The United States Magazine and Democratic Review, Volumen11Langtree and O'Sullivan, 1842 |
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... convention for the purpose of forming a constitution , were made and lost , renewed and re- jected , till at length , early in the last year , they who had so long appealed in vain to the Assembly determined to appeal to it no longer ...
... convention for the purpose of forming a constitution , were made and lost , renewed and re- jected , till at length , early in the last year , they who had so long appealed in vain to the Assembly determined to appeal to it no longer ...
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... convention ; which assembled in Octo- ber , and in the month following pro- posed a constitution extending the right of suffrage to every white male adult citizen of the United States who had resided one year in the State , and ap ...
... convention ; which assembled in Octo- ber , and in the month following pro- posed a constitution extending the right of suffrage to every white male adult citizen of the United States who had resided one year in the State , and ap ...
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... convention , met to delibe- rate on the constitution of the United States , used this remarkable language in the solemn instrument by which she made known her ratification of that constitution : " We declare , That there are certain ...
... convention , met to delibe- rate on the constitution of the United States , used this remarkable language in the solemn instrument by which she made known her ratification of that constitution : " We declare , That there are certain ...
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... convention , which rights do pertain to them and their posterity , as the basis and foundation of govern- ment , Unanimously adopted , June 12 , 1776 . " 1. That all men are , by nature , equally free and independent , and have certain ...
... convention , which rights do pertain to them and their posterity , as the basis and foundation of govern- ment , Unanimously adopted , June 12 , 1776 . " 1. That all men are , by nature , equally free and independent , and have certain ...
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... conventions - and the formation , promulgation , and adoption of the constitution of Rhode Island , eve- rything was conducted in a peaceable and orderly manner . There was no violence , no secresy , no tyranny . If the people's ...
... conventions - and the formation , promulgation , and adoption of the constitution of Rhode Island , eve- rything was conducted in a peaceable and orderly manner . There was no violence , no secresy , no tyranny . If the people's ...
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Página 80 - No : — men, high-minded men, With powers as far above dull brutes endued In forest, brake, or den, As beasts excel cold rocks and brambles rude, — Men who their duties know, But know their rights, and, knowing, dare maintain, Prevent the long-aimed blow, And crush the tyrant while they rend the chain ; These constitute a State; 3 And sovereign law, that State's collected will, O'er thrones and globes elate Sits empress, crowning good, repressing ill.
Página 75 - All power is inherent in the people, and all free governments are founded on their authority and instituted for their peace, safety and happiness.
Página 145 - States, to devise such further provisions as shall appear to them necessary to render the constitution of the federal government adequate to the exigencies of the Union; and to report such an act for that purpose to the United States in Congress assembled, as, when agreed to by them, and afterwards confirmed by the legislatures of every state, will effectually provide for the same.
Página 71 - ... there can be but one supreme power which is the legislative, to which all the rest are and must be subordinate, yet, the legislative being only a fiduciary power to act for certain ends, there remains still in the people a supreme power to remove or alter the legislative when they find the legislative act contrary to the trust reposed in them...
Página 74 - ... of all the various modes and forms of government, that is best, which is capable of producing the greatest degree of happiness and safety, and is most effectually secured against the danger of maladministration; and...
Página 563 - For I thought that the first step towards satisfying several inquiries the mind of man was very apt to run into, was, to take a survey of our own understandings, examine our own powers, and see to what things they were adapted.
Página 245 - Weep no more, woful Shepherds, weep no more, For Lycidas your sorrow is not dead, Sunk though he be beneath the watery floor. So sinks the day-star in the Ocean bed, And yet anon repairs his drooping head, And tricks his beams, and with new-spangled Ore, Flames in the forehead of the morning sky...
Página 343 - 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 including those bound to servitude for a term of years and three fifths of all other persons not comprehended in the foregoing description, except Indians not paying taxes...
Página 337 - ... public service ; to be ineligible to any office established by a particular State, or under the authority of the United States, except those peculiarly belonging to the functions of the first branch, during the term of service, and for the space of after its expiration ; to be incapable of re-election for the space of after the expiration of their term of service, and to be subject to recall.
Página 304 - Tis madness to resist or blame The face of angry heaven's flame ; And if we would speak true, Much to the Man is due Who, from his private gardens, where He lived reserved and austere (As if his highest plot To plant the bergamot) Could by industrious valour climb To ruin the great work of time, And cast the Kingdoms old Into another mould.