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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... gives due weight to the committees of correspondence and safety , as provisional governments . He calls them very aptly , " a system of revolutionary machinery . " Much of this committee government was secret and constitutes lost pages ...
... gives due weight to the committees of correspondence and safety , as provisional governments . He calls them very aptly , " a system of revolutionary machinery . " Much of this committee government was secret and constitutes lost pages ...
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... give the assent of this Colony to measures to form foreign alliances and a confederation , provided the power of forming government for the internal regulations of each colony be left to the colonial legislatures . " Here is the germ of ...
... give the assent of this Colony to measures to form foreign alliances and a confederation , provided the power of forming government for the internal regulations of each colony be left to the colonial legislatures . " Here is the germ of ...
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... give in Mr. Jefferson's own language : " They were written in haste , with some uncertainties and in- accuracies about historical facts , which I neglected at the moment , because I thought they could be readily corrected at the ...
... give in Mr. Jefferson's own language : " They were written in haste , with some uncertainties and in- accuracies about historical facts , which I neglected at the moment , because I thought they could be readily corrected at the ...
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... give , ' etc. Today , if Canada , or any of the British colonies give trade preferences to Great Britain , it is because they choose to give them , and not because of any ac- knowledged right of the mother country to demand them , THE ...
... give , ' etc. Today , if Canada , or any of the British colonies give trade preferences to Great Britain , it is because they choose to give them , and not because of any ac- knowledged right of the mother country to demand them , THE ...
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... give him one of the greatest and most com- manding positions ever held by any personage in American history . " I do not think that Mr. Fiske had any basis of historical fact for the statement that Jefferson was not such " a ...
... give him one of the greatest and most com- manding positions ever held by any personage in American history . " I do not think that Mr. Fiske had any basis of historical fact for the statement that Jefferson was not such " a ...
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Page 193 - You can fool some of the people all of the time and all of the people some of the time, but you cannot fool all the people all the time.
Page 259 - I have sworn upon the altar of god, eternal hostility against ] every form of tyranny over the mind of man.
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 250 - Assembly, elected by the people for the ordinary purposes of legislation only, have no power to restrain the acts of succeeding Assemblies, constituted with powers equal to our own, and that therefore to declare this act irrevocable would be of no effect in law; yet we are free to declare, and do declare, that the rights hereby asserted are of the natural rights of mankind, and that if any act shall be hereafter passed to repeal the present or to narrow its operation, such act will be an infringement...
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 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 81 - Yet the hour of emancipation is advancing in the march of time. It will come; and whether brought on by the generous energy of our own minds, or by the bloody process of St. Domingo...
Page 249 - Almighty God hath created the mind free, and manifested his supreme will that free it shall remain by making it altogether insusceptible of restraint; that all attempts to influence it by temporal punishments, or burthens, or by civil incapacitations, tend only to beget habits of hypocrisy and meanness...
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...