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... consisting of 2000 men , successfully defended the post ; and this failure ( which was not the first made by General Wilkinson ) caused the suspension of the unsuccessful leader from command . The Peace of Paris now enabled Great ...
... consisting of 2000 men , successfully defended the post ; and this failure ( which was not the first made by General Wilkinson ) caused the suspension of the unsuccessful leader from command . The Peace of Paris now enabled Great ...
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... consisting of one member from Great Britain , one from the United States and three from foreign countries ( Switzerland , Italy and Brazil ) . This tribunal was to decide upon the amount of the " Alabama Claims " -i . e . , the claims ...
... consisting of one member from Great Britain , one from the United States and three from foreign countries ( Switzerland , Italy and Brazil ) . This tribunal was to decide upon the amount of the " Alabama Claims " -i . e . , the claims ...
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... consists of a single chain , but it is generally composed of several parallel ranges , with valleys between . The White Mountains of New Hampshire , noted for their grand and beautiful scenery , the Green Mountains of Vermont and the ...
... consists of a single chain , but it is generally composed of several parallel ranges , with valleys between . The White Mountains of New Hampshire , noted for their grand and beautiful scenery , the Green Mountains of Vermont and the ...
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... consists of the Coast Mountains , the Sierra Nevada ( Spanish for " Snowy Range , " the word " Nevada " mean- ing literally " white as snow " ) and the Cascade Range . The Coast Moun- tains extend along the Pacific coast from the ...
... consists of the Coast Mountains , the Sierra Nevada ( Spanish for " Snowy Range , " the word " Nevada " mean- ing literally " white as snow " ) and the Cascade Range . The Coast Moun- tains extend along the Pacific coast from the ...
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... consists of a lofty chain of mountains , but more often it is a less elevated ridge . A mythical account has been published of a house so accurately placed upon the line between the Mis- sissippi Valley and the Atlantic Slope that the ...
... consists of a lofty chain of mountains , but more often it is a less elevated ridge . A mythical account has been published of a house so accurately placed upon the line between the Mis- sissippi Valley and the Atlantic Slope that the ...
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Page 528 - To borrow money on the credit of the United States ; To regulate commerce with foreign nations, and among the several States, and with the Indian tribes ; To establish a uniform rule of naturalization, and uniform laws on the subject of bankruptcies, throughout the United States ; To coin money, regulate the value thereof, and of...
Page 533 - The Congress shall have power to dispose of and make all needful rules and regulations respecting the territory or other property belonging to the United States ; and nothing in this Constitution shall be so, construed as to prejudice any claims of the United States, or of any particular state. SECTION 4. The United States shall guarantee to every state in this Union, a republican form of government, and shall protect each of them against invasion, and on application of the legislature, or of the...
Page 530 - No person except a natural-born citizen, or a citizen of the United States, at the time of the adoption of this constitution, shall be eligible to the office of President; neither shall any person be eligible to that office who shall not have attained to the age of thirty-five years, and been fourteen years a resident within the United States.
Page 546 - ... free and independent States; that they are absolved from all allegiance to the British crown, and that all political connection between them and the state of Great Britain is, and ought to be, totally dissolved ; and that, as free and independent States, they have full power to levy war, conclude peace, contract alliances, establish commerce, and do all other acts and things which independent States may of right do.
Page 526 - The Congress shall assemble at least once in every year, and such meeting shall be on the first Monday in December, unless they shall, by law, appoint a different day.
Page 531 - United States, shall be removed from office on impeachment for, and conviction of, treason, bribery, or other high crimes and misdemeanors. ARTICLE III SECTION 1. The judicial power of the United States shall be vested in one Supreme Court, and in such inferior courts as the Congress may from time to time ordain and establish. The judges, both of the Supreme and inferior courts, shall hold their offices during good...
Page 544 - He has refused, for a long time after such dissolutions, to cause others to be elected ; whereby the legislative powers, incapable of annihilation, have returned to the people at large, for their exercise ; the State remaining, in the mean time, exposed to all the dangers of invasions from without, and convulsions within.
Page 540 - cruel war against human nature itself, violating its most sacred ' rights of life and liberty in the persons of a distant people, who ' never offended him, captivating and carrying them into slavery ' in another hemisphere, or to incur miserable death in their ' transportation thither. This piratical warfare, the opprobrium ' of infidel powers, is the warfare of the Christian King of Great ' Britain. Determined to keep open a market where men should * be bought and sold, he has prostituted his negative...
Page 525 - All legislative Powers herein granted shall be vested in a Congress of the United States, which shall consist of a Senate and House of Representatives. SECTION 2. The House of Representatives shall be composed of Members chosen every second Year by the People of the several States, and the Electors in each State shall have the Qualifications requisite for Electors of the most numerous Branch of the State Legislature.
Page 546 - M'Kean. MARYLAND. Samuel Chase, William Paca, Thomas Stone, Charles Carroll, of Carrollton. VIRGINIA. George Wythe, Richard Henry Lee, Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Harrison, Thomas Nelson, Jr., Francis Lightfoot Lee, Carter Braxton. NORTH CAROLINA. William Hooper, Joseph Hewes, John Penn. SOUTH CAROLINA. Edward Rutledge, Thomas Heyward, Jr., Thomas Lynch, Jr., Arthur Middleton. GEORGIA. Button Gwinnett, Lyman Hall, George Walton.