Civil and Political History of New JerseyP. Keen & E. Chandler, 1848 - 500 páginas |
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... notice , little more was effected than to determine the existence of land in this region , and to notice the insular form of some parts , and the extended appearance of others . This being done , the discoverers hastened to return , in ...
... notice , little more was effected than to determine the existence of land in this region , and to notice the insular form of some parts , and the extended appearance of others . This being done , the discoverers hastened to return , in ...
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... notice , Sebastian Cabot conducted an expedition to this very coast , under the direction of Henry Eighth of England , for the purpose of discovering a passage to the Indies . On this later voyage he proceeded farther to the north than ...
... notice , Sebastian Cabot conducted an expedition to this very coast , under the direction of Henry Eighth of England , for the purpose of discovering a passage to the Indies . On this later voyage he proceeded farther to the north than ...
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... notice ; it is nearly determined by common assent . That a discovery was really made at the time , and made by persons acting under a com- mission from the English crown , are facts that soon became known , and have been generally ...
... notice ; it is nearly determined by common assent . That a discovery was really made at the time , and made by persons acting under a com- mission from the English crown , are facts that soon became known , and have been generally ...
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... notice these movements , both as a part of the history of the time , and also , as they were the foundation of conflicting claims to the country . The Portuguese were the first to follow in the new track . The people of this nation had ...
... notice these movements , both as a part of the history of the time , and also , as they were the foundation of conflicting claims to the country . The Portuguese were the first to follow in the new track . The people of this nation had ...
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... notice . Did the claim of the English continue in force during the whole interval of time between the date of the original discovery , and that of entering , and taking possession ; or was it lost from non - usage and lapse of time ...
... notice . Did the claim of the English continue in force during the whole interval of time between the date of the original discovery , and that of entering , and taking possession ; or was it lost from non - usage and lapse of time ...
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Página 485 - 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 369 - That the only representatives of the people of these colonies are persons chosen therein by themselves, and that no taxes ever have been, or can be constitutionally imposed on them, but by their respective legislatures.
Página 486 - ... and all Treaties made and ratified under the authority of the United States shall be the supreme law of the respective States...
Página 484 - States, to devise such further provisions as shall appear to them necessary to render the constitution of the federal government adequate to the exigencies of the union...
Página 359 - America ; it is agreed, that for the future, the confines between the dominions of His Britannic Majesty, and those of His Most Christian Majesty, in that part of the world, shall be fixed irrevocably by a line drawn along the middle of the river Mississippi, from its source to the river Iberville, and from thence, by a line drawn along the middle of this river, and the lakes Maurepas and Pontchartrain, to the sea...
Página 485 - Resolved, that, in addition to the powers vested in the United States in Congress, by the present existing Articles of Confederation, they be authorized to pass acts for raising a revenue, by levying a duty or duties on all goods or...
Página 129 - Island, and bounded on the east part by the main sea and part by Hudson's River, and hath upon the west Delaware Bay or River, and extendeth southward to the main ocean as far as Cape May, at the mouth of Delaware Bay, and to the northward as far as the northernmost branch of the said Bay or River of Delaware, which is forty-one degrees and forty minutes of latitude...
Página 486 - Resolved that the United States in Congress be authorized to elect a federal Executive to consist of persons, to continue in office for the term of years...
Página 369 - That it is inseparably essential to the freedom of a people, and the undoubted right of Englishmen, that no taxes be imposed on them but with their own consent, given personally or by their representatives.
Página 404 - Persuaded that the salvation of the rights and liberties of America, depends, under God, on the firm union of its inhabitants, in a vigorous prosecution of the measures necessary for its safety, and convinced of the necessity of preventing the anarchy and confusion which attend a dissolution of the powers of government; we, the freemen, freeholders, and inhabitants of the city and county of...