The United States of America ...Ginn, 1922 - 803 páginas |
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... became a sort of temporary slave . Professor John R. Commons reckons that half the English who came to the col- onies were redemptioners . a group of committees , only meeting when the sovereign THE COLONIAL BACKGROUND 9.
... became a sort of temporary slave . Professor John R. Commons reckons that half the English who came to the col- onies were redemptioners . a group of committees , only meeting when the sovereign THE COLONIAL BACKGROUND 9.
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... slave of the moneyed classes . The Constitution is brief , clear , and simple . Its unique virtue from the point of view of political science is the device by which it secured the supremacy of the new federal govern- ment without ...
... slave of the moneyed classes . The Constitution is brief , clear , and simple . Its unique virtue from the point of view of political science is the device by which it secured the supremacy of the new federal govern- ment without ...
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... slave state were beginning to convulse Congress and the country just at the moment when the Spanish treaty was concluded . Monroe may well have wished to avoid the charge of favoring the interests of the slaveholder by adding to our ...
... slave state were beginning to convulse Congress and the country just at the moment when the Spanish treaty was concluded . Monroe may well have wished to avoid the charge of favoring the interests of the slaveholder by adding to our ...
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... slavery in the proposed new state of Missouri , but with little surmise that they had exchanged the first shots in a conflict which was to plunge the country into civil war . Negro slavery had been introduced into the colony of James ...
... slavery in the proposed new state of Missouri , but with little surmise that they had exchanged the first shots in a conflict which was to plunge the country into civil war . Negro slavery had been introduced into the colony of James ...
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... slavery . A clause in the Treaty of Utrecht ( the " Asiento " ) gave to England the monopoly of the slave trade from the shores of Africa to the Spanish colonies of the New World ( 1713 ) . There was an unlimited market on the Guinea ...
... slavery . A clause in the Treaty of Utrecht ( the " Asiento " ) gave to England the monopoly of the slave trade from the shores of Africa to the Spanish colonies of the New World ( 1713 ) . There was an unlimited market on the Guinea ...
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Página 114 - Superior Court of the State where the cause shall be tried, "well and truly to hear and determine the matter in question, according to the best of his judgment, without favor, affection, or hope of reward:" provided also that no State shall be deprived of territory for the benefit of the United States.
Página 137 - 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 326 - ... is, not to interfere in the internal concerns of any of its powers; to consider the government de facto as the legitimate government for us; to cultivate friendly relations with it, and to preserve those relations by a frank, firm, and manly policy, meeting, in all instances, the just claims of every power; submitting to injuries from none.
Página 364 - The Congress, the Executive and the Court must each for itself be guided by its own opinion of the Constitution. Each public officer who takes an oath to support the Constitution swears that he will support it as he understands it, and not as it is understood by others.
Página 324 - Our first and fundamental maxim should be, never to entangle ourselves in the broils of Europe. Our second, never to suffer Europe to intermeddle with cisAtlantic affairs.
Página 509 - I believe this government cannot endure permanently half slave and half free. I do not expect the Union to be dissolved. I do not expect the house to fall. But I do expect it will cease to be divided. It will become all one thing, or all the other.
Página 181 - I will never send another Minister to France without assurances that he will be received, respected, and honored, as the representative of a great, free, powerful, and independent nation.
Página 509 - We are now far into the fifth year since a policy was initiated with the avowed object and confident promise of putting an end to slavery agitation. Under the operation of that policy, that agitation has not only not ceased, but has constantly augmented. In my opinion, it will not cease until a crisis shall have been reached and passed. "A house divided against itself cannot stand.
Página 610 - I am not accustomed to the use of language of eulogy; I have never studied the art of paying compliments to women ; but I must say, that if all that has been said by orators and poets since the creation of the world in praise of women were applied to the women of America, it would not do them justice for their conduct during this war.
Página 617 - Mexico, and that they therefore think fit to declare that it does not accord with the policy of the United States to acknowledge any monarchical Government erected on the ruins of any republican Government in America under the auspices of any European power.