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... Governour Hancock ........ Constitu- tion adopted CHAPTER III . · Popular feeling in Massachusetts on the adoption of the con- stitution ........ Letter to General Warren ........ The Federal party become a majority ...
... Governour Hancock ........ Constitu- tion adopted CHAPTER III . · Popular feeling in Massachusetts on the adoption of the con- stitution ........ Letter to General Warren ........ The Federal party become a majority ...
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... Governour Hancock ........ Constitu- tion adopted CHAPTER III . · Popular feeling in Massachusetts on the adoption of the con- stitution ........ Letter to General Warren ........ The Federal party become a majority ...
... Governour Hancock ........ Constitu- tion adopted CHAPTER III . · Popular feeling in Massachusetts on the adoption of the con- stitution ........ Letter to General Warren ........ The Federal party become a majority ...
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... Governour of Massachusetts ........ Conciliatory tem- per of the administration ........ Degree of doctor of laws conferred on him by Harvard College ........ Inauguration of 239 279 296 president Kirkland ....... Reelected governour of ...
... Governour of Massachusetts ........ Conciliatory tem- per of the administration ........ Degree of doctor of laws conferred on him by Harvard College ........ Inauguration of 239 279 296 president Kirkland ....... Reelected governour of ...
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... governour of Massachusetts CHAPTER XI . Elected vice - president of the United States ......... Address of congratulation from his friends in Massachusetts ........ Na- tional and state policy ........ Presides in the senate of the ...
... governour of Massachusetts CHAPTER XI . Elected vice - president of the United States ......... Address of congratulation from his friends in Massachusetts ........ Na- tional and state policy ........ Presides in the senate of the ...
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... Governour Hancock ........ Constitu- tion adopted CHAPTER III . · Popular feeling in Massachusetts on the adoption of the con- stitution ........ Letter to General Warren ........ The Federal party become a majority ...
... Governour Hancock ........ Constitu- tion adopted CHAPTER III . · Popular feeling in Massachusetts on the adoption of the con- stitution ........ Letter to General Warren ........ The Federal party become a majority ...
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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 44 - 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 48 - 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 43 - 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 6 - 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 366 - 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 13 - 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 159 - Such attempts ought to be repelled with a decision which shall convince France, and the world, that we are not a degraded people, humiliated under a colonial spirit of fear and sense of inferiority, fitted to be the miserable instruments of foreign influence ; and regardless of national honor, character, and interest...
Página 117 - 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 42 - 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...