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Side ix
... Declaration of Independence ) have been copied directly from the original English - language document to avoid the altered wording that sometimes emerges when a historical document is translated into a foreign language and then ...
... Declaration of Independence ) have been copied directly from the original English - language document to avoid the altered wording that sometimes emerges when a historical document is translated into a foreign language and then ...
Side 2
... Declaration of Independence of the United States . From then on , the only way to settle the conflict was by force . [ Picture ] Franklin ( 1706-90 ) . The 15th child of a poor Boston candlemaker , Franklin educated himself and became ...
... Declaration of Independence of the United States . From then on , the only way to settle the conflict was by force . [ Picture ] Franklin ( 1706-90 ) . The 15th child of a poor Boston candlemaker , Franklin educated himself and became ...
Side 4
... independence , thanks to her central position . It was in Philadelphia that the Declaration of Independence was adopted ( July 4 , 1776 ) , as well as the federal Constitution . Summary • In 1774 , an American Congress published the ...
... independence , thanks to her central position . It was in Philadelphia that the Declaration of Independence was adopted ( July 4 , 1776 ) , as well as the federal Constitution . Summary • In 1774 , an American Congress published the ...
Side 7
... Declaration of Independence was essentially written by Representative Thomas Jeffer- son ( 1743-1826 ) from Virginia . This trained lawyer was guided by the ideas of John Locke . The separation of the States from England was based on ...
... Declaration of Independence was essentially written by Representative Thomas Jeffer- son ( 1743-1826 ) from Virginia . This trained lawyer was guided by the ideas of John Locke . The separation of the States from England was based on ...
Side 8
... Declaration of Independence and especially in the Constitution of Virginia , became a part of the American Constitution . It implemented the separation of powers into a legislative , an executive , and a judicial branch . The state's ...
... Declaration of Independence and especially in the Constitution of Virginia , became a part of the American Constitution . It implemented the separation of powers into a legislative , an executive , and a judicial branch . The state's ...
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Side 29 - Observe good faith and justice toward all nations; cultivate peace and harmony with all. Religion and morality enjoin this conduct, and can it be that good policy does not equally enjoin it...
Side 53 - He is at this time transporting large armies of foreign mercenaries to compleat the works of death, desolation and tyranny, already begun with circumstances of Cruelty & perfidy scarcely paralleled in the most barbarous ages, and totally unworthy the Head of a civilized nation. He has constrained our fellow Citizens taken Captive on the high Seas to bear Arms against their Country, to become the executioners of their friends and Brethren, or to fall themselves by their Hands.
Side 53 - ... free and independent States; that they are absolved from all allegiance to the British crown, and that all political connection between them and the state of Great Britain is, and ought to be, totally dissolved ; and that, as free and independent States, they have full power to levy war, conclude peace, contract alliances, establish commerce, and do all other acts and things which independent States may of right do.
Side 29 - Can it be that Providence has not connected the permanent felicity of a nation with its virtue? The experiment, at least, is recommended by every sentiment which ennobles human nature. Alas! is it rendered impossible by its vices? In the execution of such a plan nothing is more essential than that permanent, inveterate antipathies against particular nations and passionate attachments for others should be excluded, and that in place of them just and...
Side 54 - ... established and maintained false religions over the greatest part of the world, and through all time; that to compel a man to furnish contributions of money for the propagation of opinions which he disbelieves, is sinful and tyrannical...
Side 54 - ... restrain the acts of succeeding assemblies, constituted with powers equal to our own, and that therefore to declare this act to be irrevocable would be of no effect in law, yet we are free to declare, and do declare, that the rights hereby asserted are of the natural rights of mankind, and that if any act shall be hereafter passed to repeal the present, or to narrow its operation, such act will be an infringement of natural right...
Side 53 - For taking away our Charters, abolishing our most valuable Laws, and altering fundamentally the Forms of our Governments: For suspending our own Legislature, and declaring themselves invested with Power to legislate for us in all cases whatsoever. He has abdicated Government here, by declaring us out of his Protection and waging War against us. He has plundered our seas, ravaged our Coasts, burnt our towns, and destroyed the lives of our people. He is at this time transporting large armies of foreign...
Side 54 - I draw my idea of the form of government from a principle in nature, which no art can overturn, viz. that the more simple any thing is, the less liable it is to be disordered, and the easier repaired when disordered; and with this maxim in view, I offer a few remarks on the so much boasted constitution of England.
Side 53 - Society in every state is a blessing, but government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state, an intolerable one...
Side 79 - When you condemn the conduct of the Massachusetts people, you reason from effects, not causes, otherwise you would not wonder at a people, who are every day receiving fresh proofs of a systematic assertion of an arbitrary power, deeply planned to overturn the laws and constitution of their country, and to violate the most essential and valuable rights of mankind, being irritated, and with difficulty restrained from acts of the greatest violence and intemperance.