Lives of the Signers to the Declaration of IndependenceT. Mather, 1832 - 460 pages |
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... duties . White sugars were to pay five shillings , and brown sugars one shilling and sixpence , per hundred ; tobacco and indige one penny , and cotton wool a half - penny , per pound . The colonists deemed these acts highly injurious ...
... duties . White sugars were to pay five shillings , and brown sugars one shilling and sixpence , per hundred ; tobacco and indige one penny , and cotton wool a half - penny , per pound . The colonists deemed these acts highly injurious ...
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... duties ; the custom house officers in America were clothed with extraordinary powers ; and the governors , for neglect of watchfulness on these points , were not only to be removed from office , and rendered incapable of the government ...
... duties ; the custom house officers in America were clothed with extraordinary powers ; and the governors , for neglect of watchfulness on these points , were not only to be removed from office , and rendered incapable of the government ...
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... duties and taxes by the parliament of Great Britain , upon a people not represented in the house of commons , is absolutely irreconcilable with their rights . That no man can justly take the property of another , without his consent ...
... duties and taxes by the parliament of Great Britain , upon a people not represented in the house of commons , is absolutely irreconcilable with their rights . That no man can justly take the property of another , without his consent ...
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... duties were imposed not only on most of the written instruments used in judicial and com- mercial proceedings ; but also upon those which were neces- sary in the ordinary transactions of the colonies . Deeds , in- dentures , pamphlets ...
... duties were imposed not only on most of the written instruments used in judicial and com- mercial proceedings ; but also upon those which were neces- sary in the ordinary transactions of the colonies . Deeds , in- dentures , pamphlets ...
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... duties and taxes upon them ; and to consider of a general and humble address to his majesty and the parliament for relief . " The measure thus proposed by Massachusetts , on being communicated to the several colonies , was received with ...
... duties and taxes upon them ; and to consider of a general and humble address to his majesty and the parliament for relief . " The measure thus proposed by Massachusetts , on being communicated to the several colonies , was received with ...
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Page 399 - Equal and exact justice to all men, of whatever state or persuasion, religious or political; peace, commerce, and honest friendship with all nations, entangling alliances with none; the support of the State governments in all their rights, as the most competent administrations for our domestic concerns and the surest bulwarks against anti-republican tendencies; the preservation of the general government in its whole constitutional vigor, as the sheet anchor of our peace at home and safety abroad...
Page 432 - Parliament, they are entitled to a free and exclusive power of legislation in their several Provincial legislatures, where their right of representation can alone be preserved, in all cases of taxation and internal polity, subject only to the negative of their Sovereign, in such manner as has been heretofore used and accustomed...
Page 69 - He has constrained our fellow-citizens, taken captive on the high seas, to bear arms against their country, to become the executioners of their friends and brethren, or to fall themselves by their hands.
Page 66 - DO, in the name and by the authority of the good people of these colonies, solemnly publish and declare, that these united colonies, are, and of right ought to be, free and independent states ; that they are absolved from all allegiance to the British crown, and that all political connexion between them and the state of Great Britain, is and ought to be totally dissolved...
Page 110 - I will be very frank with you. I was the last to consent to the separation; but the separation having been made, and having become inevitable, I have always said, as I say now, that I would be the first to meet the friendship of the United States as an independent power.
Page 399 - ... a well-disciplined militia, our best reliance in peace and for the first moments of war, till regulars may relieve them; the supremacy of the civil over the military authority...
Page 65 - Mr. President — Though I am truly sensible of the high honor done me, in this appointment, yet I feel great distress, from a consciousness that my abilities and military experience may not be equal to the extensive and important trust. However, as the Congress desire it, I will enter upon the momentous duty, and exert every power I possess in their service, and for the support of the glorious cause.
Page 368 - Resolved, That by two royal charters, granted by king James the first, the colonists aforesaid, are declared entitled to all the privileges, liberties, and immunities, of denizens and natural born subjects, to all intents and purposes, as if they had been abiding and born within the realm of England.
Page 41 - In such a cause, your success would be hazardous. America, if she fell, would fall like the strong man. She would embrace the pillars of the state, and pull down the constitution along with her.
Page 129 - Congress it is expedient that on the second Monday in May next a convention of delegates, who shall have been appointed by the several States, be held at Philadelphia for the sole and express purpose of revising the articles of Confederation and reporting to Congress and the several legislatures such alterations and provisions therein as shall, when agreed to in Congress and confirmed by the States, render the federal Constitution adequate to the exigencies of government and the preservation of the...