The state of the nation, in a series of letters to the duke of Bedford1805 |
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... REPRESENTATION , was , in fact , at the time of the accession reduced , was but too clearly seen by those to whom we owe the principles of government to which I allude ; and it required no more than their measure of capacity to discover ...
... REPRESENTATION , was , in fact , at the time of the accession reduced , was but too clearly seen by those to whom we owe the principles of government to which I allude ; and it required no more than their measure of capacity to discover ...
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... representation in their parliaments , which the American people enjoy , it is extremely dif- ficult to imagine , how any statesman of a different de- scription should ever be placed at the head of their af- fairs . Of an opposite ...
... representation in their parliaments , which the American people enjoy , it is extremely dif- ficult to imagine , how any statesman of a different de- scription should ever be placed at the head of their af- fairs . Of an opposite ...
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... representation ; 1 and the system in the year following was still improved upon by the passing of their famous Stamp Act ; 2 when , in consequence of the tempest which thereupon immediately blew from across the Atlantic , these snail ...
... representation ; 1 and the system in the year following was still improved upon by the passing of their famous Stamp Act ; 2 when , in consequence of the tempest which thereupon immediately blew from across the Atlantic , these snail ...
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... representation , and then traduced for becoming the victim of delusions im- posed upon them by a corrupt parliament , in league with a corrupt minister , aided by troops of literary hire- lings and dependents , paid with the people's ...
... representation , and then traduced for becoming the victim of delusions im- posed upon them by a corrupt parliament , in league with a corrupt minister , aided by troops of literary hire- lings and dependents , paid with the people's ...
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... Representation ; which I cannot so well con- trast with the natural effects of a genuine Constitu- tional system of Representation ; as in the words of Mr. Jefferson , who on the 4th of March , 1805 , spoke to the two houses of the ...
... Representation ; which I cannot so well con- trast with the natural effects of a genuine Constitu- tional system of Representation ; as in the words of Mr. Jefferson , who on the 4th of March , 1805 , spoke to the two houses of the ...
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