A History of the United States and Its People: From Their Earliest Records to the Present Time, Volume 6Burrows Brothers Company, 1909 - United States |
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... The older I grow , the more apt I am to doubt my own judgment , and to pay more respect to the judgment of others . " That the constitution might go before the people supported by apparent unanimity , he proposed as the form of ...
... The older I grow , the more apt I am to doubt my own judgment , and to pay more respect to the judgment of others . " That the constitution might go before the people supported by apparent unanimity , he proposed as the form of ...
Page 436
... The older I grow , the more apt I am to doubt my own judgment , and to pay more respect to the judgment of others . " That the constitution might go before the people supported by apparent unanimity , he proposed as the form of ...
... The older I grow , the more apt I am to doubt my own judgment , and to pay more respect to the judgment of others . " That the constitution might go before the people supported by apparent unanimity , he proposed as the form of ...
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Page 432 - ... appointing all officers of the land forces in the service of the United States, excepting regimental officers ; appointing all the officers of the naval forces, and commissioning all officers whatever in the service of the United States ; making rules for the government and regulation of the said land and naval forces, and directing their operations. The United States, in Congress assembled, shall have authority to appoint a committee to sit in the recess of Congress, to be denominated
Page 429 - Delegates of the United States of America in Congress assembled did on the i5th day of November in the Year of our Lord 1777, and in the Second Year of the Independence of America agree to certain articles of Confederation and perpetual Union between the States of New-Hampshire...
Page 427 - I have said he, often and often in the course of the Session, and the vicissitudes of my hopes and fears as to its issue, looked at that behind the President without being able to tell whether it was rising or setting: But now at length I have the happiness to know that it is a rising and not a setting Sun.
Page 389 - 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...
Page 432 - States in Congress assembled shall have authority to appoint a committee, to sit in the recess of Congress, to be denominated a Committee of the States, and to consist of one delegate from each state; and to appoint such other committees and civil officers as may be necessary for managing the general affairs of the United States under their direction...
Page 400 - 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.
Page 410 - That a national government ought to be established, consisting of a supreme Legislative, Executive and Judiciary.
Page 56 - that the flag of the thirteen United States be thirteen stripes, alternate red and white; that the union be thirteen stars, white in a blue field, representing a new constellation.
Page 31 - These are the times that try men's souls : The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will in this crisis, shrink from the service of his country; but he that stands it Now, deserves the love and thanks of man and woman.
Page 433 - ... execute, in the recess of Congress, such of the powers of Congress as the United States, in Congress assembled, by the consent of nine States, shall from time to time, think expedient to vest them with; provided that no power be delegated to the said committee, for the exercise of which, by the articles of confederation, the voice of nine States, in the Congress of the United States assembled is requisite. Article XI. Canada acceding to this confederation, and joining in the measures of the United...