Memoir, Correspondence, and Miscellanies from the Papers of T. Jefferson, 1–2. köideF. Carr & Company, 1829 |
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... expect success . Our minds were circumscribed within narrow limits , by an habi- tual belief that it was our duty to be subordinate to the mother country in all matters of government , to direct all our labors in sub- servience to her ...
... expect success . Our minds were circumscribed within narrow limits , by an habi- tual belief that it was our duty to be subordinate to the mother country in all matters of government , to direct all our labors in sub- servience to her ...
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... expect an alliance with those to whom alone , as yet , we had cast our eyes : That France and Spain had reason to be jealous of that rising power , which would one day certainly strip them of all their Ame- rican possesions : That it ...
... expect an alliance with those to whom alone , as yet , we had cast our eyes : That France and Spain had reason to be jealous of that rising power , which would one day certainly strip them of all their Ame- rican possesions : That it ...
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... expect a lasting confederacy , if it was founded on fair prin- ciples . John Adams advocated the voting in proportion to numbers . He said that we stand here as the representatives of the people : that in some states the people are many ...
... expect a lasting confederacy , if it was founded on fair prin- ciples . John Adams advocated the voting in proportion to numbers . He said that we stand here as the representatives of the people : that in some states the people are many ...
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... expect impar- tial decision between the General government , of which they are themselves so eminent a part , and an individual state , from which they have nothing to hope or fear ? We have seen , too , that , con- trary to all correct ...
... expect impar- tial decision between the General government , of which they are themselves so eminent a part , and an individual state , from which they have nothing to hope or fear ? We have seen , too , that , con- trary to all correct ...
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... expect , when he reflects that he is no more than the chief officer of the people , appointed by the laws , and circumscribed with definite powers , to assist in working the great machine of government , erected for their use , and ...
... expect , when he reflects that he is no more than the chief officer of the people , appointed by the laws , and circumscribed with definite powers , to assist in working the great machine of government , erected for their use , and ...
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Page 17 - He has endeavored to prevent the population of these States; for that purpose obstructing the Laws for Naturalization of Foreigners; refusing to pass others to encourage their migrations hither, and raising the conditions of new Appropriations of Lands. He has obstructed the Administration of Justice, by refusing his Assent to Laws for establishing Judiciary powers. He has made Judges dependent on his Will alone, for the tenure of their offices, and the amount and payment of their salaries. He has...
Page 437 - I never submitted the whole system of my opinions to the creed of any party of men whatever, in religion, in philosophy, in politics or in anything else, where I was capable of thinking for myself. Such an addiction, is the last degradation of a free and moral agent . If I could not go to heaven but with a party, I would not go there at all.
Page 18 - 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 19 - He has waged cruel war against human nature itself, violating its most sacred rights of life and liberty in the persons of a distant people who never offended him, captivating and carrying them into slavery in another hemisphere, or to incur miserable death in their transportation thither.
Page 426 - ... but if any officer shall break his parole, or any other prisoner shall escape from the limits of his cantonment, after they shall have been designated to him, such individual officer or other prisoner shall forfeit so much of the benefit of this article as provides for his enlargement on parole or cantonment.
Page 272 - First the omission of a bill of rights providing clearly and without the aid of sophisms for freedom of religion, freedom of the press, protection against standing armies, restriction against monopolies, the eternal and unremitting force of the habeas corpus laws, and trials by jury in all matters of fact triable by the laws of the land and not by the law of Nations.
Page 85 - I hold it that a little rebellion now and then is a good thing, and as necessary in the political world as storms in the physical.
Page 425 - If War should arise between the two Contracting Parties, the merchants of either country then residing in the other, shall be allowed to remain nine months to collect their debts and settle their affairs, and may depart freely, carrying off all their effects, without molestation or hindrance...
Page 274 - The late rebellion in Massachusetts has given more alarm, than I think it should have done. Calculate that one rebellion in...
Page 378 - ... or to others of the same nation. But if they be not sent back within two months, to be counted from the day of their arrest, they shall be set at liberty, and shall be no more arrested for the same cause ARTICLE THIRTIETH.