Journals of the American Congress: from 1774-1788: In Four Volumes, Volume 1Way and Gideon, 1823 - Law |
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... arms at least once every week . 12. That during the present hostile appearances on the part of Great - Bri- tain , notwithstanding the many insults and oppressions which we most sensi- bly resent , yet , nevertheless , from our ...
... arms at least once every week . 12. That during the present hostile appearances on the part of Great - Bri- tain , notwithstanding the many insults and oppressions which we most sensi- bly resent , yet , nevertheless , from our ...
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... arms , and render yourselves the ridicule and detestation of the world , by becoming tools , in their hands , to assist them in taking that freedom from us , which they have treacherously de- nied to you ; the unavoidable consequence of ...
... arms , and render yourselves the ridicule and detestation of the world , by becoming tools , in their hands , to assist them in taking that freedom from us , which they have treacherously de- nied to you ; the unavoidable consequence of ...
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... arms , damn you , why don't you lay down your arms ? " and that there was not a gun fired till the militia of Lexington were dispersed ; and further saith not . " THOMAS RICE WILLARD . " LEXINGTON , April 25 , 1775 . " Simon Winship ...
... arms , damn you , why don't you lay down your arms ? " and that there was not a gun fired till the militia of Lexington were dispersed ; and further saith not . " THOMAS RICE WILLARD . " LEXINGTON , April 25 , 1775 . " Simon Winship ...
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... arms , several uncon- stitutional and oppressive acts of the British parliament for laying taxes in America ; to enforce the collection of those taxes , and for altering and changing the constitution and internal police of some of these ...
... arms , several uncon- stitutional and oppressive acts of the British parliament for laying taxes in America ; to enforce the collection of those taxes , and for altering and changing the constitution and internal police of some of these ...
Page 82
... dollars and two - thirds of a dollar per month ; to find their own arms and clothes . That the form of the enlistment be in the following words : I have , this day , voluntarily enlisted myself , 82 JOURNALS OF CONGRESS , 1775 .
... dollars and two - thirds of a dollar per month ; to find their own arms and clothes . That the form of the enlistment be in the following words : I have , this day , voluntarily enlisted myself , 82 JOURNALS OF CONGRESS , 1775 .
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Page 30 - Nor can we suppress our astonishment, that a British parliament should ever consent to establish in that country, a religion that has deluged your island in blood, and dispersed impiety, bigotry, persecution, murder, and rebellion through every part of the world.
Page 20 - ... 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 84 - I beg it may be remembered by every gentleman in the room that I this day declare, with the utmost sincerity, I do not think myself equal to the command I am honored with.
Page 84 - As to pay, sir, I beg leave to assure the congress, that as no pecuniary consideration could have tempted me to accept this arduous employment, at the expense of my domestic ease and happiness, I do not wish to make any profit from it. I will keep an exact account of my expenses. Those, I doubt not, they will discharge, and that is all I desire...
Page 139 - Colony, for contributing their Proportion to the common Defence, (such Proportion to be raised under the Authority of the General Court, or General Assembly of such Province or Colony, and disposable by Parliament,) and shall engage to make Provision also, for the support of the Civil Government, and the Administration of Justice...
Page 43 - When the legislative and executive powers are united in the same person, or in the same body of magistrates, there can be no liberty; because apprehensions may arise lest the same monarch or senate should enact tyrannical laws, to execute them in a tyrannical manner.
Page 20 - That by such emigration they by no means forfeited, surrendered, or lost any of those rights, but that they were, and their descendants now are entitled to the exercise and enjoyment of all such of them, as their local and other circumstances enable them to exercise and enjoy.
Page 407 - He has refused for a long time, after such dissolutions, to cause others to be elected; whereby the Legislative Powers, incapable of Annihilation, have returned to the People at large for their exercise; the State remaining in the mean time exposed to all the dangers of invasion from without, and convulsions within.
Page 85 - And you are to observe and follow such orders and directions from time to time as you shall receive from this or a future Congress...
Page 21 - That the respective colonies are entitled to the common law of England, and more especially to the great and inestimable privilege of being tried by their peers of the vicinage, according to the course of that law.