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... [ JULY 4 , 1776. ] When in the Course of human events , it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another , and to assume among the Powers of the earth , the separate and equal ...
... [ JULY 4 , 1776. ] When in the Course of human events , it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another , and to assume among the Powers of the earth , the separate and equal ...
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... July , 1776 , the committee reported a draught of the Articles of Confederation , which was printed for the use of the members under the strictest injunctions of secrecy . This report underwent a thorough discussion in Congress , from ...
... July , 1776 , the committee reported a draught of the Articles of Confederation , which was printed for the use of the members under the strictest injunctions of secrecy . This report underwent a thorough discussion in Congress , from ...
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... July , 1778 ; New Jersey on the 26th of November following ; Delaware on the 5th of May , 1779 ; Maryland on the 1st of March , 1781 ; and on the 2d of March , 1781 , Congress assembled under the new form of government . ] ARTICLES OF ...
... July , 1778 ; New Jersey on the 26th of November following ; Delaware on the 5th of May , 1779 ; Maryland on the 1st of March , 1781 ; and on the 2d of March , 1781 , Congress assembled under the new form of government . ] ARTICLES OF ...
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... July in the Year of our Lord , 1778 , and in the 3d year of the Inde- pendence of America . On the part and behalf of the State of New Hampshire . JOSIAH BARTLETT , JOHN WENTWORTH , JUN . August 8 , 1778 . On the part and behalf of the ...
... July in the Year of our Lord , 1778 , and in the 3d year of the Inde- pendence of America . On the part and behalf of the State of New Hampshire . JOSIAH BARTLETT , JOHN WENTWORTH , JUN . August 8 , 1778 . On the part and behalf of the ...
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... July 22nd , 1778 . THO . M'KEAN , Feb. 12 , 1779 , JOHN DICKINSON , May 5 , 1779 , NICHOLAS VAN DYKE . JOHN HANSON ... July 21 , 1778 , JNO . WILLIAMS . CORNS . HARNETT , RICHARD HUTSON , HENRY LAURENS , WILLIAM HENRY DRAYTON , JNO ...
... July 22nd , 1778 . THO . M'KEAN , Feb. 12 , 1779 , JOHN DICKINSON , May 5 , 1779 , NICHOLAS VAN DYKE . JOHN HANSON ... July 21 , 1778 , JNO . WILLIAMS . CORNS . HARNETT , RICHARD HUTSON , HENRY LAURENS , WILLIAM HENRY DRAYTON , JNO ...
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Page 51 - Term, be elected as follows: 2. Each State shall appoint, in such Manner as the Legislature thereof may direct, a Number of Electors, equal to the whole Number of Senators and Representatives to which the State may be entitled in the Congress: but no Senator or Representative, or Person holding an Office of Trust or Profit under the United States, shall be appointed...
Page 34 - The navigable waters leading into the Mississippi and St. Lawrence, and the carrying places between the same, shall be common highways, and forever free...
Page 15 - The better to secure and perpetuate mutual friendship and intercourse among the people of the different States in this Union, the free inhabitants of each of these States, paupers, vagabonds and fugitives from justice excepted, shall be entitled to all privileges and immunities of free citizens in the several States; and the people of each State shall have free ingress and regress to and from any other State, and shall enjoy therein all the privileges of trade and commerce, subject to the same duties,...
Page 32 - No man shall be deprived of his liberty or property, but by the judgment of his peers, or the law of the land ; and should the public exigencies make it necessary, for the common preservation, to take any person's property, or to demand his particular services, full compensation shall be made for the same.
Page 23 - All bills of credit emitted, moneys borrowed, and debts contracted by or under the authority of Congress, before the assembling of the United States, in pursuance of the present Confederation, shall be deemed and considered as a charge against the United States, for payment and satisfaction whereof the said United States and the public faith are hereby solemnly pledged.
Page 35 - And whenever any of the said States shall have sixty thousand free inhabitants therein, such State shall be admitted by its delegates, into the Congress of the United States, on an equal footing with the original States, in all respects whatever ; and shall be at liberty to form a permanent constitution and State government : Provided, The constitution and government, so to be formed, shall be republican, and in conformity to the principles contained in these articles...
Page 15 - States to the records, acts, and judicial proceedings, of the courts and magistrates of every other State. ARTICLE V. For the more convenient management of the general interests of the United States, delegates shall be annually appointed in such manner as the legislature of each State shall direct...
Page 15 - The said states hereby severally enter into a firm league of friendship with each other, for their common defence, the security of their Liberties, and their mutual and general welfare, binding themselves to assist each other, against all force offered to, or attacks made upon, them or any of them, on account of religion, sovereignty, trade, or any other pretence whatever.
Page 39 - Years, in such Manner as they shall by Law direct. The Number of Representatives shall not exceed one for every thirty Thousand, but each State shall have at Least one Representative; and until such enumeration shall be made, the State of New Hampshire shall be entitled to chuse three, Massachusetts eight, Rhode-Island and Providence Plantations one, Connecticut five, New- York six, New Jersey four, Pennsylvania eight, Delaware one, Maryland six, Virginia ten, North Carolina five, South Carolina...
Page 51 - States shall be necessary to a Choice. In every Case, after the Choice of the President, the person having the greatest Number of Votes of the Electors shall be the Vice President. But if there should remain two or more who have equal Votes, the Senate shall chuse from them by Ballot the Vice-President.