Memoir, Correspondence, and Miscellanies from the Papers of T. Jefferson, Volumes 1-2F. Carr & Company, 1829 |
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... things were going on , and at their close wrote them out in form and with correctness , and from 1 to 7 of the two preceding sheets , are the originals then [ * See Appendix , note B. ] written ; as the two following are of the earlier.
... things were going on , and at their close wrote them out in form and with correctness , and from 1 to 7 of the two preceding sheets , are the originals then [ * See Appendix , note B. ] written ; as the two following are of the earlier.
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... thing as equal representation . The Germanic body votes by states . The Helvetic body does the same ; and so does the Belgic confederacy . That too little is known of the antient confederations , to say what was their practice . Mr ...
... thing as equal representation . The Germanic body votes by states . The Helvetic body does the same ; and so does the Belgic confederacy . That too little is known of the antient confederations , to say what was their practice . Mr ...
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... thing on earth , which shall be for the interests of Virginia , Pennsylvania and Massachusetts , and which will not also be for the interest of the other states . * These articles , reported July 12 , '76 , were debated from day to day ...
... thing on earth , which shall be for the interests of Virginia , Pennsylvania and Massachusetts , and which will not also be for the interest of the other states . * These articles , reported July 12 , '76 , were debated from day to day ...
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... thing is more certainly written in the book of fate , than that these people are to be free ; nor is it less certain that the two races , equally free , cannot live in the same government . Nature , habit , opinion have drawn indelible ...
... thing is more certainly written in the book of fate , than that these people are to be free ; nor is it less certain that the two races , equally free , cannot live in the same government . Nature , habit , opinion have drawn indelible ...
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... thing to be more ungracious , than their notice of Mr. Adams and myself . I saw , at once , that the ulcerations of mind in that quarter , left nothing to be expected on the subject of my attendance ; and , on the first conference with ...
... thing to be more ungracious , than their notice of Mr. Adams and myself . I saw , at once , that the ulcerations of mind in that quarter , left nothing to be expected on the subject of my attendance ; and , on the first conference with ...
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Page 17 - He has endeavored to prevent the population of these States; for that purpose obstructing the Laws for Naturalization of Foreigners; refusing to pass others to encourage their migrations hither, and raising the conditions of new Appropriations of Lands. He has obstructed the Administration of Justice, by refusing his Assent to Laws for establishing Judiciary powers. He has made Judges dependent on his Will alone, for the tenure of their offices, and the amount and payment of their salaries. He has...
Page 437 - I never submitted the whole system of my opinions to the creed of any party of men whatever, in religion, in philosophy, in politics or in anything else, where I was capable of thinking for myself. Such an addiction, is the last degradation of a free and moral agent . If I could not go to heaven but with a party, I would not go there at all.
Page 18 - He has constrained our fellow citizens taken captive on the high seas, to bear arms against their country, to become the executioners of their friends and brethren, or to fall themselves by their hands.
Page 19 - He has waged cruel war against human nature itself, violating its most sacred rights of life and liberty in the persons of a distant people who never offended him, captivating and carrying them into slavery in another hemisphere, or to incur miserable death in their transportation thither.
Page 426 - ... but if any officer shall break his parole, 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 enlargement on parole or cantonment.
Page 272 - First the omission of a bill of rights providing clearly and without the aid of sophisms for freedom of religion, freedom of the press, protection against standing armies, restriction against monopolies, the eternal and unremitting force of the habeas corpus laws, and trials by jury in all matters of fact triable by the laws of the land and not by the law of Nations.
Page 85 - I hold it that a little rebellion now and then is a good thing, and as necessary in the political world as storms in the physical.
Page 425 - If War should arise between the two Contracting Parties, the merchants of either country then residing in the other, shall be allowed to remain nine months to collect their debts and settle their affairs, and may depart freely, carrying off all their effects, without molestation or hindrance...
Page 274 - The late rebellion in Massachusetts has given more alarm, than I think it should have done. Calculate that one rebellion in...
Page 378 - ... or to others of the same nation. But if they be not sent back within two months, to be counted from the day of their arrest, they shall be set at liberty, and shall be no more arrested for the same cause ARTICLE THIRTIETH.