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... measures as might be found necessary , to maintain the civil magistrates in a due execution of the laws in Massachusetts - Bay . The assembly of Virginia , in this year , passed resolutions com- plaining of the recent acts of parliament ...
... measures as might be found necessary , to maintain the civil magistrates in a due execution of the laws in Massachusetts - Bay . The assembly of Virginia , in this year , passed resolutions com- plaining of the recent acts of parliament ...
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... measures of Great Britain in the late war , publicly declared , that these Colonies enabled her to triumph over her enemies . Towards the con- clusion of that war , it pleased our sovereign to make a change in his counsels . From that ...
... measures of Great Britain in the late war , publicly declared , that these Colonies enabled her to triumph over her enemies . Towards the con- clusion of that war , it pleased our sovereign to make a change in his counsels . From that ...
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... measures as freemen ought to do , sent over fleets and armies to enforce them . The indignation of the Americans was roused , it is true ; but it was the indignation of a virtuous , loyal 4 AMERICAN BIOGRAPHICAL DICTIONARY .
... measures as freemen ought to do , sent over fleets and armies to enforce them . The indignation of the Americans was roused , it is true ; but it was the indignation of a virtuous , loyal 4 AMERICAN BIOGRAPHICAL DICTIONARY .
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... measure ; we have even pro- ceeded to break off our commercial intercourse with our fellow subjects , as the last ... measures to enforce due obedience to the laws and authority of the supreme legislature . " Soon after , the commer ...
... measure ; we have even pro- ceeded to break off our commercial intercourse with our fellow subjects , as the last ... measures to enforce due obedience to the laws and authority of the supreme legislature . " Soon after , the commer ...
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... measure , or induced us to excite any other nation to war against them . We have not raised armies with ambitious de- signs of separating from Great Britain , and es- tablishing independent states . We fight not for glory or for ...
... measure , or induced us to excite any other nation to war against them . We have not raised armies with ambitious de- signs of separating from Great Britain , and es- tablishing independent states . We fight not for glory or for ...
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Page 339 - Observe good faith and justice towards all Nations. Cultivate peace and harmony with all. Religion and morality enjoin this conduct; and can it be that good policy does not equally enjoin it? It will be worthy of a free> enlightened, and, at no distant period, a great nation, to give to mankind the magnanimous and too novel example of a People always guided by an exalted justice and benevolence.
Page 343 - There can be no greater error than to expect or calculate upon real favors from nation to nation. It is an illusion which experience must cure, which a just pride ought to discard.
Page 336 - There is an opinion that parties in free countries are useful checks upon the administration of the government and serve to keep alive the spirit of liberty.
Page 337 - A just estimate of that love of power, and proneness to abuse it, which predominates in the human heart, is sufficient to satisfy us of the truth of this position.
Page 335 - Liberty itself will find in such a government, with powers properly distributed and adjusted, its surest guardian. It is, indeed, little else than a name, where the government is too feeble to withstand the enterprises of faction, to confine each member of the society within the limits prescribed by the laws, and to maintain all in the secure and tranquil enjoyment of the rights of person and property.
Page 337 - If, in the opinion of the people, the distribution or modification of the constitutional powers be in any particular wrong, let it be corrected by an amendment in the way, which the constitution designates. But let there be no change by usurpation ; for, though this, in one instance, may be the instrument of good, it is the customary weapon by which free governments are destroyed.
Page 334 - However combinations or associations of the above description may now and then answer popular ends, they are likely, in the course of time and things, to become potent engines by which cunning, ambitious, and unprincipled men will be enabled to subvert the Power of the People and to usurp for themselves the reins of Government ; destroying afterwards the very engines which have lifted them to unjust dominion.
Page 336 - Patriotism may look with indulgence, if not with favor, upon the spirit of party. But in those of the popular character, in Governments purely elective, it is a spirit not to be encouraged. From their natural tendency, it is certain there will always be enough of that spirit for every salutary purpose. And, there being constant danger of excess, the effort ought to be, by force of public opinion, to mitigate and assuage it. A fire not to be quenched, it demands a uniform vigilance to prevent its...
Page 340 - ... ambitious, corrupted or deluded citizens, (who devote themselves to the favorite nation,) facility to betray or sacrifice the interests of their own country, without odium, sometimes even with popularity; gilding with the appearances of a virtuous sense of obligation, a commendable deference for public opinion, or a laudable zeal for public good, the base or foolish compliances of ambition, corruption or infatuation.
Page 335 - Let me now take a more comprehensive view, and warn you, in the most solemn manner, against the baneful effects of the spirit of party generally.