The American's Own Book: Containing the Declaration of Independence, with the Lives of the Signers : the Constitution of the United States : the Inaugural Addresses and First Annual Messages of All the Presidents from Washington to Pierce : the Farewell Addresses of George Washington and Andrew Jackson : with a Portrait and Life of Each President of the United States, to the Present TimeLeavitt & Allen, 1855 - 496 páginas |
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... 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 ...
... 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 ...
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... become the executioners of their friends and brethren , or to fall themselves by their hands . He has excited domestic insurrections amongst us , and has endeavored to bring on the inhabitants of our frontiers the merciless Indian ...
... become the executioners of their friends and brethren , or to fall themselves by their hands . He has excited domestic insurrections amongst us , and has endeavored to bring on the inhabitants of our frontiers the merciless Indian ...
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... become extensively known , was appointed by Congress , in connexion with Dr. Franklin and Samuel Chase , on a commission to pro- ceed to Canada , to persuade the people of that province to relinquish their allegiance to the crown of ...
... become extensively known , was appointed by Congress , in connexion with Dr. Franklin and Samuel Chase , on a commission to pro- ceed to Canada , to persuade the people of that province to relinquish their allegiance to the crown of ...
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... become vice - queen of the country from which they fled , at the summit of a system which a more immediate ancestor had risked everything to destroy ; or , in the energetic and poetical language of Bishop England , " that in the land ...
... become vice - queen of the country from which they fled , at the summit of a system which a more immediate ancestor had risked everything to destroy ; or , in the energetic and poetical language of Bishop England , " that in the land ...
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... becomes our painful duty to announce to our read- ers the demise of the last surviving signer of the Decla- ration of Independence . Charles Carroll of Carrollton is no more ! He expired at 4 o'clock yesterday morning . Thus , one after ...
... becomes our painful duty to announce to our read- ers the demise of the last surviving signer of the Decla- ration of Independence . Charles Carroll of Carrollton is no more ! He expired at 4 o'clock yesterday morning . Thus , one after ...
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Página 168 - ... with all these blessings, what more is necessary to make us a happy and prosperous people? Still one thing more, fellowcitizens, a wise and frugal government, which shall restrain men from injuring one another, shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned.
Página 115 - ... 2. Immediately after they shall be assembled, in consequence of the first election, they shall be divided, as equally as may be, into three classes. The seats of the senators of the first class, shall be vacated at the expiration of the second year, of the second class...
Página 146 - If in the opinion of the people the distribution or modification of the constitutional powers be in any particular wrong, let it be corrected by an amendment in the way which the Constitution designates. But let there be no change by usurpation, for though this in one instance may be the instrument of good, it is the customary weapon by which free governments are destroyed.
Página 116 - Each house shall keep a journal of its proceedings, and from time to time publish the same, excepting such parts as may, in their judgment, require secrecy ; and the yeas and nays of the members of either house on any question shall, at the desire of one fifth of those present, be entered on the journal.
Página 143 - To the efficacy and permanency of your union, a government for the whole is indispensable. — No alliances, however strict, between the parts, can be an adequate substitute ; they must inevitably experience the infractions and interruptions, which all alliances, in all times, have experienced.
Página 129 - The person having the greatest number of votes as Vice-President shall be the Vice-President, if such number be a majority of the whole number of electors appointed ; and if no person have a majority, then from the two highest numbers on the list the Senate shall choose the Vice-President; a quorum for the purpose shall consist of two thirds of the whole number of Senators, and a majority of the whole number shall be necessary to a choice. 3. But no person constitutionally ineligible to the office...
Página 150 - Against the insidious wiles of foreign influence (I conjure you to believe me, fellow-citizens), the jealousy of a free people ought to be constantly awake; since history and experience prove that foreign influence is one of the most baneful foes of republican government.
Página 151 - ... it is folly in one nation to look for disinterested favors from another; that it must pay with a portion of its independence for whatever it may accept under that character...
Página 145 - The alternate domination of one faction over another, sharpened by the spirit of revenge, natural to party dissension, which in different ages and countries has perpetrated the most horrid enormities, is itself a frightful despotism.
Página 145 - The disorders and miseries which result, gradually incline the minds of men to seek security and repose in the absolute power of an individual ; and, sooner or later, the chief of some prevailing faction, more able or more fortunate than his competitors, turns this disposition to the purposes of his own elevation on the ruins of public liberty.