The New Empire: Reflections Upon Its Origin and Constitution and Its Relation to the Great RepublicHart & Company, 1891 - 608 Seiten |
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... Freedom , while the course before her is yet so ill charted , to intrust so many of her treasures to one vessel ? The present year appears to be an extremely appro- priate moment for reviewing the position which Canada , * Bouchette's ...
... Freedom , while the course before her is yet so ill charted , to intrust so many of her treasures to one vessel ? The present year appears to be an extremely appro- priate moment for reviewing the position which Canada , * Bouchette's ...
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... Freedom of speech , freedom of the Press , the right of petition , and open courts - no people can possess these , as the natives of India do , without being substantially a free people . Grievances that can at all times be made known ...
... Freedom of speech , freedom of the Press , the right of petition , and open courts - no people can possess these , as the natives of India do , without being substantially a free people . Grievances that can at all times be made known ...
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... freedom : and Freedom is the real foundation of the law of England . but a Feudalism itself was temporary aberration , imposed partly by conquest and partly by the necessities of a warlike and anarchic age . As the day for Feudalism ...
... freedom : and Freedom is the real foundation of the law of England . but a Feudalism itself was temporary aberration , imposed partly by conquest and partly by the necessities of a warlike and anarchic age . As the day for Feudalism ...
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... freedom . In possession of wealth and power , Liberty has been vulgarized into fashion . Men are but imperfectly reasoning beings , and success is generally their major premiss . In the minds of the masses , the event of a lawsuit , a ...
... freedom . In possession of wealth and power , Liberty has been vulgarized into fashion . Men are but imperfectly reasoning beings , and success is generally their major premiss . In the minds of the masses , the event of a lawsuit , a ...
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... freedom . Nevertheless there are still those who more or less mildly deplore the ultimate form of the American Revolution , as an avoidable calamity . The Revolution was not inevitable on the ground so commonly taught , especially to ...
... freedom . Nevertheless there are still those who more or less mildly deplore the ultimate form of the American Revolution , as an avoidable calamity . The Revolution was not inevitable on the ground so commonly taught , especially to ...
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Seite 271 - The navigation of the River St. Lawrence, ascending and descending from the 45th parallel of north latitude, where it ceases to form the boundary between the two countries, from, to, and into the sea, shall forever remain free and open for the purposes of commerce to the citizens of the United States, subject to any laws and regulations of Great Britain or of the Dominion of Canada, not inconsistent with such privilege of free navigation.
Seite 160 - For abolishing the free System of English Laws in a neighbouring Province, establishing therein an Arbitrary government, and enlarging its Boundaries so as to render it at once an example and fit instrument for introducing the same absolute rule into these Colonies...
Seite 272 - Majesty shall enjoy the use of the St. Clair Flats canal on terms of equality with the inhabitants of the United States, and further engages to urge upon the State governments to secure to the subjects of her Britannic Majesty the use of the several State canals connected with the navigation of the lakes or rivers traversed by or contiguous to the boundary line between the possessions of the high contracting parties, on terms of equality with the inhabitants of the United States.
Seite 159 - Also the act passed in the same session for establishing the Roman Catholic religion, in the province of Quebec, abolishing the equitable system of English laws, and erecting a tyranny there, to the great danger, (from so total a dissimilarity of religion, law and government) of the neighbouring British colonies, by the assistance of whose blood and treasure the said country was conquered from France.
Seite 22 - English liberty and of all free government, is a right in the people to participate in their legislative council: and as the English colonists are not represented, and from their local and other circumstances cannot properly be represented in the British parliament, they are entitled to a free and exclusive power of legislation in their several provincial legislatures, where their right of representation can alone be preserved, in all cases of taxation and internal polity subject only to the negative...
Seite 21 - That by such emigration they by no means forfeited, surrendered, or lost any of those rights, but that they were, and their descendants now are, entitled to the exercise and enjoyment of all such of them, as their local and other circumstances enable them to exercise and enjoy.
Seite 239 - America, to forget all past misunderstandings and differences that have unhappily interrupted the good correspondence and friendship which they mutually wish to restore, and to establish such a beneficial and satisfactory intercourse between the two countries, upon the ground of reciprocal advantages and mutual convenience, as may promote and secure to both perpetual peace and harmony...
Seite 271 - St. Lawrence, and other canals in the Dominion on terms of equality with the inhabitants of the Dominion ; and the Government of the United States engages that the subjects of Her Britannic Majesty shall enjoy the use of the St.
Seite 22 - That the foundation of English liberty and of all free government, is, a right in the people to participate in their legislative council...