The Life of Thomas Jefferson, Third President of the United States: With Parts of His Correspondence Never Before Published, and Notices of His Opinions on Questions of Civil Government, National Policy, and Constitutional Law, Volumen1C. Knight, 1837 - 4 páginas |
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... afterwards . It is to the spirit of commerce , which , in its undistinguishing pursuit of gain , ministers to our vices no less than to our necessary wants , that Virginia owes this portentous accession to her popu- lation . A Dutch ...
... afterwards . It is to the spirit of commerce , which , in its undistinguishing pursuit of gain , ministers to our vices no less than to our necessary wants , that Virginia owes this portentous accession to her popu- lation . A Dutch ...
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... afterwards the law was so far mitigated as to transfer this mark of ignominy to the shoulder . In 1662 , their term of service , which did not often exceed four or five years , might , for the offence of running away , be prolonged , at ...
... afterwards the law was so far mitigated as to transfer this mark of ignominy to the shoulder . In 1662 , their term of service , which did not often exceed four or five years , might , for the offence of running away , be prolonged , at ...
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... afterwards ( 1740 ) it was increased to ten per cent . , from which it was never reduced . It did not , however , prevent large importa- tions , for we find the number to have increased in 119 years in the ratio of 1 to 146 : that is ...
... afterwards ( 1740 ) it was increased to ten per cent . , from which it was never reduced . It did not , however , prevent large importa- tions , for we find the number to have increased in 119 years in the ratio of 1 to 146 : that is ...
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... afterwards took place during the greater part of the time of the Commonwealth . The Governor and Council , too , in their judicial character , exercised original as well as appellate jurisdiction , and ap- peals from their decision lay ...
... afterwards took place during the greater part of the time of the Commonwealth . The Governor and Council , too , in their judicial character , exercised original as well as appellate jurisdiction , and ap- peals from their decision lay ...
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... afterwards ; slaves were regarded as real estate for the purpose of being annexed to the land , and of transmitting an undivided inheritance to the heir and lastly , in 1705 , a law was passed to take away from the courts the power of ...
... afterwards ; slaves were regarded as real estate for the purpose of being annexed to the land , and of transmitting an undivided inheritance to the heir and lastly , in 1705 , a law was passed to take away from the courts the power of ...
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Página 241 - 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...
Página 611 - Nor have we been wanting in attentions to our British Brethren We have warned them...
Página 611 - 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 609 - 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 32 - 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 125 - 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 610 - He has [suffered] * the administration of justice [totally to cease in some of these States] 2 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 87 - Creator hath graciously bestowed upon us, the arms we have been compelled by our enemies to assume, we will, in defiance of every hazard, with unabating firmness and perseverance, employ for the preservation of our liberties — being with one mind resolved to die FREEMEN rather than to live SLAVES.
Página 259 - I am convinced that those societies (as the Indians) which live without government, enjoy in their general mass an infinitely greater degree of happiness than those who live under the European governments.