| David Hastings Mason - 1884 - 170 páginas
...to preside and preserve the connection in due order. This power is lodged in the Parliament, and we are as much dependent on Great Britain as a perfectly free people can be on another. I have looked over every statute relating to these colonies from their first settlement to this time,... | |
| Alpheus Henry Snow - 1902 - 786 páginas
...to preside, and preserve the connection in due order. This power is lodged in the Parliament; and we are as much dependent on Great Britain, as a perfectly free people can be on another. I have looked over every statute relating to these Colonies, from their first settlement to this time;... | |
| Richard B. Couser - 1993 - 384 páginas
...connexion in due order. This power is lodged in the Par10 PRE-CONSTITUTIONAL HISTORY liament: and we are as much dependent on Great Britain as a perfectly free people can be on another."2 Historian Samuel Eliot Morison observes that this remark "shows that Dickinson was moving,... | |
| Sacvan Bercovitch, Cyrus R. K. Patell - 1997 - 846 páginas
...differences of obedience and freedom, power and law. Characteristically, "Letter II" notes that "we are as much dependent on Great Britain. as a perfectly free people can be on another." "The legal authority of Great-Britain " runs "Letter XII," is "like the spear of Telephus, it will... | |
| Robert A. FERGUSON, Robert A Ferguson - 2009 - 374 páginas
...(111:18). Even then, Dickinson refused to contemplate formal rupture between England and her colonies: "we are as much dependent on Great Britain, as a perfectly free people can be on another" (11:8). "[W]here shall we find another Britain to supply our loss?" he asked, deploring the possibility... | |
| Scott J. Hammond, Kevin R. Hardwick, Howard Leslie Lubert - 2007 - 1236 páginas
...to preside, and preserve the connection in due order. This power is lodged in the parliament; and we This will cement the Union, and avoid those Heats and perhaps Convulsions which migh I have looked over every statute relating to these colonies, from their first settlement to this time;... | |
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