Notes on Historical Evidence in Reference to Adverse Theories of the Origin and Nature of the Government of the United States of America |
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... Representatives , in 1774 .. Meeting of Continental Congress , in 1774 .... Object of the Revolutionary Movement . On Voting in Congress , in 1774 ... Association formed in Congress , 1774 ... PAGE 44 44 45 Resolution adopted by ...
... Representatives , in 1774 .. Meeting of Continental Congress , in 1774 .... Object of the Revolutionary Movement . On Voting in Congress , in 1774 ... Association formed in Congress , 1774 ... PAGE 44 44 45 Resolution adopted by ...
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... representatives of these separate sover- eignties . ' * " It was little more than a Congress of ambassadors , authorized to represent separate nations , in matters in which they had a common concern . " " It must be borne in mind that ...
... representatives of these separate sover- eignties . ' * " It was little more than a Congress of ambassadors , authorized to represent separate nations , in matters in which they had a common concern . " " It must be borne in mind that ...
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... representative sovereign Republics , united in a happy distribution of powers , which , reserving to the separate States all the political functions essential to local administration and private justice , bestowed upon the General ...
... representative sovereign Republics , united in a happy distribution of powers , which , reserving to the separate States all the political functions essential to local administration and private justice , bestowed upon the General ...
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... Representatives , was favored by nearly all of the colonial committees ; and it was agreed that the first Congress should meet at the city of Philadelphia , on the fifth day of September , 1774. - Holmes ' Annals , Vol . II , p . 187 ...
... Representatives , was favored by nearly all of the colonial committees ; and it was agreed that the first Congress should meet at the city of Philadelphia , on the fifth day of September , 1774. - Holmes ' Annals , Vol . II , p . 187 ...
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... of their affairs hath been hitherto established , to adopt such government as shall , in the opinion of the representatives of the people , best conduce to the happiness and safety of their consti- UNITED STATES OF AMERICA . 57.
... of their affairs hath been hitherto established , to adopt such government as shall , in the opinion of the representatives of the people , best conduce to the happiness and safety of their consti- UNITED STATES OF AMERICA . 57.
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Page 128 - The better to secure and perpetuate mutual friendship and intercourse among the people of the different States in this Union, the free inhabitants of each of these States, paupers, vagabonds and fugitives from justice excepted shall be entitled to all privileges and immunities of free citizens in the several States; and the people of each State shall have free ingress and regress to and from any other State, and shall enjoy therein all the privileges of trade and commerce, subject to the same duties,...
Page 130 - The United States in Congress assembled shall also have the sole and exclusive right and power of regulating the alloy and value of coin struck by their own authority, or by that of the respective states...
Page 17 - Resolved, that the several States composing the United States of America, are not united on the principle of unlimited submission to their general government; but that by compact under the style and title of a Constitution for the United States and of amendments thereto, they constituted a general government for special purposes, delegated to that government certain definite powers, reserving each State to itself, the residuary mass of right to their own self-government; and that whensoever the general...
Page 128 - The said states hereby severally enter into a firm league of friendship with each other, for their common defence, the security of their Liberties, and their mutual and general welfare, binding themselves to assist each other, against all force offered to, or attacks made upon them, or any of them, on account of religion, sovereignty, trade, or any other pretence whatever.
Page 138 - The Congress shall have Power to dispose of and make all needful Rules and Regulations respecting the Territory or other Property belonging to the United States ; and nothing in this Constitution shall be so construed as to Prejudice any Claims of the United States, or of any particular State. SECTION 4. The United States shall guarantee to every State in this Union a Republican Form of Government, and shall protect each of them against Invasion, and on Application of the Legislature, or of the Executive...
Page 128 - Full faith and credit shall be given in each of these States to the records, acts, and judicial proceedings, of the courts and magistrates of every other State.
Page 84 - In all our deliberations on this subject, we kept steadily in our view that which appears to us the greatest interest of every true American — the consolidation of our Union — in which is involved our prosperity, felicity, safety, perhaps our national existence.
Page 130 - ... of establishing rules for deciding in all cases what captures on land or water shall be legal, and in what manner prizes taken by land or naval forces, in the service of the United States, shall be divided or appropriated ; of granting letters of marque and reprisal in times of peace; appointing courts for the trial of piracies and felonies committed on the high seas...
Page 128 - No state shall be represented in congress by less than two, nor by more than seven members; and no person shall be capable of being a delegate for more than three years in any term of six years; nor shall any person, being a delegate, be capable of holding any office under the United States, for which he, or another for his benefit, receives any salary, fees, or emolument of any kind.
Page 111 - No State shall enter into any Treaty, Alliance, or Confederation . . .," but also that "No State shall, without the Consent of Congress . . . enter into any Agreement or Compact with another State, or with a foreign Power, or engage in War, unless actually invaded, or in such imminent Danger as will not admit of delay.