The Writings of Thomas Jefferson: Miscellaneous: 4. Parliamentary manual; 5. The anas; 6. Miscellaneous papersTaylor & Maury, 1854 |
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... livres , to be furnished on account of our debt to France at the request of the executive of that country , which sum is to be laid out in provisions within the United States , to be sent to France . Shall the money be furnished ? The ...
... livres , to be furnished on account of our debt to France at the request of the executive of that country , which sum is to be laid out in provisions within the United States , to be sent to France . Shall the money be furnished ? The ...
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... livres desired , Hamilton , in speaking on the subject , used this expression , " When Mr. Genet arrives , whether we shall receive him or not , will then be a question for discussion , " which expression I did not recollect till E ...
... livres desired , Hamilton , in speaking on the subject , used this expression , " When Mr. Genet arrives , whether we shall receive him or not , will then be a question for discussion , " which expression I did not recollect till E ...
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... of them , for our own use . When these posts are given up , if ever they are , we shall be able to furnish France with skins and furs , to the amount of two millions of livres , in exchange MISCELLANEOUS PAPERS . 231.
... of them , for our own use . When these posts are given up , if ever they are , we shall be able to furnish France with skins and furs , to the amount of two millions of livres , in exchange MISCELLANEOUS PAPERS . 231.
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Thomas Jefferson. the amount of two millions of livres , in exchange for her mer- chandise ; but at present , these articles are to be counted as nothing . 2. Potash . An experiment is making whether this can be brought here . We hope it ...
Thomas Jefferson. the amount of two millions of livres , in exchange for her mer- chandise ; but at present , these articles are to be counted as nothing . 2. Potash . An experiment is making whether this can be brought here . We hope it ...
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... livres a hogshead , and would receive the whole revenue , and pay it into the treasury , at short hand . M. de Reyneval entered particularly into this part of the conversation , and explained to the Count , more in detail , the ...
... livres a hogshead , and would receive the whole revenue , and pay it into the treasury , at short hand . M. de Reyneval entered particularly into this part of the conversation , and explained to the Count , more in detail , the ...
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Seite 464 - 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 government assumes undelegated powers, its acts are unauthoritative, void, and of no force...
Seite 487 - that the laws of the several States, except where the Constitution, treaties, or statutes of the United States shall otherwise require or provide, shall be regarded as rules of decision in trials at common law in the courts of the United States, in cases where they apply.
Seite 471 - That they will view this as seizing the rights of the States and consolidating them in the hands of the General Government with...
Seite 466 - States," which does abridge the freedom of the press, is not law, but is altogether void and of no effect. IV. Resolved, that alien friends are under the jurisdiction and protection of the laws of the State wherein they are ; that no power over them has been delegated to the United States, nor prohibited to the individual States distinct from their power over citizens ; and it being true as a general principle, and one of the amendments to the Constitution having also declared that " the powers not...
Seite 8 - Nor may their lands or goods be distrained: 7th. Nor their persons assaulted, or characters traduced. And the period of time covered by privilege, before and after the session, with the practice of short prorogations under the connivance of the Crown, amounts in fact to a perpetual protection against the course of justice. In one instance, indeed, it has been relaxed by the 10 G.
Seite 470 - ... in questions of power, then, let no more be heard of confidence in man, but bind him down from mischief by the chains of the Constitution.
Seite 465 - 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 466 - States or to the people ; that thus was manifested their determination to retain to themselves the right of judging how far the licentiousness of speech and of the press may be abridged without lessening their useful freedom, and how far those abuses which cannot be separated from their use should be tolerated rather than the use be destroyed...
Seite 55 - ... successively on the longest. Otherwise it would be in the power of the mover, by inserting originally a short time, to preclude the possibility of a longer; for till the short time is struck out, you cannot...
Seite 280 - ... to the enemies of the other, shall be deemed contraband so as to induce confiscation or condemnation and a loss of property to individuals. Nevertheless it shall be lawful to stop such vessels and articles, and to detain them for such length of time as the captors may think...