Journals of the American Congress: from 1774-1788: In Four Volumes, Volume 1Way and Gideon, 1823 - Law |
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... council board , by virtue of a mandamus from the King , in conformity to the late act of the British par- liament , entitled , an act for the regulating the government of the Massachu- setts - Bay , have acted in direct violation of the ...
... council board , by virtue of a mandamus from the King , in conformity to the late act of the British par- liament , entitled , an act for the regulating the government of the Massachu- setts - Bay , have acted in direct violation of the ...
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... council in the world , not of their election ? can the intervention of the sea , that divides us , cause disparity in rights , or can any reason be given , why English subjects , who live three thou- sand miles from the royal palace ...
... council in the world , not of their election ? can the intervention of the sea , that divides us , cause disparity in rights , or can any reason be given , why English subjects , who live three thou- sand miles from the royal palace ...
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... council of the nation descended to intermeddle with a dispute about private property . papers , letters and other unauthenticated ex parte evidence were laid before them ; neither the persons who destroyed the tea , nor the people of ...
... council of the nation descended to intermeddle with a dispute about private property . papers , letters and other unauthenticated ex parte evidence were laid before them ; neither the persons who destroyed the tea , nor the people of ...
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... council . " Is the " certainty and lenity of the criminal law of England and its benefits and ad- vantages , " commended in the said statute , and said to " have been sensibly felt by you , " secured to you and your descendants ? No ...
... council . " Is the " certainty and lenity of the criminal law of England and its benefits and ad- vantages , " commended in the said statute , and said to " have been sensibly felt by you , " secured to you and your descendants ? No ...
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... council , is lodged the power of making laws . You have judges , who are to decide every cause affecting your lives , liberty or property . Here is , indeed , an appearance of the several powers being separated and distributed into ...
... council , is lodged the power of making laws . You have judges , who are to decide every cause affecting your lives , liberty or property . Here is , indeed , an appearance of the several powers being separated and distributed into ...
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Page 30 - Nor can we suppress our astonishment, that a British parliament should ever consent to establish in that country, a religion that has deluged your island in blood, and dispersed impiety, bigotry, persecution, murder, and rebellion through every part of the world.
Page 20 - ... in all cases of taxation and internal polity, subject only to the negative of their sovereign, in such manner as has been heretofore used and accustomed...
Page 84 - I beg it may be remembered by every gentleman in the room that I this day declare, with the utmost sincerity, I do not think myself equal to the command I am honored with.
Page 84 - As to pay, sir, I beg leave to assure the congress, that as no pecuniary consideration could have tempted me to accept this arduous employment, at the expense of my domestic ease and happiness, I do not wish to make any profit from it. I will keep an exact account of my expenses. Those, I doubt not, they will discharge, and that is all I desire...
Page 139 - Colony, for contributing their Proportion to the common Defence, (such Proportion to be raised under the Authority of the General Court, or General Assembly of such Province or Colony, and disposable by Parliament,) and shall engage to make Provision also, for the support of the Civil Government, and the Administration of Justice...
Page 43 - When the legislative and executive powers are united in the same person, or in the same body of magistrates, there can be no liberty; because apprehensions may arise lest the same monarch or senate should enact tyrannical laws, to execute them in a tyrannical manner.
Page 20 - That by such emigration they by no means forfeited, surrendered, or lost any of those rights, but that they were, and their descendants now are entitled to the exercise and enjoyment of all such of them, as their local and other circumstances enable them to exercise and enjoy.
Page 407 - He has refused for a long time, after such dissolutions, to cause others to be elected; whereby the Legislative Powers, incapable of Annihilation, have returned to the People at large for their exercise; the State remaining in the mean time exposed to all the dangers of invasion from without, and convulsions within.
Page 85 - And you are to observe and follow such orders and directions from time to time as you shall receive from this or a future Congress...
Page 21 - That the respective colonies are entitled to the common law of England, and more especially to the great and inestimable privilege of being tried by their peers of the vicinage, according to the course of that law.