Memoir, Correspondence, and Miscellanies: From the Papers of Thomas Jefferson, Volumen1F. Carr, and Company, 1820 |
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... court , at which I continued until the Revolution shut up the courts of justice . : * * For a sketch of the life and character of Mr. Wythe , see my letter of Au- gust 31 , 1820 , to Mr. John Saunderson . [ See Appendix , note A. ] In ...
... court , at which I continued until the Revolution shut up the courts of justice . : * * For a sketch of the life and character of Mr. Wythe , see my letter of Au- gust 31 , 1820 , to Mr. John Saunderson . [ See Appendix , note A. ] In ...
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... court of enquiry held in Rhode Island in 1762 , with a power to send persons to England to be tried for offences committed here , was considered , at our session of the spring of 1773 , as demanding attention . Not thinking our old and ...
... court of enquiry held in Rhode Island in 1762 , with a power to send persons to England to be tried for offences committed here , was considered , at our session of the spring of 1773 , as demanding attention . Not thinking our old and ...
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... court , who , if they should find themselves unable otherwise to extricate themselves from their difficulties , would agree to a par- tition of our territories , restoring Canada to France , and the Flori- das to Spain , to accomplish ...
... court , who , if they should find themselves unable otherwise to extricate themselves from their difficulties , would agree to a par- tition of our territories , restoring Canada to France , and the Flori- das to Spain , to accomplish ...
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... courts of admiralty to be legitimate , in cases of capture of British vessels : That though France and Spain may be jealous of our rising power , they must think it will be much more formidable with the addition of Great Britain ; and ...
... courts of admiralty to be legitimate , in cases of capture of British vessels : That though France and Spain may be jealous of our rising power , they must think it will be much more formidable with the addition of Great Britain ; and ...
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... courts of justice , the organization of which was of impor- tance . I drew the bill ; it was approved by the committee , re- ported and passed , after going through its due course . On the 12th , I obtained leave to bring in a bill ...
... courts of justice , the organization of which was of impor- tance . I drew the bill ; it was approved by the committee , re- ported and passed , after going through its due course . On the 12th , I obtained leave to bring in a bill ...
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Página 19 - 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 19 - Nor have we been wanting in attentions to our British Brethren We have warned them...
Página 16 - Prudence, indeed, will dictate that governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes ; and accordingly all experience hath shewn that mankind are more disposed to suffer while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed.
Página 116 - The God who gave us life, gave us liberty at the same time : the hand of force may destroy, but cannot disjoin them.
Página 17 - He has endeavored to prevent the population of these States; for that purpose obstructing the Laws for Naturalization of Foreigners; refusing to pass others to encourage their migrations hither, and raising the conditions of new Appropriations of Lands.
Página 430 - But if any officer shall break his parole by leaving the district so assigned him, or any other prisoner shall escape from the limits of his cantonment, after they shall have been designated to him, such individual, officer, or other prisoner, shall forfeit so much of the benefit of this article as provides for his liberty on parole or in cantonment.
Página 19 - He has constrained our fellow citizens taken captive on the high seas, to bear arms against their country, to become the executioners of their friends and brethren, or to fall themselves by their hands.
Página 40 - Nothing is more certainly written in the book of fate, than that these people are to be free ; nor is it less certain that the two races, equally free, cannot live in the same government. Nature, habit, opinion have drawn indelible lines of distinction between them.
Página 429 - If war should arise between the two contracting parties, the merchants of either country then residing in the other shall be allowed to remain nine months to collect their debts and settle their affairs, and may depart freely, carrying off all their effects without molestation or hindrance...
Página 92 - Memorial to the House of Lords, and a Remonstrance to the House of Commons, which, after being carefully considered and amended, were unanimously adopted.