THE CONSTITUTIONS OF THE SEVERAL INDEPENDENT STATES OF AMERICA, THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE, AND THE ARTICLES OF CONFEDERATION BETWEEN THE SAID STATES, TO WHICH ARE NOW ADDED, THE DECLARATION OF RIGHTS, THE NON-IMPORTATION AGREEMENT, AND THE PETITION OF CONGRESS TO THE KING DELIVERED BY MR. PENN: WITH AN APPENDIX, CONTAINING THE TREATIES BETWEEN HIS MOST CHRIISTAN MAJESTY AND THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, THE PROVISIONAL TREATY WITH AMERICA, AND (NEVER BEFORE PUBLISHED) AN AUTHENTIC COPY OF THE TREATY CONCLUDED BETWEEN THEIR HIGH MIGHTINESSES THE STATES-GENERAL, AND THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICAWilliam Jackson |
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Page viii
... British Parliament and Administration , having feverally elected deputies to meet and fit in General Congrefs in the city of Phila- delphia , and thofe deputies fo chofen being affem- bled on the 5th day of September , after fettling ...
... British Parliament and Administration , having feverally elected deputies to meet and fit in General Congrefs in the city of Phila- delphia , and thofe deputies fo chofen being affem- bled on the 5th day of September , after fettling ...
Page ix
... British Parlia- ment , they are entitled to a free and exclufive power of legiflation , in their feveral Provincial Legifla- tures , where their right of reprefentation can alone be preferved , in all cafes of taxation and internal ...
... British Parlia- ment , they are entitled to a free and exclufive power of legiflation , in their feveral Provincial Legifla- tures , where their right of reprefentation can alone be preferved , in all cafes of taxation and internal ...
Page xi
... danger , from fo total a diffimilarity of re- ligion , law , and government , of the neighbouring British Colonies , by the affiftance of whofe blood and and treasure the faid country was conquered from France . AMERICAN STATE PAPERS . xi.
... danger , from fo total a diffimilarity of re- ligion , law , and government , of the neighbouring British Colonies , by the affiftance of whofe blood and and treasure the faid country was conquered from France . AMERICAN STATE PAPERS . xi.
Page xv
... British Miniftry about the year 1763 , evidently calculated for enflaving thefe Colonies , and , with them , the British Empire . In profecution of which fyftem , various Acts of Par- liament have been paffed for raifing a revenue in ...
... British Miniftry about the year 1763 , evidently calculated for enflaving thefe Colonies , and , with them , the British Empire . In profecution of which fyftem , various Acts of Par- liament have been paffed for raifing a revenue in ...
Page xvi
... British fubjects in that wide extended country ; thus by the influence of civil principles and ancient prejudices to difpofe the inhabitants to act with hoftility against the free Proteftant Colonies , whenever a wicked Ministry fhall ...
... British fubjects in that wide extended country ; thus by the influence of civil principles and ancient prejudices to difpofe the inhabitants to act with hoftility against the free Proteftant Colonies , whenever a wicked Ministry fhall ...
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