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V AN INTRODUCTION TO THE STUDY OF THE CONSTITUTIONAL AND POLITICAL HISTORY OF THE STATES IN HISTORICAL AND POLITICAL SCIENCE HERBERT B. ADAMS , Editor GERMANTOWN ITS ORIGIN, AND FORM OF GOVERN-
V AN INTRODUCTION TO THE STUDY OF THE CONSTITUTIONAL AND POLITICAL HISTORY OF THE STATES IN HISTORICAL AND POLITICAL SCIENCE HERBERT B. ADAMS , Editor GERMANTOWN ITS ORIGIN, AND FORM OF GOVERN-
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... AN INTRODUCTION TO THE STUDY OF THE Constitutional and Political History of the States BY J. FRANKLIN JAMESON , Ph . D. Associate in History , Johns Hopkins University BALTIMORE N. MURRAY , PUBLICATION AGENT , JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY ...
... AN INTRODUCTION TO THE STUDY OF THE Constitutional and Political History of the States BY J. FRANKLIN JAMESON , Ph . D. Associate in History , Johns Hopkins University BALTIMORE N. MURRAY , PUBLICATION AGENT , JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY ...
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AN INTRODUCTION TO THE STUDY OF THE Constitutional and Political History of the States . ' I. Three years ago , when I first visited the library of the Department of State at Washington , the Constitution of the United States was kept ...
AN INTRODUCTION TO THE STUDY OF THE Constitutional and Political History of the States . ' I. Three years ago , when I first visited the library of the Department of State at Washington , the Constitution of the United States was kept ...
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Populaire passages
Pagina 123 - September last, shall be disposed of for the common benefit of the United States, and be settled and formed into distinct republican States, which shall become members of the Federal Union, and have the same rights of sovereignty, freedom, and independence, as the other States...
Pagina 86 - And for extending the fundamental principles of civil and religious liberty, which form the basis whereon these republics, their laws, and constitutions are erected; to fix and establish those principles as the basis of all laws, constitutions and governments, which forever hereafter shall be formed in the said territory...
Pagina 88 - There shall be neither slavery nor involuntary servitude in the said territory otherwise than in the punishment of crimes, whereof the party shall have been duly convicted; Provided, always, That any person escaping into the same, from whom labor or service is lawfully claimed in any one of the original States, such fugitive may be lawfully reclaimed and conveyed to the person claiming his or her labor or service as aforesaid.
Pagina 166 - That no lands acquired under the provisions of this act shall in any event become liable to the satisfaction of any debt or debts contracted prior to the issuing of the patent therefor.
Pagina 109 - No colony in America was ever settled under such favorable auspices, as that which has just commenced at the Muskingum. Information, property, and strength, will be its characteristics. I know many of the settlers personally, and there never were men better calculated to promote the welfare of such a community.
Pagina 36 - There is on the globe one single spot, the possessor of which is our natural and habitual enemy. It is New Orleans, through which the produce of threeeighths of our territory must pass to market, and from its fertility it will ere long yield more than half of our whole produce, and contain more than half of our inhabitants.
Pagina 36 - The day that France takes possession of New Orleans, fixes the sentence which is to restrain her forever within her low-water mark. It seals the union of two nations, who, in conjunction, can maintain exclusive possession of the ocean. From that moment, we must marry ourselves to the British fleet and nation.
Pagina 7 - Let every house be placed, if the person pleases, in the middle of its plat, as to the breadth way of it, that so there may be ground on each side for gardens or orchards, or fields, that it may be a green country town, which will never be burnt, and always be wholesome.
Pagina 20 - That the United States in Congress assembled shall have the sole and exclusive right and power to ascertain and fix the western boundary of such States as claim to the Mississippi or South Sea, and lay out the land beyond the boundary so ascertained into separate and independent States from time to time as the numbers and circumstances of the people thereof may require.
Pagina 79 - That there shall be neither slavery nor involuntary servitude in any of the States described in the resolve of Congress of the 23d of April, 1784, otherwise than in the punishment of crimes, whereof the party shall have been personally guilty; and that this regulation shall be an article of compact, and remain a fundamental principle of the constitutions between the thirteen original States, and each of the States described in the said resolve of the 23d of April, 1784.