The Life and Times of Thomas Wilson Dorr: With Outlines of the Political History of Rhode IslandThe author, 1859 - 368 páginas |
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The Life and Times of Thomas Wilson Dorr: With Outlines of the Political ... Dan King Visualização integral - 1859 |
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The Life and Times of Thomas Wilson Dorr: With Outlines of the Political ... Dan King Visualização integral - 1859 |
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adjourned adopted aforesaid American annual election appointed armed Assembly British cause charter government charter troops Chepatchet citizens city of Providence civil clerks colony committee convention declared defendant discharged district Dorr's duty East Greenwich electors enacted ernment exercise force freeholders freemen Glocester Governor and Company Governor Dorr Governor King hereafter hereby House of Representatives hundred imprisonment inhabitants Island and Providence June June 28 jury justice legislature liberty lieutenant governor majority martial law ment military muskets Narragansett Bay Newport North Kingstown number of votes oath offence passed Pawtucket people's constitution person political present president principles prison proceedings Providence Plantations qualified resolution Resolved Rhode Island Samuel W SAMUEL WARD KING secretary Senate session sovereignty stitution successors suffrage suffrage party thereof Thomas W Thomas Wilson Dorr tion town and ward treason trial United votes given ward meetings whole number
Passagens conhecidas
Página 43 - The basis of our political systems is the right of the people to make and to alter their constitutions of government.
Página 263 - That there are certain natural rights, of which men, when they form a social compact, cannot deprive or divest their posterity; among which are the enjoyment of life and liberty, with the means of acquiring, possessing and protecting property, and pursuing and obtaining happiness and safety.
Página 322 - ... support any religious worship, place, or Ministry whatsoever, nor shall be enforced, restrained, molested, or burthened in his body or goods, nor shall otherwise suffer on account of his religious opinions or belief ; but that all men shall be free to profess, and by argument to maintain, their opinions in matters of religion, and that the same shall in no wise diminish, enlarge, or affect their civil capacities.
Página 275 - ... freely and fully have and enjoy his and their own judgments and consciences, in matters of religious concernments...
Página 298 - A majority of each house shall constitute a quorum to do business; but a smaller number may adjourn from day to day, and may compel the attendance of absent members in such manner, and under such penalties, as each house may provide.
Página 288 - ... belonging, or in any wise appertaining : To have and to hold the same...
Página 292 - Every subject of the commonwealth ought to find a certain remedy, by having recourse to the laws for all injuries or wrongs which he may receive in his person, property, or character. He ought to obtain right and justice freely, and without being obliged to purchase it; completely, and without any denial; promptly, and without delay; conformably to the laws.
Página 286 - And further, of our more ample grace, certain knowledge, and mere motion, we have given and granted, and by these presents, for us, our heirs and successors, do give and grant, unto the said Governor and Company of the English Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, in the Narragansett.
Página 14 - We whose names are hereunder, desirous to inhabit in the town of Providence, do promise to subject ourselves in active or passive obedience to all such orders or agreements as shall be made for public good of the body, in an orderly way, by the major assent of the present inhabitants, masters of families, incorporated together into a town fellowship, and such others whom they shall admit unto them, only in civil things.
Página 295 - That no man shall be compelled to frequent or support any religious worship, place or ministry whatsoever, nor shall be enforced, restrained, molested or burthened, in his body or goods, nor shall otherwise suffer on account of his religious opinions or belief; but that all men shall be free to profess, and by argument to maintain, their opinions in matters of religion, and that the same shall in no wise diminish, enlarge or affect their civil capacities.
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Brotherly Love: Murder and the Politics of Prejudice in Nineteenth-century ... Charles G. Hoffmann,Tess Hoffmann Pré-visualização indisponível - 1998 |