Secession and Constitutional Liberty: In which is Shown the Right of a Nation to Secede from a Compact of Federation and that Such Right is Necessary to Constitutional Liberty and a Surety of Union, Volumen1Neale publishing Company, 1920 |
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... June 7 , 1776 , the delegates from Vir- ginia moved , in obedience to instructions from their constitu- ents , that the Congress should declare that these United Colonies are , and of right ought to be , free and independent . and a ...
... June 7 , 1776 , the delegates from Vir- ginia moved , in obedience to instructions from their constitu- ents , that the Congress should declare that these United Colonies are , and of right ought to be , free and independent . and a ...
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... June they declared , by their resolutions , ' that allegiance was due to the several colonies , that adherence to the King was treason against the colony within which the act was committed ; ' and recommended that laws should be passed ...
... June they declared , by their resolutions , ' that allegiance was due to the several colonies , that adherence to the King was treason against the colony within which the act was committed ; ' and recommended that laws should be passed ...
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... June , 1776 , there was not a colony in which any authority under Great Britain was exercised , except in war- fare ; and when Congress resolved that all allegiance was due to the several colonies ; that treason was punishable in the ...
... June , 1776 , there was not a colony in which any authority under Great Britain was exercised , except in war- fare ; and when Congress resolved that all allegiance was due to the several colonies ; that treason was punishable in the ...
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... June 11 , 1776 , that a committee should be appointed to prepare the form of a confederation to be entered into between the Colonies ; it was determined that the committee should consist of a member from each colony . Upon the report of ...
... June 11 , 1776 , that a committee should be appointed to prepare the form of a confederation to be entered into between the Colonies ; it was determined that the committee should consist of a member from each colony . Upon the report of ...
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... is * North Carolina Delegates to Govr . Caswell , June 14 , 1787 . † John Hancock , in Ratifying Convention of Massachusetts . not affected by the event . All nations are interested 126 SECESSION AND CONSTITUTIONAL LIBERTY.
... is * North Carolina Delegates to Govr . Caswell , June 14 , 1787 . † John Hancock , in Ratifying Convention of Massachusetts . not affected by the event . All nations are interested 126 SECESSION AND CONSTITUTIONAL LIBERTY.
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Página 231 - No State shall lay any imposts or duties, which may interfere with any stipulations in treaties, entered into by the United States in Congress assembled, with any king, prince or state, in pursuance of any treaties already proposed by Congress, to the courts of France and Spain.
Página 37 - Every state shall abide by the determinations of the United States in congress assembled, on all questions which, by this confederation, are submitted to them. And the articles of this confederation shall be inviolably observed by every state ; and the Union shall be perpetual.
Página 396 - ... that all acts of the United States in Congress, made by virtue and in pursuance of the powers hereby, and by the Articles of Confederation, vested in them, and all treaties made and ratified under the authority of the United States, shall be the supreme law of the respective States, so far forth as those acts or treaties shall relate to the said States or their citizens ; and that the Judiciary of the several States shall be bound thereby in their decisions, any thing in the respective laws of...
Página 37 - And the Articles of this confederation shall be inviolably observed by every state, and the union shall be perpetual; nor shall any alteration at any time hereafter be made in any of them; unless such alteration be agreed to in a congress of the united states, and be afterwards confirmed by the legislatures of every state.
Página 157 - States, they have full power to levy war, conclude peace, contract alliances, establish commerce, and do all other acts and things which independent States may of right do.
Página 319 - Mr. SHERMAN was for leaving the clause as it stands. He disapproved of the slave trade ; yet as the States were now possessed of the right to import slaves, as the public good did not require it to be taken from them, and as it was expedient to have as few objections as possible to the proposed scheme of government, he thought it best to leave the matter as we find it.
Página 218 - Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, North-Carolina, South-Carolina and Georgia in the Words following, viz. "Articles of Confederation and perpetual Union between the States of Newhampshire, Massachusetts-bay, Rhodeisland and Providence Plantations, Connecticut, New- York, New-Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, North-Carolina, South-Carolina and Georgia. ARTICLE I. THE stile of this confederacy shall be "The United States of America.
Página 168 - It has been said that they were sovereign, were completely independent, and were connected with each other only by a league. This is true. But when these allied sovereigns converted their league into a government, when they converted their Congress of Ambassadors, deputed to deliberate on their common concerns, and to recommend measures of general utility, into a legislature, empowered to enact laws on the most interesting subjects, the whole character in which the states appear, underwent a change,...
Página 108 - The experience of all ages and nations, I believe, demonstrates that the work done by slaves, though it appears to cost only their maintenance, is in the end the dearest of any.
Página 397 - Judiciary, ought to compose a council of revision with authority to examine every act of the National Legislature before it shall operate, & every act of a particular Legislature before a Negative thereon shall be final; and that the dissent of the said Council shall amount to a rejection, unless the Act of the National Legislature be again passed, or that of a particular Legislature be again negatived by of the members of each branch.