The Life of Elbridge Gerry: From the close of the American RevolutionWells and Lilly, 1829 |
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... effects of the measure . Farewell , R. KING . The articles of confederation , which feeble as they were , yet formed the only cord of connexion between the states , did not seem to authorize a general convention of delegates without the ...
... effects of the measure . Farewell , R. KING . The articles of confederation , which feeble as they were , yet formed the only cord of connexion between the states , did not seem to authorize a general convention of delegates without the ...
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... effect . If the authority conferred by congress or by the several states on the convention at Philadelphia , extended only to the proposing of repairs in the old edifice , it is fortunate they were bold enough to disregard the strict ...
... effect . If the authority conferred by congress or by the several states on the convention at Philadelphia , extended only to the proposing of repairs in the old edifice , it is fortunate they were bold enough to disregard the strict ...
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... effect politics should have in private life entirely coincide with my own . I felt it a misfortune that I should be compelled by such judgment as God had given me to differ so greatly from a man , whose judgment I so highly venerate ...
... effect politics should have in private life entirely coincide with my own . I felt it a misfortune that I should be compelled by such judgment as God had given me to differ so greatly from a man , whose judgment I so highly venerate ...
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... variety of form , and what argument was unable to effect , satire , lampoon and scurrility were exhaust- ed to accomplish . Some arts were resorted to , which were supposed to be justified by the great- ness 70 LIFE OF ELBRIDGE GERRY .
... variety of form , and what argument was unable to effect , satire , lampoon and scurrility were exhaust- ed to accomplish . Some arts were resorted to , which were supposed to be justified by the great- ness 70 LIFE OF ELBRIDGE GERRY .
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... effect . His high character and consideration in the community , the reserve , which circumstances had seemed to im- pose upon him , the calmness with which he came into the assembly , the effort , which in defiance of disease , he ...
... effect . His high character and consideration in the community , the reserve , which circumstances had seemed to im- pose upon him , the calmness with which he came into the assembly , the effort , which in defiance of disease , he ...
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The Life of Elbridge Gerry: From the close of the American Revolution James Trecothick Austin Visualização integral - 1829 |
The Life of Elbridge Gerry: From the close of the American Revolution James Trecothick Austin Visualização integral - 1829 |
The Life of Elbridge Gerry: From the close of the American Revolution James Trecothick Austin Visualização integral - 1829 |
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Página 9 - Philadelphia for the sole and express purpose of revising the articles of Confederation and reporting to Congress and the several legislatures such alterations and provisions therein as shall, when agreed to in Congress and confirmed by the States, render the federal Constitution adequate to the exigencies of government and the preservation of the Union.
Página 62 - In offering to you, my countrymen, these counsels of an old and affectionate friend I dare not hope they will make the strong and lasting impression I could wish — that they will control the usual current of the passions or prevent our nation from running the course which has hitherto marked the destiny of nations.
Página 66 - That the said report with the resolutions and letter accompanying the same be transmitted to the several legislatures in order to be submitted to a convention of delegates chosen in each state by the people thereof in conformity to the resolves of the convention made and provided in that case.
Página 61 - Sensible of this momentous truth, you have improved upon your first essay, by the adoption of a Constitution of Government, better calculated than your former for an intimate Union, and for the efficacious management of your common concerns.
Página 24 - Congress be authorized to make such requisitions in proportion to the whole number of white and other free citizens and inhabitants of every age, sex, and condition, including those bound to servitude for a term of years, and three-fifths of all other persons not comprehended in the foregoing description, except Indians not paying taxes...
Página 384 - States are engaged, appeals for its support to every motive that can animate an uncorrupted and enlightened people; to the love of country; to the pride of liberty; to an emulation of the glorious founders of their independence, by a successful vindication of its violated attributes; to the gratitude and sympathy which demand security from the most degrading wrongs of a class of citizens, who have proved themselves so worthy of the protection of their country, by their heroic zeal in its defence...
Página 31 - No tax or duty shall be laid by the Legislature on articles exported from any State ; nor on the migration or importation of such persons as the several States shall think proper to admit ; nor shall such migration or importation be prohibited.
Página 135 - When we take notice that theirs is the workshop to which we go for all we want ; that with them centre either immediately or ultimately all the labors of our hands and lands; that to them belongs either openly or secretly the great mass of our navigation; that even the factorage of their affairs here, is kept to themselves by factitious citizenships; that these foreign and false citizens now constitute the great body of what are called our merchants, fill our seaports, are planted in every little...
Página 60 - purge it of its corruption and give to its popular branch equality of representation and it would become an impracticable government; as it stands at present, with all its supposed defects, it is the most perfect...
Página 41 - As the convention was called for "the sole and express purpose of revising the articles of confederation, and reporting to congress, and the several legislatures, such alterations and provisions as shall render the federal constitution adequate to the exigencies of government, and the preservation of the union...