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In December 1776 , our circumstances being much distressed , it was proposed
in the house of delegates to create a dictator , invested with every power
legislative , executive and judiciary , civil and military , of life and of death , over
our ...
In December 1776 , our circumstances being much distressed , it was proposed
in the house of delegates to create a dictator , invested with every power
legislative , executive and judiciary , civil and military , of life and of death , over
our ...
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The legislature shall consist of two branches , the one to be called the House of
Delegates , the other the Senate , and both together the General Assembly . The
concurrence of both of these , expressed on three several readings , shall be ...
The legislature shall consist of two branches , the one to be called the House of
Delegates , the other the Senate , and both together the General Assembly . The
concurrence of both of these , expressed on three several readings , shall be ...
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... and let each county at the time of electing its delegates , choose senatorial
electors , qualified as themselves are , and four in number for each delegate their
county is entitled to send , who shall convene , and conduct themselves , in such
...
... and let each county at the time of electing its delegates , choose senatorial
electors , qualified as themselves are , and four in number for each delegate their
county is entitled to send , who shall convene , and conduct themselves , in such
...
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... they shall be authorized to issue writs to every county for the election of so
many delegates as they are authorized to ... have provided in the case of
elections of delegates of assembly , mutatis mutandis , and the said delegates
shall meet at ...
... they shall be authorized to issue writs to every county for the election of so
many delegates as they are authorized to ... have provided in the case of
elections of delegates of assembly , mutatis mutandis , and the said delegates
shall meet at ...
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the same forms , as prescribed by the present laws in elections of senators and
delegates of assembly . The said senators and delegates shall constitute the first
general assembly of the new government , and shall specially apply themselves
...
the same forms , as prescribed by the present laws in elections of senators and
delegates of assembly . The said senators and delegates shall constitute the first
general assembly of the new government , and shall specially apply themselves
...
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Página 275 - If there be any among us who would wish to dissolve this Union or to change its republican form, let them stand undisturbed as monuments of the safety with which error of opinion may be tolerated where reason is left free to combat it.
Página 276 - Equal and exact justice to all men, of whatever state or persuasion, religious or political ; peace, commerce, and honest friendship, with all nations — entangling alliances with none ; the support of the State governments in all their rights, as the most competent administrations for our domestic concerns and the surest bulwarks against anti-republican tendencies...
Página 66 - I appeal to any white man to say, if ever he entered Logan's cabin hungry, and he gave him not meat: if ever he came cold and naked, and he clothed him not. During the course of the last long and bloody war, Logan remained idle in his cabin, an advocate for peace. Such was my love for the whites, that my countrymen pointed as they passed, and said, ' Logan is the friend of white men.
Página 234 - ... that to compel a man to furnish contributions of money for the propagation of opinions which he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical; that even the forcing him to support this or that teacher of his own religious persuasion is depriving him of the comfortable liberty of giving his contributions to the particular pastor whose morals he would make his pattern...
Página 170 - The parent storms, the child looks on, catches the lineaments of wrath, puts on the same airs in the circle of smaller slaves, gives a loose to his worst of passions, and thus nursed, educated, and daily exercised in tyranny, cannot but be stamped by it with odious peculiarities.
Página 273 - A rising nation, spread over a wide and fruitful land, traversing all the seas with the rich productions of their industry, engaged in commerce with nations who feel power and forget right...
Página 172 - ... phenomenon of which no age nor nation has furnished an example. It is the mark set on those, who, not looking up to heaven, to their own soil and industry, as does the husbandman, for their subsistence, depend for it on casualties and caprice of customers. Dependence begets subservience and venality, suffocates the germ of virtue, and prepares fit tools for the designs of ambition.
Página 277 - ... freedom of religion; freedom of the press; freedom of person under the protection of the habeas corpus; and trial by juries impartially selected - these principles form the bright constellation which has gone before us, and guided our steps through an age of revolution and reformation.
Página 275 - I believe this, on the contrary, the strongest Government on earth. I believe it the only one where every man, at the call of the law, would fly to the standard of the law, and would meet invasions of the public order as his own personal concern.
Página 239 - There runs not a drop of my blood in the veins of any living creature. This called on me for revenge. I have sought it: I have killed many: I have fully glutted my vengeance: for my country I rejoice at the beams of peace. But do not harbor a thought that mine is the joy of fear.
Información bibliográfica
| Título | Notes on the State of Virginia |
| Autor | Thomas Jefferson |
| Editor | Lilly and Wait, 1832 |
| Procedencia del original | Biblioteca Pública de Nueva York |
| Digitalizado | 12 Feb. 2008 |
| Largo | 280 páginas |
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