 | Thomas Jefferson - 1829 - 1102 pages
...administer all the matters of common interest to the whole county. These wards, called townships in New England, are the vital principle of their governments,...federal republic, for all concerns foreign and federal ; & that of the State, for what relates to our own citizens exclusively ; 3. the county republics,... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson - United States - 1829 - 662 pages
...administer all the matters of common interest to the whole county. These wards, called townships in New England, are the vital principle of their governments,...federal republic, for all concerns foreign and federal ; 6. that of the State, for what relates to our own citizens exclusively ; 3. the county republics,... | |
 | Virginia. Constitutional Convention - Constitutional conventions - 1830 - 932 pages
...administer all the matters of common interest to the whole county. These wards, called townships in New England, are the vital principle of their Governments,...preservation. We should thus marshal our Government into, first, the general Federal Republic, for all concerns foreign and Federal ; second, thai of the State,... | |
 | John Howard Hinton - United States - 1850 - 1008 pages
...Jefferson says, — " The townships of New England are the vital principles of their governments, and hare proved themselves the wisest invention ever devised...of self-government, and for its preservation."— Correspondence, vol. iv. p. 297. citizens, or against citizens of other states, or aliens. In these... | |
 | Henry Stephens Randall - Presidents - 1858 - 760 pages
...administer all the matters of common interest to the whole county. These wards, colled townships in New England, are the vital principle of their governments,...the perfect exercise of self-government, and for its preservation.1 We should thus marshal our Government into, 1. The general Federal republic, for all... | |
 | Henry Stephens Randall - 1858 - 764 pages
...administer all tho matters of common interest to the whole county. These wards, called townships in Xew England, are the vital principle of their governments,...the perfect exercise of self-government, and for its preservation.1 We should thus marshal our Government into, 1. The general Federal republic, for all... | |
 | Henry Stephens Randall - United States - 1858 - 766 pages
...the matters of common interest to the whole county. These wards, called townships in New England, arc the vital principle of their governments, and have...the perfect exercise of self-government, and for its preservation.1 We should thus marshal our Government into, 1. The general Federal republic, for all... | |
 | Henry Stephens Randall - Presidents - 1858 - 916 pages
...called townships in v England, are the vital principle of their governments, and have proved them•es the wisest invention ever devised by the wit of man for the perfect exercise of -government, and for its preservation.1 We should thus marshal our Government >, 1. The general Federal... | |
 | 1902 - 334 pages
...natural counterpart in the General Court and the town meeting, which Thomas Jefferson rightly called "the wisest invention ever devised by the wit of man for the perfect exercise of self-government and its preservation." Yet this liberty was not anarchy unchecked, nor a Utopia that overlooked the selfish... | |
 | Edward Alfred Pollard - African Americans - 1868 - 226 pages
...proposing certain changes in the Constitution of Virginia he wrote : " These wards, called townships in New England, are the vital principle of their governments,...exercise of self-government and for its preservation. We shall thus marshal our Government into, 1. The general Federal republic, for all concerns foreign and... | |
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These wards, called townships in New England, are the vital principle of their governments, and have proved themselves the wisest invention ever devised by the wit of man for the perfect exercise of self-government, and for its preservation. 
