The Writings of Thomas Jefferson: Autobiography, with appendix. CorrespondenceTaylor & Maury, 1853 |
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... object , they were enjoined by them to do nothing which should impede that object . They , therefore , thought themselves not justifiable in voting on either side , and asked leave to withdraw from the question ; which was given them ...
... object , they were enjoined by them to do nothing which should impede that object . They , therefore , thought themselves not justifiable in voting on either side , and asked leave to withdraw from the question ; which was given them ...
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... object , evinces a design to re- duce them under absolute despotism , it is their right , it is their duty to throw off such government , and to provide new guards for their future security . Such has been the patient sufferance of ...
... object , evinces a design to re- duce them under absolute despotism , it is their right , it is their duty to throw off such government , and to provide new guards for their future security . Such has been the patient sufferance of ...
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... of which have in direct object the butfall Lacing over these states to prove this let facts be pledge a farth establishment of an absolute tyranny submitted to a candid world , [ for the truth of which yet unsullied by falschood ]
... of which have in direct object the butfall Lacing over these states to prove this let facts be pledge a farth establishment of an absolute tyranny submitted to a candid world , [ for the truth of which yet unsullied by falschood ]
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... objects with Massa chusetts ; Jersey , Delaware , and Maryland , with Pennsylvania . Dr. Rush took notice , that the decay of the liberties of the Dutch republic proceeded from three causes . 1. The perfect unanimity requisite on all ...
... objects with Massa chusetts ; Jersey , Delaware , and Maryland , with Pennsylvania . Dr. Rush took notice , that the decay of the liberties of the Dutch republic proceeded from three causes . 1. The perfect unanimity requisite on all ...
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... objects of its care are all the individuals of the States . It is strange that an- nexing the name of " State " to ten thousand men , should give them an equal right with forty thousand . This must be the ef- fect of magic , not of ...
... objects of its care are all the individuals of the States . It is strange that an- nexing the name of " State " to ten thousand men , should give them an equal right with forty thousand . This must be the ef- fect of magic , not of ...
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Página 21 - 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 meantime, exposed to all the dangers of invasion from without, and convulsions within.
Página 23 - He has waged cruel war against human nature itself, violating its most sacred rights of life and liberty in the persons of a distant people who never offended him, captivating and carrying them into slavery in another hemisphere, or to incur miserable death in their transportation thither.
Página 183 - Are not my days few? cease then, And let me alone, that I may take comfort a little, Before I go whence I shall not return, Even to the land of darkness and the shadow of death; A land of darkness, as darkness itself; And of the shadow of death, without any order, And where the light is as darkness.
Página 27 - All charges of war, and all other expenses that shall be incurred for the common defense or general welfare, and allowed by the United States in Congress assembled, shall be defrayed out of a common treasury...
Página 24 - ... he is now exciting those very people to rise in arms among us, and to purchase that liberty of which he has deprived them, by murdering the people...
Página 45 - Almighty God hath created the mind free; that all attempts to influence it by temporal punishments or burthens, or by civil incapacitations, tend only to beget habits of hypocrisy and meanness, and are a departure from the plan of the Holy author of our religion...
Página 19 - A Declaration by the Representatives of the United States of America, in General Congress assembled. When, in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth the separate and equal station to which the laws of nature and of nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that...
Página 25 - We, therefore, the representatives of the United States of America, in General Congress assembled, do, in the name, and by the authority of the good people of these states, reject and renounce all allegiance and subjection to the kings of Great Britain, and all others who may hereafter claim by, through, or under them; we utterly dissolve all political connection which may heretofore have subsisted beticeen us and the people or Parliament of Great Britain; and finally, we do assert...
Página 142 - Still less let it be proposed that our properties, within our own territories, shall be taxed or regulated by any power on earth, but our own. The God who gave us life, gave us liberty at the same time : the hand of force may destroy, but cannot disjoin them.
Página 22 - He has erected a multitude of new offices, [by a self-assumed power] and sent hither swarms of new officers to harass our people and eat out their substance. He has kept among us in times of peace standing armies [and ships of war] without the consent of our legislatures.