Memoirs, correspondence and private papers of Thomas Jefferson, ed. by T.J. Randolph1829 |
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... reason : expatri- ation being a natural right , and acted on as such , by all nations , in all ages . I set out for Williamsburg some days before that appointed for our meeting , but was taken ill of a dysentery on the road , and was ...
... reason : expatri- ation being a natural right , and acted on as such , by all nations , in all ages . I set out for Williamsburg some days before that appointed for our meeting , but was taken ill of a dysentery on the road , and was ...
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... reason to expect an alliance with those to whom alone , as yet , we had cast our eyes : That France and Spain had reason to be jealous of that rising power , which would one day certainly strip them of all their American possessions ...
... reason to expect an alliance with those to whom alone , as yet , we had cast our eyes : That France and Spain had reason to be jealous of that rising power , which would one day certainly strip them of all their American possessions ...
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Thomas Jefferson Thomas Jefferson Randolph. more reason therefore for taxing the Southern states on the farmer's head , and on his slave's head , than the Northern ones on their farmer's heads and the heads of their cattle : that the ...
Thomas Jefferson Thomas Jefferson Randolph. more reason therefore for taxing the Southern states on the farmer's head , and on his slave's head , than the Northern ones on their farmer's heads and the heads of their cattle : that the ...
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... reason . As to those matters which are referred to Congress , we are not so many states ; we are one large state . We lay aside our in- dividuality , whenever we come here . The Germanic body is a burlesque on government : and their ...
... reason . As to those matters which are referred to Congress , we are not so many states ; we are one large state . We lay aside our in- dividuality , whenever we come here . The Germanic body is a burlesque on government : and their ...
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... reason and right . It still met with opposition ; but , with some mutilations in the preamble , it was finally passed ; and a singular pro- position proved that its protection of opinion was meant to be universal . Where the preamble ...
... reason and right . It still met with opposition ; but , with some mutilations in the preamble , it was finally passed ; and a singular pro- position proved that its protection of opinion was meant to be universal . Where the preamble ...
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Page 23 - All charges of war and all other expenses that shall be incurred for the common defence or general welfare, and allowed by the United States in congress assembled, shall be defrayed out of a common treasury...
Page 119 - The God who gave us life, gave us liberty at the same time : the hand of force may destroy, but cannot disjoin them.
Page 20 - Determined to keep open a market where MEN should be bought and sold, he has prostituted his negative for suppressing every legislative attempt to prohibit or to restrain this execrable commerce.
Page 22 - Britain; and finally we do assert and declare these colonies to be free and independent states,] and that as free and independent states, they have full power to levy war, conclude peace, contract alliances, establish commerce, and to do all other acts and things which independent states may of right do. And for the support of this declaration, we mutually pledge to each other our lives, our fortunes, and our sacred honor.
Page 21 - Nor have we been wanting in attentions to our British Brethren We have warned them from Time to Time of attempts by their Legislature to extend an unwarrantable Jurisdiction over us...
Page 292 - I consider the class of artificers as the panders of vice, and the instruments by which the liberties of a country are generally overturned.
Page 18 - He has refused for a long time, after such dissolutions, to cause others to be elected; whereby the Legislative Powers, incapable of Annihilation, have returned to the People at large for their exercise; the State remaining in the mean time exposed to all the dangers of invasion from without, and convulsions within.
Page 21 - At this very time, too, they are permitting their chief magistrate to send over not only soldiers of our common blood, but Scotch and foreign mercenaries to invade and destroy us. These facts have given the last stab to agonizing affection, and manly spirit bids us to renounce forever these unfeeling brethren.
Page 432 - But if any officer shall break his parole by leaving the district so assigned him, or any other prisoner shall escape from the limits of his cantonment, after they shall have been designated to him, such individual, officer, or other prisoner, shall forfeit so much of the benefit of this article as provides for his liberty on parole or in cantonment.
Page 22 - We, therefore, the representatives of the United States of America, in General Congress assembled, do in the name, and by the authority of the good people of these States, reject and renounce all allegiance and subjection to the Kings of Great Britain and all others who may hereafter claim by, through, or under them; we utterly dissolve all political connection which may heretofore have subsisted between us and the people or Parliament of Great Britain; and, finally, we do assert and declare these...