History of the Origin, Formation, and Adoption of the Constitution of the United States: With Notices of Its Principal Framers, Volume 1Harper, 1854 - Constitutional history |
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... independence of the States had been declared , had become necessary to the con- tinued existence of the Confederacy . It is equally certain , that , without the preservation of the Union , a condition of things must at once have ensued ...
... independence of the States had been declared , had become necessary to the con- tinued existence of the Confederacy . It is equally certain , that , without the preservation of the Union , a condition of things must at once have ensued ...
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... ponderating power . He will see a people who had at first achieved nothing but independence , and had contributed nothing to the cause of free government but the example of their determination to enjoy it , PREFACE . xiii.
... ponderating power . He will see a people who had at first achieved nothing but independence , and had contributed nothing to the cause of free government but the example of their determination to enjoy it , PREFACE . xiii.
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... INDEPENDEnce . - PREPARATIONS FOR A NEW GOVERNMENT . FORMATION OF THE CONTINENTAL ARMY . Independence proposed Committee to prepare the Declaration - 99999 49 50 35 35 35 36 37 38 39 39 40 · 41 Instructions to the Delegates 51 ...
... INDEPENDEnce . - PREPARATIONS FOR A NEW GOVERNMENT . FORMATION OF THE CONTINENTAL ARMY . Independence proposed Committee to prepare the Declaration - 99999 49 50 35 35 35 36 37 38 39 39 40 · 41 Instructions to the Delegates 51 ...
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... Independence CHAPTER IV . JULY , 1776 - NOVEMBER , 1777 . ― 8888888 80 80 81 CONSEQUENCES OF THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE . - REORGANI- ZATION OF THE CONTINENTAL ARMY . - FLIGHT OF THE CONGRESS FROM PHILADELPHIA . - PLAN OF THE ...
... Independence CHAPTER IV . JULY , 1776 - NOVEMBER , 1777 . ― 8888888 80 80 81 CONSEQUENCES OF THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE . - REORGANI- ZATION OF THE CONTINENTAL ARMY . - FLIGHT OF THE CONGRESS FROM PHILADELPHIA . - PLAN OF THE ...
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... Independence of America Services in Congress . Appointed Assistant Financier Elected to the Federal Convention His Character CHAPTER XII . KING . · 427 427 , 428 428 428-431 433 , 434 434 , 435 435-437 437 437 437 , 438 440 441 442 443 ...
... Independence of America Services in Congress . Appointed Assistant Financier Elected to the Federal Convention His Character CHAPTER XII . KING . · 427 427 , 428 428 428-431 433 , 434 434 , 435 435-437 437 437 437 , 438 440 441 442 443 ...
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Page 510 - The better to secure and perpetuate mutual friendship and intercourse among the people of the different States in this Union, the free inhabitants of each of these States, paupers, vagabonds, and fugitives from justice excepted, shall be entitled to all privileges and immunities of free citizens in the several States; and the people of each State shall have free ingress and regress to and from any other State, and shall enjoy therein all the privileges of trade and commerce, subject to the same duties,...
Page 207 - STATES, and to consist of one delegate from each state; and to appoint such other committees and civil officers as may be necessary for managing the general affairs of the United States under their...
Page 305 - And, in the just preservation of rights and property, it is understood and declared that no law ought ever to be made or have force in the said Territory that shall, in any manner whatever, interfere with or affect private contracts, or engagements, bona fide, and without fraud previously formed.
Page 213 - Congress be authorized to make such requisitions in proportion to the whole number of white and other free citizens and inhabitants, of every age, sex, and condition...
Page 308 - And whenever any of the said States shall have sixty thousand free inhabitants therein such State shall be admitted by its delegates into the Congress of the United States on an equal footing with the original states in all respects whatever, and shall be at liberty to form a permanent constitution and State government.
Page 512 - States shall be divided or appropriated ; of granting letters of marque and reprisal in times of peace, appointing courts for the trial of piracies and felonies committed on the high seas, and establishing courts for receiving and determining finally appeals in all cases of captures, provided that no member of Congress shall be appointed a judge of any of the said courts.
Page 512 - When land forces are raised by any state for the common defence, all officers of or under the rank of colonel shall be appointed by the legislature of each state respectively by whom such forces shall be raised, or in such manner as such state shall direct, and all vacancies shall be filled up by the state which first made the appointment. ARTICLE VIII. All charges of war and all other expenses that shall be incurred for the common defence or general welfare, and allowed by the United States in congress...
Page 511 - No State shall engage in any war without the consent of the United States in Congress assembled, unless such State be actually invaded by enemies, or shall have received certain advice of a resolution being formed by some nation of Indians to invade such State, and the danger is so imminent as not to admit of a delay, till the United States in Congress assembled can be consulted...
Page 147 - ... for the defence and welfare of the United States or any of them, nor emit bills, nor borrow money on the credit of the United States...
Page 514 - State should raise a greater number of men than the quota thereof, such extra number shall be raised, officered, clothed, armed, and equipped in the same manner as the quota of such State, unless the legislature of such State shall judge that such extra number cannot be safely spared out of the same, in which case they shall raise, officer, clothe, arm, and equip as many of such extra number as they judge can be safely spared.