Thomas Jefferson, His Permanent Influence on American InstitutionsLooks at the influence of Thomas Jefferson as a Virginian, a revolutionist, a diplomat, and as President of the United States. |
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... territorial and polit- ical interests and anxieties . Not knowing what all this has made pregnant in the womb of the future , which of us can assert that any particular feature of our system now deemed funda- mental , characteristic ...
... territorial and polit- ical interests and anxieties . Not knowing what all this has made pregnant in the womb of the future , which of us can assert that any particular feature of our system now deemed funda- mental , characteristic ...
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... territory put to the inconvenience and expense of getting their mail from a place a dozen miles or more away . The Federal Court was open , with Federal judge , marshal , grand juries and petty juries , and the federal law could have ...
... territory put to the inconvenience and expense of getting their mail from a place a dozen miles or more away . The Federal Court was open , with Federal judge , marshal , grand juries and petty juries , and the federal law could have ...
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... territory , and how invariably it wandered out to the utmost confines of the earth , wherever there were men with rights to assert and with duties to perform . His was , in the broadest and finest sense , a world - democ- racy . He ...
... territory , and how invariably it wandered out to the utmost confines of the earth , wherever there were men with rights to assert and with duties to perform . His was , in the broadest and finest sense , a world - democ- racy . He ...
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... Territory , the precedent for our territorial system of government ; his bills , which became law , for the simplification of the court system of Virginia ; his act prohibiting the importation of slaves into Virginia ; his amendment for ...
... Territory , the precedent for our territorial system of government ; his bills , which became law , for the simplification of the court system of Virginia ; his act prohibiting the importation of slaves into Virginia ; his amendment for ...
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... Territory as was later done , but from all the territories of the United States , " ceded or to be ceded , " had lost his motion by the vote of a single State , and when the matter is fully analyzed , really by the vote of a single ...
... Territory as was later done , but from all the territories of the United States , " ceded or to be ceded , " had lost his motion by the vote of a single State , and when the matter is fully analyzed , really by the vote of a single ...
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Page 250 - That no man shall be compelled to frequent or support any religious worship, place or ministry whatsoever, nor shall be enforced, restrained, molested or burthened, in his body or goods, nor shall otherwise suffer on account of his religious opinions or belief; but that all men shall be free to profess, and by argument to maintain, their opinions in matters of religion, and that the same shall in no wise diminish, enlarge or affect their civil capacities.
Page 259 - I have sworn upon the altar of god, eternal hostility against ] every form of tyranny over the mind of man.
Page 288 - In the Parliament of man, the Federation of the world. There the common sense of most shall hold a fretful realm in awe, And the kindly earth shall slumber, lapt in universal law.
Page 81 - And can the liberties of a nation be thought secure when we have removed their only firm basis, a conviction in the minds of the people that these liberties are of the gift of God ? That they are not to be violated but with His wrath?
Page 209 - The inhabitants of the ceded territory shall be incorporated in the Union of the United States, and admitted as soon as possible, according to the principles of the Federal Constitution, to the enjoyment of all the rights, advantages, and immunities of citizens of the United States; and in the meantime they shall be maintained and protected in the free enjoyment of their liberty, property, and the religion which they profess.
Page 218 - The civil rights and political status of the native inhabitants of the territories hereby ceded to the United States shall be determined by the Congress.
Page 23 - Though a silent member in Congress, he was so prompt, frank, explicit, and decisive upon committees and in conversation, not even Samuel Adams was more so, that he soon seized upon my heart...
Page 136 - Our first and fundamental maxim should be, never to entangle ourselves in the broils of Europe. Our second, never to suffer Europe to intermeddle with cis-atlantic affairs.
Page 205 - Not so can it ever be in the hands of France. The impetuosity of her temper, the energy and restlessness of her character...