The Writings of Thomas Jefferson: Miscellaneous: 4. Parliamentary manual; 5. The anas; 6. Miscellaneous papersTaylor & Maury, 1854 |
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... trees is punished capitally . The reason is , that it being impossible to lock fruit trees up in coffers , as we do our money , it is impossible to oppose physical bars to this species of theft . Moral ones are , therefore , opposed by ...
... trees is punished capitally . The reason is , that it being impossible to lock fruit trees up in coffers , as we do our money , it is impossible to oppose physical bars to this species of theft . Moral ones are , therefore , opposed by ...
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... trees , but none of any other kind , and no inclosures . No cattle , sheep , or swine ; fine mules . Few châteaux ; no farm - houses , all the people being gathered in villages . Are they thus collected by that dogma of their re- ligion ...
... trees , but none of any other kind , and no inclosures . No cattle , sheep , or swine ; fine mules . Few châteaux ; no farm - houses , all the people being gathered in villages . Are they thus collected by that dogma of their re- ligion ...
Page 314
... trees , eight American miles long , in a right line . It is impossible to paint the ennui of this avenue . On the summits of the hills which border the valley in which Vitteaux is , there is a parapet of rock , twenty , thirty , or ...
... trees , eight American miles long , in a right line . It is impossible to paint the ennui of this avenue . On the summits of the hills which border the valley in which Vitteaux is , there is a parapet of rock , twenty , thirty , or ...
Page 318
... trees , and corn . Rows of fruit trees are planted about twenty feet apart . Between the trees , in the row , they plant vines four feet apart , and espalier them . The intervals are sowed alternately in corn , so as to be one year in ...
... trees , and corn . Rows of fruit trees are planted about twenty feet apart . Between the trees , in the row , they plant vines four feet apart , and espalier them . The intervals are sowed alternately in corn , so as to be one year in ...
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... trees where there is still less , and vines where there is none . On the whole , it assumes a romantic , picturesque ... tree yields about three livres profit a year .. Supposing them three toises apart , there will be one hundred to the ...
... trees where there is still less , and vines where there is none . On the whole , it assumes a romantic , picturesque ... tree yields about three livres profit a year .. Supposing them three toises apart , there will be one hundred to the ...
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Page 464 - Constitution for the United States and of amendments thereto, they constituted a general government for special purposes, delegated to that government certain definite powers, reserving, each State to itself, the residuary mass of right to their own self-government; and that whensoever the general government assumes undelegated powers, its acts are unauthoritative, void, and of no force...
Page 487 - that the laws of the several States, except where the Constitution, treaties, or statutes of the United States shall otherwise require or provide, shall be regarded as rules of decision in trials at common law in the courts of the United States, in cases where they apply.
Page 471 - That they will view this as seizing the rights of the States and consolidating them in the hands of the General Government with...
Page 466 - States," which does abridge the freedom of the press, is not law, but is altogether void and of no effect. IV. Resolved, that alien friends are under the jurisdiction and protection of the laws of the State wherein they are ; that no power over them has been delegated to the United States, nor prohibited to the individual States distinct from their power over citizens ; and it being true as a general principle, and one of the amendments to the Constitution having also declared that " the powers not...
Page 8 - Nor may their lands or goods be distrained: 7th. Nor their persons assaulted, or characters traduced. And the period of time covered by privilege, before and after the session, with the practice of short prorogations under the connivance of the Crown, amounts in fact to a perpetual protection against the course of justice. In one instance, indeed, it has been relaxed by the 10 G.
Page 470 - ... in questions of power, then, let no more be heard of confidence in man, but bind him down from mischief by the chains of the Constitution.
Page 465 - Government created by this compact was not made the exclusive or final judge of the extent of the powers delegated to itself; since that would have made its discretion, and not the Constitution, the measure of its powers; but that as in all other cases of compact among parties having no common judge, each party has an equal right to judge for itself, as well of infractions, as of the mode and measure of redress.
Page 466 - States or to the people ; that thus was manifested their determination to retain to themselves the right of judging how far the licentiousness of speech and of the press may be abridged without lessening their useful freedom, and how far those abuses which cannot be separated from their use should be tolerated rather than the use be destroyed...
Page 55 - ... successively on the longest. Otherwise it would be in the power of the mover, by inserting originally a short time, to preclude the possibility of a longer; for till the short time is struck out, you cannot...
Page 280 - ... to the enemies of the other, shall be deemed contraband so as to induce confiscation or condemnation and a loss of property to individuals. Nevertheless it shall be lawful to stop such vessels and articles, and to detain them for such length of time as the captors may think...