 | Thomas Jefferson - 1829 - 1102 pages
...England, are the vital principle of their governments, and have proved themselves the wisest invention ever devised by the wit of man for the perfect exercise of self-government, and for its preservation. We should thus marshal our government into, 1. the general federal republic, for all concerns foreign... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson - United States - 1829 - 550 pages
...England, are the vital principle of their governments, and have proved themselves the wisest invention ever devised by the wit of man for the perfect exercise of self-government, and for its preservation. We should thus marshal our government into, 1. the general federal republic, for all concerns foreign... | |
 | Virginia. Constitutional Convention - Constitutional conventions - 1830 - 932 pages
...England, are the vital principle of their Governments, and have proved themselves the wisest invention ever devised by the wit of man for the perfect exercise of self-government, and for its preservation. We should thus marshal our Government into, first, the general Federal Republic, for all concerns foreign... | |
 | John Howard Hinton - United States - 1850 - 1008 pages
...England are the vital principles of their governments, and hare proved themselves the wisest invention ever devised by the wit of man for the perfect exercise...of self-government, and for its preservation."— Correspondence, vol. iv. p. 297. citizens, or against citizens of other states, or aliens. In these... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson - United States - 1854 - 676 pages
...England, are the vital principle of their governments, and have proved themselves the wisest invention ever devised by the wit of man for the perfect exercise of self-government, and for its preservation. We should thus marshal our government into, 1, the general federal republic, for all concerns foreign... | |
 | Henry Stephens Randall - Presidents - 1858 - 760 pages
...England, are the vital principle of their governments, and have proved themselves the wisest invention ever devised by the wit of man for the perfect exercise of self-government, and for its preservation.1 We should thus marshal our Government into, 1. The general Federal republic, for all... | |
 | Henry Stephens Randall - Presidents - 1858 - 916 pages
...England, are the vital principle of their governments, and have proved them•es the wisest invention ever devised by the wit of man for the perfect exercise of -government, and for its preservation.1 We should thus marshal our Government >, 1. The general Federal... | |
 | 1902 - 334 pages
...the General Court and the town meeting, which Thomas Jefferson rightly called "the wisest invention ever devised by the wit of man for the perfect exercise of self-government and its preservation." Yet this liberty was not anarchy unchecked, nor a Utopia that overlooked the selfish... | |
 | Edward Alfred Pollard - African Americans - 1868 - 232 pages
...England, are the vital principle of their governments, and have proved themselves the wisest invention ever devised by the wit of man for the perfect exercise of self-government and for its preservation. We shall thus marshal our Government into, 1. The general Federal republic, for all concerns foreign... | |
 | Edward Alfred Pollard - African Americans - 1868 - 220 pages
...England, are the vital principle of their governments, and have proved themselves the wisest invention ever devised by the wit of man for the perfect exercise of self-government and for its preservation. We shall thus marshal our Government into, 1. The general Federal republic, for all concerns foreign... | |
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These wards, called townships in New England, are the vital principle of their governments, and have proved themselves the wisest invention ever devised by the wit of man for the perfect exercise of self-government and for its preservation. 
