Richard Bland, Conservator of Self-government in Eighteenth-century Virginia |
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... mind , the Assembly was the supreme law - making body for Virginia . In Bland's maturing mind he no longer accepted the colonies as the subservient domains of an all - powerful King , but as political entities supreme over their own ...
... mind , the Assembly was the supreme law - making body for Virginia . In Bland's maturing mind he no longer accepted the colonies as the subservient domains of an all - powerful King , but as political entities supreme over their own ...
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... mind , therefore , we must remember that there was a subtle but irrepressible force constantly motivating him to seek out those ideas and those doctrines which would help to justify a condition in Virginia which had evolved ...
... mind , therefore , we must remember that there was a subtle but irrepressible force constantly motivating him to seek out those ideas and those doctrines which would help to justify a condition in Virginia which had evolved ...
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... mind was quite compatible with the ultimate goals of the Enlightenment , particularly in his enthusiasm for the dignity of man , stressing that all men have cer- tain natural rights which must be respected by government . Natural rights ...
... mind was quite compatible with the ultimate goals of the Enlightenment , particularly in his enthusiasm for the dignity of man , stressing that all men have cer- tain natural rights which must be respected by government . Natural rights ...
Contents
An Apprentice Burgess | 31 |
The Pistole Fee Dispute ཎྜ | 95 |
The Two Penny Controversy | 123 |
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