A History of American Foreign RelationsThomas Y. Crowell Company, 1927 - 648 páginas |
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... question of whether Parliament was representative in the broad and inclusive sense of representing a colonial sys- tem which furnished it no delegates . The time was to come when the American colonies were to prefer nominal alle- giance ...
... question of whether Parliament was representative in the broad and inclusive sense of representing a colonial sys- tem which furnished it no delegates . The time was to come when the American colonies were to prefer nominal alle- giance ...
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... its expedi- ency , not on its legality . But the renewed agitations over the Townsend Act and the tea duties led men to question the fundamental sovereignty of the empire . Was a Parliament in 16 AMERICAN FOREIGN RELATIONS.
... its expedi- ency , not on its legality . But the renewed agitations over the Townsend Act and the tea duties led men to question the fundamental sovereignty of the empire . Was a Parliament in 16 AMERICAN FOREIGN RELATIONS.
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... question once raised could have but one answer . The slogan " Taxation without representation " is in reality the catchword of district repre- sentation as contrasted with the English principle of class representation , clergy for the ...
... question once raised could have but one answer . The slogan " Taxation without representation " is in reality the catchword of district repre- sentation as contrasted with the English principle of class representation , clergy for the ...
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... question of terms for an alliance . Vergennes placed too high a value on Span- ish coöperation , and knowledge of ... questions disagreeable to the Americans , and it was unlikely that France could satisfy both her ill - mated partners ...
... question of terms for an alliance . Vergennes placed too high a value on Span- ish coöperation , and knowledge of ... questions disagreeable to the Americans , and it was unlikely that France could satisfy both her ill - mated partners ...
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... question of American debts held by British credi- tors the most the Americans would promise was not to impede collection . In practice collection proved to be very difficult . The Loyalists fared badly . Great Britain wished the United ...
... question of American debts held by British credi- tors the most the Americans would promise was not to impede collection . In practice collection proved to be very difficult . The Loyalists fared badly . Great Britain wished the United ...
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Página 506 - I want to take this occasion to say that the United States will never again seek one additional foot of territory by conquest.
Página 530 - We cannot take the word of the present rulers of Germany as a guarantee of anything that is to endure, unless explicitly supported by such conclusive evidence of the will and purpose of the German people themselves as the other peoples of the world would be justified in accepting.
Página 422 - When such report is made and accepted it will, in my opinion, be the duty of the United States to resist by every means in its power as a wilful aggression upon its rights and interests the appropriation by Great Britain of any lands or the exercise of governmental jurisdiction over any territory which after investigation we have determined of right belongs to Venezuela...
Página 519 - The Imperial German Government will not expect the Government of the United States to omit any word or any act necessary to the performance of its sacred duty of maintaining the rights of the United States and its citizens and of safeguarding their free exercise and enjoyment.
Página 59 - In testimony whereof I have caused the seal of the United States of America to be affixed to these presents, and signed the same with my hand.
Página 525 - Mere agreements may not make peace secure. It will be absolutely necessary that a force be created as a guarantor of the permanency of the settlement so much greater than the force of any nation now engaged or any alliance hitherto formed or projected, that no nation, no probable combination of nations, could face or withstand it.
Página 435 - That the United States hereby disclaims any disposition or intention to exercise sovereignty, jurisdiction, or control over said island except for the pacification thereof, and asserts its determination when that is accomplished to leave the government and control of the island to its people.
Página 254 - The power of this republic, at the present moment, is spread over a region one of the richest and most fertile on the globe, and of an extent in comparison with which the possessions of the house of Hapsburg are but as a patch on the earth's surface.
Página 512 - I ask this of you in support of the foreign policy of the administration. I shall not know how to deal with other matters of even greater delicacy and nearer consequence if you do not grant it to me in ungrudging measure.
Página 137 - In this new state of things, I am authorized to declare to you, sir, that the decrees of Berlin and Milan are revoked, and that after the 1st of November they will cease to have effect; it being understood that, in consequence of this declaration, the English shall revoke their orders in council, and renounce the new principles of blockade, which they have wished to establish; or that the United States, conformably to the act you have just communicated, shall cause their rights to be respected by...