Prefatory note. The debates in 1776 on the Declaration of Independence, and on a few of the Articles of Confederation, preserved by Thomas Jefferson. Letters of Mr. Madison preceding the debates of 1783. Debates in the Congress of the Confederation, from November 4, 1782, to June 21, 1783. Letters contemporary with, and subsequent to, the debates of 1783A. Mygatt, 1842 |
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الصفحة v
... Secretary , the following message to the Senate and House of Representatives : " WASHINGTON , June 30 , 1836 . " To the Senate and House of Representatives : " It becomes my painful duty to announce to you the melan- choly intelligence ...
... Secretary , the following message to the Senate and House of Representatives : " WASHINGTON , June 30 , 1836 . " To the Senate and House of Representatives : " It becomes my painful duty to announce to you the melan- choly intelligence ...
الصفحة xxi
... Secretary of State , for the United States , the manuscripts described in her conveyance in the follow- ing terms : The Debates of the Convention which framed the Constitution of the United States , prepared by Mr. MADISON , together ...
... Secretary of State , for the United States , the manuscripts described in her conveyance in the follow- ing terms : The Debates of the Convention which framed the Constitution of the United States , prepared by Mr. MADISON , together ...
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... Secretary for Foreign Affairs . - Mr. Jefferson and Mr. Jay spoken of . MONDAY , December 2d , 213 Resignation of the Secretary for Foreign Affairs . TUESDAY , December 3d , 213 Resolution relative to Mr. Livingston . - Report of the ...
... Secretary for Foreign Affairs . - Mr. Jefferson and Mr. Jay spoken of . MONDAY , December 2d , 213 Resignation of the Secretary for Foreign Affairs . TUESDAY , December 3d , 213 Resolution relative to Mr. Livingston . - Report of the ...
الصفحة xxxvii
James Madison Henry Dilworth Gilpin. WEDNESDAY , December 11th , Secretary of War authorized to permit the British prisoners to hire themselves out . The transmission of the Resolutions concerning Vermont . 229 THURSDAY , December 12th ...
James Madison Henry Dilworth Gilpin. WEDNESDAY , December 11th , Secretary of War authorized to permit the British prisoners to hire themselves out . The transmission of the Resolutions concerning Vermont . 229 THURSDAY , December 12th ...
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... Secretary for Foreign Affairs relative to West Florida . WEDNESDAY , March 19th , - Letter from the Superintendent of Finance . - Dr . Franklin . - Count de Vergennes . - Conduct of American Ministers to- wards France discussed ...
... Secretary for Foreign Affairs relative to West Florida . WEDNESDAY , March 19th , - Letter from the Superintendent of Finance . - Dr . Franklin . - Count de Vergennes . - Conduct of American Ministers to- wards France discussed ...
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الصفحة 376 - 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...
الصفحة 21 - 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.
الصفحة 21 - He has [suffered] the administration of justice [totally to cease in some of these states] refusing his assent to laws for establishing judiciary powers. He has made [our] judges dependent on his will alone for the tenure of their offices and the amount and payment of their salaries. He has erected a multitude of new offices [by a self-assumed power] and sent hither swarms of new officers to harass our people and eat out their substance.
الصفحة 26 - 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.
الصفحة 25 - We have reminded them of the circumstances of our emigration and settlement here, no one of which could warrant so strange a pretension; that these were effected at the expense of our own blood and treasure, unassisted by the wealth or the strength of Great Britain; that in constituting indeed our several forms of government, we had adopted one common king, thereby laying a foundation for perpetual league and amity with them; but that submission to their parliament was no part of our Constitution...
الصفحة 24 - And that this assemblage of horrors might want no fact of distinguished die, he is now exciting those very people to rise in arms among us, and to purchase that liberty of which he has deprived them, by murdering the people on whom he also obtruded them: thus paying off former crimes committed against the LIBERTIES of one people with crimes which he urges them to commit against the LIVES of another...
الصفحة 25 - 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...
الصفحة 9 - Congress should declare that these United colonies are, and of right ought to be, free and independent states, that they are absolved from all allegiance to the British crown, and that all political connection between them and the state of Great Britain is, and ought to be, totally dissolved; that measures should be immediately taken for procuring the assistance of foreign powers, and a Confederation be formed to bind the colonies more closely together.
الصفحة 9 - DO, in the name and by the authority of the good people of these colonies, solemnly publish and declare, that these united colonies, are, and of right ought to be, free and independent states ; that they are absolved from all allegiance to the British crown, and that all political connexion between them and the state of Great Britain, is and ought to be totally dissolved...