Bay . SAMUEL ADAMS ...
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... honor , trust or profit under the United States ; but the party convicted shall nevertheless be liable and subject to indictment , trial , judgment and punishment , according to law . SEO . 4. The times , places and manner of holding ...
... honor , trust or profit under the United States ; but the party convicted shall nevertheless be liable and subject to indictment , trial , judgment and punishment , according to law . SEO . 4. The times , places and manner of holding ...
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... honor done me , in this appointment , yet I feel great distress , from consciousness that my abilities and military experience may not be equal to the extensive and important trust : How- ever , as the Congress desire it , I will enter ...
... honor done me , in this appointment , yet I feel great distress , from consciousness that my abilities and military experience may not be equal to the extensive and important trust : How- ever , as the Congress desire it , I will enter ...
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... honor of offering my sincere congratulations to Congress , and of pre- senting myself before them , to surrender into their hands the trust committed to me , and to claim the indulgence of retiring from the service of my country ...
... honor of offering my sincere congratulations to Congress , and of pre- senting myself before them , to surrender into their hands the trust committed to me , and to claim the indulgence of retiring from the service of my country ...
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... honored with a call into the service of my country , then on the eve of an arduous struggle for its liberties , the light in which I contemplated my duty required that I should renounce every pecuniary compensation . From this ...
... honored with a call into the service of my country , then on the eve of an arduous struggle for its liberties , the light in which I contemplated my duty required that I should renounce every pecuniary compensation . From this ...
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Side 46 - They serve to organize faction, to give it an artificial and extraordinary force; to put in the place of the delegated will of the nation the will of a party, often a small but artful and enterprising minority of the community; and, according to the alternate triumphs of different parties, to make the public administration the mirror of the ill-concerted and incongruous projects of faction, rather than the organ of consistent and wholesome plans digested by common counsels and modified by mutual...
Side 19 - ... of the said articles of confederation and perpetual union, and all and singular the matters and things therein contained: and we do further solemnly plight and engage the faith of our respective constituents, that they shall abide by the determinations of the United States in congress assembled, on all questions, which by the said confederation are submitted to them; and that the articles thereof shall be inviolably observed by the states we respectively represent, and that the union shall be...
Side 51 - ... nation) facility to betray or sacrifice the interests of their own country without odium, sometimes even with popularity; gilding with the appearances of a virtuous sense of obligation, a commendable deference for public opinion, or a laudable zeal for public good, the base or foolish compliances of ambition, corruption, or infatuation.
Side 97 - ... shall be formed in the said territory; to provide also for the establishment of states, and permanent government therein, and for their admission to a share in the Federal councils on an equal footing with the original states, at as early periods as may be consistent with the general interest...
Side 49 - As a very important source of strength and security, cherish public credit. One method of preserving it is to use it as sparingly as possible ; avoiding occasions of expense by cultivating peace, but remembering also that timely disbursements to prepare for danger, frequently prevent much greater disbursements to repel it...
Side 86 - That the legislative power of the Territory shall extend to all rightful subjects of legislation, consistent with the Constitution of the United States and the provisions of this act ; but no law shall be passed interfering with the primary disposal of the soil; no tax shall be imposed upon the property of the United States ; nor shall the lands or other property of non-residents be taxed higher than the lands or other property of residents.
Side 99 - Pennsylvania, and the said territorial line; provided however, and it is further understood and declared that the boundaries of these three states, shall be subject so far to be altered, that if Congress shall hereafter find it expedient, they shall have authority to form one or two states in that part of the said territory which lies north of an east and west line drawn through the southerly bend or extreme of lake Michigan...
Side 46 - The basis of our political systems is the right of the people to make and to alter their constitutions of government ; but the constitution which at any time exists, till changed by an explicit and authentic act of the whole people, is sacredly obligatory upon all.
Side 46 - However combinations or associations of the above description may now and then answer popular ends, they are likely, in the course of time and things, to become potent engines, by which cunning, ambitious, and unprincipled, men, will be enabled to subvert the power of the people, and to usurp for themselves the reins of government ; destroying afterwards the very engines which have lifted them to unjust dominion.
Side 54 - Relying on its kindness in this, as in other things, and actuated by that fervent love towards it which is so natural to a man who views in it the native soil of himself and his progenitors for several generations, I anticipate, with pleasing expectation, that retreat in which I promise myself to realize, without alloy, the sweet enjoyment of partaking, in the midst of my fellow-citizens, the benign influence of good laws under a free Government — the ever favorite object of my heart — and the...