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Page 15
... election by his constituents . Two or three years of com- parative quiet in the rising dispute with the mother country followed the appointment of Lord North as prime minister in 1770 , a period in which , as Jef- ferson complained ...
... election by his constituents . Two or three years of com- parative quiet in the rising dispute with the mother country followed the appointment of Lord North as prime minister in 1770 , a period in which , as Jef- ferson complained ...
Page 20
... election of officers ; public buildings were designated as barracks for the King's troops ; and the port of Boston was closed by British war - ships , except for " fuel or victual . . . for the necessary use and sus- tenance of the ...
... election of officers ; public buildings were designated as barracks for the King's troops ; and the port of Boston was closed by British war - ships , except for " fuel or victual . . . for the necessary use and sus- tenance of the ...
Page 39
... election to the first place on the committee chosen June 10 to draft a declaration of independence would scarcely be the reward be- stowed on a prodigal returning after four and a half months of inglorious ease . At any rate , it is a ...
... election to the first place on the committee chosen June 10 to draft a declaration of independence would scarcely be the reward be- stowed on a prodigal returning after four and a half months of inglorious ease . At any rate , it is a ...
Page 99
... election to Congress by the Virginia legislature in December . To his kinsman , Edmund Randolph , he wrote from Monticello : " I have re- tired to my farm , my family , and my books , from which I think nothing will evermore separate me ...
... election to Congress by the Virginia legislature in December . To his kinsman , Edmund Randolph , he wrote from Monticello : " I have re- tired to my farm , my family , and my books , from which I think nothing will evermore separate me ...
Page 127
... election of the House of Representatives by popular vote , the equal representation of the States in the Senate , the voting in both Houses by indi- viduals and not by States , the veto power of the President ( though he would like to ...
... election of the House of Representatives by popular vote , the equal representation of the States in the Senate , the voting in both Houses by indi- viduals and not by States , the veto power of the President ( though he would like to ...
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