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... Wilson , 31 ; -Mr . Payne , Dr. Witherspoon , Vote on Division , 32 ; -Debate on Article XVII , July 30th , 31st , and August 1st - Mr . Chase , 33 - Dr . Franklin , ib.-Dr. Witherspoon , 34 — John Adams , 36 — Dr . Rush , 37 — Mr ...
... Wilson , 31 ; -Mr . Payne , Dr. Witherspoon , Vote on Division , 32 ; -Debate on Article XVII , July 30th , 31st , and August 1st - Mr . Chase , 33 - Dr . Franklin , ib.-Dr. Witherspoon , 34 — John Adams , 36 — Dr . Rush , 37 — Mr ...
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... Wilson , Robert R. Livingston , E. Rutledge , Dickenson and others : That , though they were friends to the measures themselves , and saw the impossibility that we should ever again be united with Great Britain , yet they were against ...
... Wilson , Robert R. Livingston , E. Rutledge , Dickenson and others : That , though they were friends to the measures themselves , and saw the impossibility that we should ever again be united with Great Britain , yet they were against ...
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... That this was proved by the price of labor , the hire of a laborer in the Southern Colonies being from £ 8 to £ 12 , while in the Northern it was generally £ 24 . Mr. Wilson said , that if this amendment should take 30 [ 1776 . DEBATES .
... That this was proved by the price of labor , the hire of a laborer in the Southern Colonies being from £ 8 to £ 12 , while in the Northern it was generally £ 24 . Mr. Wilson said , that if this amendment should take 30 [ 1776 . DEBATES .
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James Madison, Henry Dilworth Gilpin. Mr. Wilson said , that if this amendment should take place , the Southern Colonies would have all the benefit of slaves , whilst the Northern ones would bear the burthen . That slaves increase the ...
James Madison, Henry Dilworth Gilpin. Mr. Wilson said , that if this amendment should take place , the Southern Colonies would have all the benefit of slaves , whilst the Northern ones would bear the burthen . That slaves increase the ...
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... Wilson thought , that taxation should be in pro- portion to wealth , but that representation should accord with the number of freemen . That govern- ment is a collection or the result of the wills of all . That if any government could ...
... Wilson thought , that taxation should be in pro- portion to wealth , but that representation should accord with the number of freemen . That govern- ment is a collection or the result of the wills of all . That if any government could ...
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Página 26 - Determined to keep open a market where MEN should be bought and sold, he has prostituted his negative for suppressing every legislative attempt to prohibit or to restrain this execrable commerce.
Página 23 - 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 378 - 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 23 - He has [suffered] the administration of justice [totally to cease in some of these states] refusing his assent to laws for establishing judiciary powers. He has made [our] judges dependent on his will alone for the tenure of their offices and the amount and payment of their salaries. 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.
Página 28 - At this very time too, they are permitting their chief magistrate to send over not only soldiers of our common blood, but Scotch and foreign mercenaries to invade and destroy us. These facts have given the last stab to agonizing affection, and manly spirit bids us to renounce forever these unfeeling brethren.
Página 26 - And that this assemblage of horrors might want no fact of distinguished die, 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 on whom he also obtruded them: thus paying off former crimes committed against the LIBERTIES of one people with crimes which he urges them to commit against the LIVES of another...
Página 11 - Congress should declare that these United colonies are, and of right ought to be, free and independent states, that they are absolved from all allegiance to the British crown, and that all political connection between them and the state of Great Britain is, and ought to be, totally dissolved; that measures should be immediately taken for procuring the assistance of foreign powers, and a Confederation be formed to bind the colonies more closely together.
Página 23 - ... people. 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...
Página 25 - He has waged cruel war against human nature itself, violating its most sacred rights of life and liberty...