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... called Pennsylvania The polity is self - government of societies . Did the American provinces revolutionize in vain CHAPTER IV . - SOCIETIES ARE SOVEreign . 282 283 283 284 285 285 286 286 288 288 289 290 290 290 291 291 292 292 292 292 ...
... called Pennsylvania The polity is self - government of societies . Did the American provinces revolutionize in vain CHAPTER IV . - SOCIETIES ARE SOVEreign . 282 283 283 284 285 285 286 286 288 288 289 290 290 290 291 291 292 292 292 292 ...
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... called states- men and expounders of the day venture to assert that the government is “ absolutely supreme , " and holds the states in " allegiance . ” - The Doctrine of the Perverters . For immediate and direct con- trast , let us here ...
... called states- men and expounders of the day venture to assert that the government is “ absolutely supreme , " and holds the states in " allegiance . ” - The Doctrine of the Perverters . For immediate and direct con- trast , let us here ...
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... called him — in our once free country , and , at will , declare unhappy Louisianians or New - Yorkers to be banditti , and leave them to the tender mercies of some future Sheridan , or other bold dragoon.1 - - Will our Peace be of ...
... called him — in our once free country , and , at will , declare unhappy Louisianians or New - Yorkers to be banditti , and leave them to the tender mercies of some future Sheridan , or other bold dragoon.1 - - Will our Peace be of ...
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... called governments , these being personally composed of the citizens and subjects of the states . Hence a governmental right to control suffrage is absurd . As Montesquieu says : " The laws estab- lishing the right of suffrage " are ...
... called governments , these being personally composed of the citizens and subjects of the states . Hence a governmental right to control suffrage is absurd . As Montesquieu says : " The laws estab- lishing the right of suffrage " are ...
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... called the state , which is a repub- lic . Such state is a moral or political person , as contradistinguished from a natural one . For mutual protection , and general government , it joins other such political persons in federal compact ...
... called the state , which is a repub- lic . Such state is a moral or political person , as contradistinguished from a natural one . For mutual protection , and general government , it joins other such political persons in federal compact ...
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Page 568 - The inhabitants of the ceded territory shall be incorporated in the Union of the United States and admitted as soon as possible according to the principles of the federal Constitution to the enjoyment of all the rights, advantages and immunities of citizens of the United States, and in the mean time they shall be maintained and protected in the free enjoyment of their liberty, property and the Religion which they profess.
Page 529 - Congress it is expedient that on the second Monday in May next a Convention of delegates who shall have been appointed by the several States be held at Philadelphia for the sole and express purpose of revising the Articles of Confederation and reporting to Congress and the several legislatures such alterations and provisions therein as shall when agreed to in Congress and confirmed by the States render the Federal Constitution adequate to the exigencies of Government and the preservation of the Union.
Page 553 - A Declaration of Rights made by the Representatives of the good people of VIRGINIA, assembled in full and free Convention, which rights do pertain to them and their posterity as the basis and foundation of government. 1. That all men are by nature equally free and independent, and have certain inherent rights...
Page 555 - is a social compact by which the whole people covenants with each citizen, and each citizen with the whole people, that all shall be governed by certain laws for the common good.
Page 235 - While then every part of our country thus feels an immediate and particular interest in union, all the parts combined cannot fail to find in the united mass of means and efforts greater strength, greater resource, proportionably greater security from external danger, a less frequent interruption of their peace by foreign nations; and, what is of inestimable value! they must derive from union an exemption from those...
Page 551 - 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.
Page 557 - Every subject of the Commonwealth ought to find a certain remedy, by having recourse to the laws, for all injuries or wrongs which he may receive in his person, property or character. He ought to obtain right and justice freely, and without being obliged to purchase it; completely, and without any denial; promptly, and without delay; conformably to the laws.
Page 235 - Profoundly penetrated with this idea, I shall carry it with me to my grave, as a strong incitement to unceasing vows that heaven may continue to you the choicest tokens of its beneficence; that your union and brotherly affection may be perpetual; that the free Constitution, which is the work of your hands, may be sacredly maintained...
Page 533 - We the people of the States of New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, Connecticut, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Georgia, do ordain, declare, and establish the following Constitution for the government of ourselves and our posterity.
Page 556 - God, and for the support and maintenance of public Protestant teachers of piety, religion, and morality, in all cases where such provision shall not be made voluntarily.