The Manual of Liberty, Or, Testimonies in Behalf of the Rights of Mankind; Selected from the Best Authorities, in Prose and Verse, and Methodically Arranged |
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... officers to a private station , and supply the vacancies by certain and regular elec- tions . Pennsylvania Declaration of Rights . WERE [ such ] smooth , ensnaring terms rightly explained to the people , and the controversy of non ...
... officers to a private station , and supply the vacancies by certain and regular elec- tions . Pennsylvania Declaration of Rights . WERE [ such ] smooth , ensnaring terms rightly explained to the people , and the controversy of non ...
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... officers of government , whether legislative or executive , are their trustees and servants , and at all times accountable to them . Government is , or ought to be instituted for the common benefit , protection , and security of the ...
... officers of government , whether legislative or executive , are their trustees and servants , and at all times accountable to them . Government is , or ought to be instituted for the common benefit , protection , and security of the ...
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What has been said of the chief , is true of the inferior officers of this species of government ; each in his province exercising the same tyranny , and grinding the people by an oppression , the more severely felt , as it is near them ...
What has been said of the chief , is true of the inferior officers of this species of government ; each in his province exercising the same tyranny , and grinding the people by an oppression , the more severely felt , as it is near them ...
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... officers of state as chanced to come in his way . Such was the government of Muley Ishmael , " the servant of God , the emperor of the faithful , who was courageous in the very way of the lord , the noble , the good . " To conclude this ...
... officers of state as chanced to come in his way . Such was the government of Muley Ishmael , " the servant of God , the emperor of the faithful , who was courageous in the very way of the lord , the noble , the good . " To conclude this ...
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... officer escorting pro- visions . " For whom are those provisions ? " said the poor condemned wretch . " For the caliph's " dogs , " replied the officer . cried the Arab , " is the condition of a tyrant's dogs , " than that of his ...
... officer escorting pro- visions . " For whom are those provisions ? " said the poor condemned wretch . " For the caliph's " dogs , " replied the officer . cried the Arab , " is the condition of a tyrant's dogs , " than that of his ...
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