The Story of the Declaration of IndependenceU.S. Government Printing Office, 1926 - 20 Seiten |
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abolishing active ACTUALLY DECLARED American colonists appointed to prepare Assembly Assent to Laws Benjamin Franklin Boston Britain British ministers BUREAU OF EDUCATION candid world cause Charles Townshend chosen President Committee of Safety Committees of Correspondence compel the submission Concord consent Constitution Declaration of Independence Delaware delegates died July Doctor Franklin duty elected Governor enforce England engrossed force foreign mercenaries forming foreign Alliances Gage George Washington House of Burgesses House of Commons Jefferson wrote John Adams JOHN HANCOCK June Lee's Legislation legislatures Lexington Massachusetts measures ment militiamen mother country negotiated the treaty opposition organization parent stem Parliament Patrick Henry patriots petitions Philadelphia Powers proclamation refused his Assent refused to pass repeated injuries Representatives resolution respecting independency resolutions were adopted resolves Richard Henry Lee sachusetts Samuel Adams Second Continental Congress sent ships shrine soldiers Stamp Act Thomas Jefferson tion unanimously chosen United Colonies Virginia House vote York
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Seite 17 - He has endeavoured 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.
Seite 8 - That these United Colonies are, and of right ought to be, free and independent States, that they are absolved from all allegiance to the British Crown, and that all political connection between them and the State of Great Britain is, and ought to be, totally dissolved. That it is expedient forthwith to take the most effectual measures for forming foreign Alliances. That a plan of confederation be prepared and transmitted to the respective Colonies for their consideration and approbation.
Seite 17 - He has refused for a long time, after such dissolutions, to cause others to be elected; whereby the Legislative Powers, incapable of Annihilation, have returned to the People at large for their exercise; the State remaining in the mean time exposed to all the dangers of invasion from without, and convulsions within.
Seite 14 - If taxes are laid upon us in any shape without our having a legal representation where they are laid, are we not reduced from the character of free subjects to the miserable state of tributary slaves...
Seite 9 - This committee consisted of Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, Roger Sherman and Robert R. Livingston.
Seite 8 - It appearing in the course of these debates, that the colonies of New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland, and South Carolina were not yet matured for falling from the parent stem, but that they were fast advancing to that state...
Seite 7 - Oliver Cromwell, captain general " and commander in chief of all the forces raised, " or to be raised, within this commonwealth, do " hereby summon and require you personally to be
Seite 8 - That the delegates appointed to represent this colony in general Congress, be instructed to propose to that respectable body, TO DECLARE THE UNITED COLONIES FREE AND INDEPENDENT STATES, absolved from all allegiance to or dependence upon the crown or Parliament of Great Britain...
Seite 13 - This, however, I will say for Mr. Adams, that he supported the Declaration with zeal and ability, fighting fearlessly for every word of it. As to myself, I thought it a duty to be, on that occasion, a passive auditor of the opinions of others, more impartial judges than I could be, of its merits or demerits.
Seite 16 - In Congress, July 4, 1776 The Unanimous Declaration of the Thirteen United States of America When in the Course of human events it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them...