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... Secretary of State's Reply - Errors in the Minister's Dispatch corrected - Jefferson's Modesty- His Exclusive Origination of the Policy which led to the Acquisition never publicly avowed - Extent and Value of the Acquisition ...
... Secretary of State's Reply - Errors in the Minister's Dispatch corrected - Jefferson's Modesty- His Exclusive Origination of the Policy which led to the Acquisition never publicly avowed - Extent and Value of the Acquisition ...
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... Secretary of State - Jefferson's Comments on Adams ' Appointment -Central College - Miscellaneous Correspondence of 1817 - Views in regard to the Great Canal in New York - On an Amendment of the Constitution sanctioning Internal ...
... Secretary of State - Jefferson's Comments on Adams ' Appointment -Central College - Miscellaneous Correspondence of 1817 - Views in regard to the Great Canal in New York - On an Amendment of the Constitution sanctioning Internal ...
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... Secretary of War , have been duly consi- dered by us . He will now deliver answers , and you are to consider what he says , as if said by myself , and that what we promise we shall faithfully perform . To MARIA JEFFERSON EPPES ...
... Secretary of War , have been duly consi- dered by us . He will now deliver answers , and you are to consider what he says , as if said by myself , and that what we promise we shall faithfully perform . To MARIA JEFFERSON EPPES ...
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... Secretary of State has written to you fully , yet I cannot forbear recurring to it personally , so deep is the impression it makes on my mind . It completely reverses all the political relations of the United States , and will form a ...
... Secretary of State has written to you fully , yet I cannot forbear recurring to it personally , so deep is the impression it makes on my mind . It completely reverses all the political relations of the United States , and will form a ...
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... Secretary of State , to write you this private one , to impress you with the importance we affix to this transaction . " This letter was to be sent by M. de Nemours , who was about to proceed from the United States to France . Not ...
... Secretary of State , to write you this private one , to impress you with the importance we affix to this transaction . " This letter was to be sent by M. de Nemours , who was about to proceed from the United States to France . Not ...
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Seite 611 - The legitimate powers of government extend to such acts only as are injurious to others. But it does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods, or no God. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg.
Seite 608 - 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 a compact under the style and title of a Constitution for the United States...
Seite 68 - ... 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 ; and that, as free and independent States, they have full power to levy war, conclude peace, contract alliances, establish commerce, and do all other acts and things which independent States may of right do.
Seite 640 - But, 1 know also, that laws and institutions must go hand in hand with the progress of the human mind. As that becomes more developed, more enlightened, as new discoveries are made, new truths discovered and manners and opinions change with the change of circumstances, institutions must advance also, and keep pace with the times.
Seite 608 - Government created by this compact was not made the exclusive or final judge of the extent of the powers delegated to itself; since that would have made its discretion, and not the Constitution, the measure of its powers; but that as in all other cases of compact among parties having no common judge, each party has an equal right to judge for itself, as well of infractions, as of the mode and measure of redress.
Seite 659 - The inhabitants of the ceded territory shall be incorporated in the Union of the United States, and admitted as soon as possible, according to the principles of the Federal constitution, to the enjoyment of all the rights, advantages, and immunities, of citizens of the United States ; and, in the mean time, they shall be maintained and protected in the free enjoyment of their liberty, property, and the religion which they profess.
Seite 631 - His mind was great and powerful without being of the very first order; his penetration strong, though not so acute as that of a Newton, Bacon, or Locke; and as far as he saw, no judgment was ever sounder. It was slow in operation, being little aided by invention or imagination, but sure in conclusion.
Seite 124 - I shall need, too, the favor of that Being in whose hands we are, who led our forefathers, as Israel of old, from their native land, and planted them in a country flowing with all the necessaries and comforts of life; who has covered our infancy with his providence, and our riper years with his wisdom and power...
Seite 480 - Great Britain is the nation which can do us the most harm of any one, or all, on earth; and with her on our side we need not fear the whole world.
Seite 640 - Some men look at constitutions with sanctimonious reverence, and deem them, like the ark of the covenant, too sacred to be touched. They ascribe to the men of the preceding age a wisdom more than human, and suppose what they did to be beyond amendment.