A Complete History of the United States of America: Embracing the Whole Period from the Discovery of North America, Down to the Year 1820 ...The author, 1821 |
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... officer of the crown , and bis pay was to be derived from the penalties , and forfeitures , arising from his adjudications ; and these were to follow the complaint , unless the defendant could prove his innocence . This was the closing ...
... officer of the crown , and bis pay was to be derived from the penalties , and forfeitures , arising from his adjudications ; and these were to follow the complaint , unless the defendant could prove his innocence . This was the closing ...
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... officers , under the usual custom - house oaths . These duties were not fa- miliar to men of their elevated stations and feelings , and great irregularities ensued , and no redress could be obtain- ed , short of the admiralty courts of ...
... officers , under the usual custom - house oaths . These duties were not fa- miliar to men of their elevated stations and feelings , and great irregularities ensued , and no redress could be obtain- ed , short of the admiralty courts of ...
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... officers , stationed in the colonies of America , to quarter their soldiers upon the people in pri- vate houses . This bill , which embraced the most oppres- sive and abandoned principle in the whole catalogue of military despotism ...
... officers , stationed in the colonies of America , to quarter their soldiers upon the people in pri- vate houses . This bill , which embraced the most oppres- sive and abandoned principle in the whole catalogue of military despotism ...
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... officers , and friends of the British gov- ernment , and measures , in America , in the most daring , and outrageous manner . These commenced by hanging their persons in effigy , upon the limbs of an ancient elm , near to the most ...
... officers , and friends of the British gov- ernment , and measures , in America , in the most daring , and outrageous manner . These commenced by hanging their persons in effigy , upon the limbs of an ancient elm , near to the most ...
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... officers of the crown , and on the 26th , they reached the house of the chief justice , Hutchinson ; and such was the rage and fury of the mob , that they exceeded on these two days , the vi- olence of the first , and some of the best ...
... officers of the crown , and on the 26th , they reached the house of the chief justice , Hutchinson ; and such was the rage and fury of the mob , that they exceeded on these two days , the vi- olence of the first , and some of the best ...
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Página 234 - ... defend their claim or cause, the court shall nevertheless proceed to pronounce sentence, or judgment, which shall in like manner be final and decisive, the judgment or sentence and other proceedings being in either case transmitted to congress, and lodged among the acts of congress for the security of the parties concerned : provided that every commissioner, before he sits in judgment, shall take an oath to be administered by one of the judges of the supreme or superior court of the state, where...
Página 237 - The Congress of the United States shall have power to adjourn to any time within the year and to any place within the United States, so that no* period of adjournment be for a longer duration than the space of six months, and shall publish the...
Página 230 - Full faith and credit shall be given in each of these States to the records, acts, and judicial proceedings, of the courts and magistrates of every other State.
Página 233 - ... whenever the legislative or executive authority or lawful agent of any state in controversy with another shall present a petition to Congress, stating the matter in question, and praying for a hearing, notice thereof shall be given by order of Congress to the legislative or executive authority of the other state in controversy, and a day assigned for the appearance of the parties, by their lawful agents, who shall then be directed to appoint by joint consent commissioners or judges, to constitute...
Página 237 - States or any of them, nor emit bills, nor borrow money on the credit of the United States, nor appropriate money, nor agree upon the number of vessels of war to be built or purchased, or the number of land or sea forces to be raised, nor appoint a commander in chief of the army or navy, unless nine states assent to the same...
Página 233 - Article, of sending and receiving ambassadors; entering into treaties and alliances, provided that no treaty of commerce shall be made, whereby the legislative power of the respective States shall be restrained from imposing such imposts and duties on foreigners, as their own people are subjected to, or from prohibiting the exportation or importation of any species of goods or commodities whatsoever...
Página 238 - Canada acceding to this confederation, and joining in the measures of the United States, shall be admitted into and entitled to all the advantages of this union. But no other colony shall be admitted into the same, unless such admission be agreed to by nine states.
Página 231 - United States in Congress assembled, for the defence of such State, or its trade ; nor shall any body of forces be kept up by any State in time of peace, except such number only as, in the judgment of the United States in Congress assembled, shall be deemed requisite to garrison the forts necessary for the defence of such State : but every State shall always keep up a well regulated and disciplined militia, sufficiently armed and accoutred...
Página 230 - No state shall be represented in congress by less than two, nor by more than seven members; and no person shall be capable of being a delegate for more than three years in any term of six years; nor shall any person, being a delegate, be capable of holding any office under the United States, for which he, or another for his benefit, receives any salary, fees, or emolument of any kind.
Página 229 - Union, the free inhabitants of each of these States, paupers, vagabonds, and fugitives from justice excepted, shall be entitled to all privileges and immunities of free citizens in the several States; and the people of each State shall have free ingress and regress to and from any other State, and shall enjoy therein all the privileges of trade and commerce, subject to the same duties, impositions and restrictions as the inhabitants thereof respectively...