The Geographical Distribution of the Vote of the Thirteen States on the Federal Constitution, 1787-8, Volume 1,Nummers 1-3The University, 1894 - 116 pagina's |
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Pagina 8
... adoption of the Federal Constitution would be likely to act as a unit , distinct from the rest of the state and moved by motives peculiarly their own . As early as 1776 , sixteen of the border towns sent a delegate to a con- vention ...
... adoption of the Federal Constitution would be likely to act as a unit , distinct from the rest of the state and moved by motives peculiarly their own . As early as 1776 , sixteen of the border towns sent a delegate to a con- vention ...
Pagina 11
... adoption of the Federal Constitution , its vote was consistent throughout . Of those towns in union with Ver- mont in 1781 , two - thirds voted for the Constitution . The " Letter of a Landholder " to the " Citizens of New Hamp- shire ...
... adoption of the Federal Constitution , its vote was consistent throughout . Of those towns in union with Ver- mont in 1781 , two - thirds voted for the Constitution . The " Letter of a Landholder " to the " Citizens of New Hamp- shire ...
Pagina 17
... adopted by the town of Portsmouth , August 27 , 1789 , is significant of the conditions during the long struggle for ratification : " And as we hope the formal accession of this state to the constitution is not far distant , and as our ...
... adopted by the town of Portsmouth , August 27 , 1789 , is significant of the conditions during the long struggle for ratification : " And as we hope the formal accession of this state to the constitution is not far distant , and as our ...
Pagina 18
... adoption of the Constitution . The pressure of a badly divided or wavering constituency is very evident in this change . It is also sig- nificant that neither in the counties west of the Hudson river nor in those north of Dutchess ...
... adoption of the Constitution . The pressure of a badly divided or wavering constituency is very evident in this change . It is also sig- nificant that neither in the counties west of the Hudson river nor in those north of Dutchess ...
Pagina 19
... adopting , Jersey and Connecticut will no longer receive their supplies through you , nor send their produce to your market for sale , for you will be on the footing of foreign- These things will be most seriously felt throughout your ...
... adopting , Jersey and Connecticut will no longer receive their supplies through you , nor send their produce to your market for sale , for you will be on the footing of foreign- These things will be most seriously felt throughout your ...
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actual count adoption Anti-Federal Anti-Federal counties Anti-Federal towns Anti-Federalists Barnstable county Berkshire county Boston Bristol county cent Chester coast commercial Connecticut river Consti count of delegates Cumberland debt Delaware delegates voted district divided counties Dutchess east economic election Elliot's Debates Essex county evidence faction favor February Federal area Federal Constitution Federal Convention Federal counties Federalists following extract Franklin county given in totals Grafton county Halifax Hampshire county Hampshire Town Papers Haven Gazette Ibid important instructions interests interior James Iredell Jersey Journal and Register June land legislature letter Madison Maryland Massachusetts Centinel Massachusetts Gazette Middlesex county North Carolina opposed paper money paper money party Patrick Henry Pennsylvania Gazette Pennsylvania Packet Philadelphia Plymouth political population question of ratification region represented Rhode Island Richmond Salisbury sentiment settlement Shays South stitution Suffolk tion tory Total vote tution union United valley vention Virginia Washington West western Worcester county York Journal
Populaire passages
Pagina 31 - In determining questions in the United States, in Congress assembled, each State shall have one vote. Freedom of speech and debate in Congress shall not be impeached or questioned in any court, or place out of Congress, and the members of Congress shall be protected in...
Pagina 31 - You see the consequence of pushing things too far. Some of the members from the small States wish for two branches in the General Legislature, and are friends to a good National Government; but we would sooner submit to a foreign power than submit to be deprived of an equality of suffrage, in both branches of the legislature, and thereby be thrown under the domination of the large States...
Pagina 37 - ... government. Under their own construction of the general clause at the end of the enumerated powers, the Congress may grant monopolies in trade and commerce, constitute new crimes, inflict unusual and...
Pagina vii - A primitive society can hardly be expected to show the intelligent appreciation of the complexity of business interests in a developed society. The continual recurrence of these areas of paper-money agitation is another evidence that the frontier can be isolated and studied as a factor in American history of the highest importance.
Pagina 104 - A Map of the States of Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina and Georgia; Comprehending the Spanish Provinces of East and West Florida: Exhibiting the Boundaries as fixed by the late Treaty of Peace between the United States and the Spanish Dominions.
Pagina 31 - So always and Provided, that such Alterations or further Provisions, or any of them, do not extend to that part of the Fifth Article of the Confederation of the said States, finally...
Pagina 51 - Over and above this positive power, a negative in all cases whatsoever on the legislative acts of the States...
Pagina 16 - Connecticut consumes about one-third of the goods upon which this impost is laid, and consequently pays one-third of this sum to New York. If we import by the medium of Massachusetts, she has an impost, and to her we pay a tribute.
Pagina 51 - States, various blessings, of which an isolated situation was incapable: 4) to be able to defend itself against incroachment: and 5) to be paramount to the state constitutions. 2. In speaking of the defects of the confederation he professed a high respect for its authors, and considered them, as having done all that patriots could do, in the then infancy of the science, of constitutions...
Pagina vi - The colonial and Revolutionary frontier was the region whence emanated many of the worst forms of an evil currency. 48 The West in the War of 1812 repeated the phenomenon on the frontier of that day, while the speculation and wildcat banking of the period of the crisis of 1837 occurred on the new frontier belt of the next tier of states.