The Life of Thomas Jefferson, Third President of the United States: With Parts of His Correspondence Never Before Published, and Notices of His Opinions on Questions of Civil Government, National Policy, and Constitutional Law, المجلد 2Carey, Lea & Blanchard, 1837 - 4 من الصفحات |
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... Treaty . Offers Thomas Paine a con- veyance to America . His Justification . Letter to Dr. Priestley - to Mr. Gerry . His Cabinet . Political changes in New England . Abro- gation of Forms . Remonstrance from New Haven . The President's ...
... Treaty . Offers Thomas Paine a con- veyance to America . His Justification . Letter to Dr. Priestley - to Mr. Gerry . His Cabinet . Political changes in New England . Abro- gation of Forms . Remonstrance from New Haven . The President's ...
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... Treaty with France ratified , and possession taken of Louisiana . Professorship of Agriculture . 129 CHAPTER VII . 1804-1805 . The President recommends a repeal of the Bankrupt Law . Bank of the United States . Statistics of Louisiana ...
... Treaty with France ratified , and possession taken of Louisiana . Professorship of Agriculture . 129 CHAPTER VII . 1804-1805 . The President recommends a repeal of the Bankrupt Law . Bank of the United States . Statistics of Louisiana ...
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... Treaty with England . Character of the Treaty . The President declines submitting it to the Senate . Further nego- tiations . Burr's Conspiracy . His Arrest and Trial . The Presi- dent's Correspondence with the Attorney of the United ...
... Treaty with England . Character of the Treaty . The President declines submitting it to the Senate . Further nego- tiations . Burr's Conspiracy . His Arrest and Trial . The Presi- dent's Correspondence with the Attorney of the United ...
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... treaty was dictated by a wish to form a closer connexion with England , and that its consequences would be injurious to the interests of France and her influence VOL . II . - 2 in the United States . When that treaty moreover was.
... treaty was dictated by a wish to form a closer connexion with England , and that its consequences would be injurious to the interests of France and her influence VOL . II . - 2 in the United States . When that treaty moreover was.
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... treaty , and pressed them with so much earnestness that we see not how the United States could take any course which must not either openly violate the treaty , or exasperate the French go- vernment , and alienate their friends in the ...
... treaty , and pressed them with so much earnestness that we see not how the United States could take any course which must not either openly violate the treaty , or exasperate the French go- vernment , and alienate their friends in the ...
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الصفحة 74 - I have sworn upon the altar of God, eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man.
الصفحة 88 - Still one thing more, fellow-citizens, a wise and frugal government, which shall restrain men from injuring one another, shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned.
الصفحة 389 - Some men look at constitutions with sanctimonious reverence, and deem them like the ark of the covenant, too sacred to be touched. They ascribe to the men of the preceding age a wisdom more than human, and suppose what they did to be beyond amendment.
الصفحة 88 - ... enlightened by a benign religion, professed indeed and practiced in various forms, yet all of them inculcating honesty, truth, temperance, gratitude, and the love of man, acknowledging and adoring an overruling providence, which by all its dispensations proves that it delights in the happiness of man here, and his greater happiness hereafter; with all these blessings, what more is necessary to make us a happy and prosperous people?
الصفحة 87 - If there be any among us who would wish to dissolve this Union, or to change its republican form, let them stand undisturbed as monuments of the safety with which error of opinion may be tolerated, where reason is left free to combat it.
الصفحة 482 - to lay and collect taxes, to pay the debts and provide for the common defense and general welfare of the United States...
الصفحة 147 - The Constitution has made no provision for our holding foreign territory, still less for incorporating foreign nations into our Union. The Executive, in seizing the fugitive occurrence which so much advances the good of their country, have done an act beyond the Constitution.
الصفحة 215 - Their patriotism would certainly prefer its continuance and application to the great purposes of the public education, roads, rivers, canals, and such other objects of public improvement as it may be thought proper to add to the constitutional enumeration of federal powers.
الصفحة 101 - If a due participation of office is a matter of right, how are vacancies to be obtained ? Those by death are few ; by resignation, none. Can any other mode than that of removal be proposed ? This is a painful office ; but it is made my duty, and I meet it as such.
الصفحة 343 - ... been inconsistent in creation to have formed man for the social state, and not to have provided virtue and wisdom enough to manage the concerns of the society. May we not even say, that that form of government is the best, which provides the most effectually for a pure selection of these natural aristoi into the offices of government? The artificial aristocracy is a mischievous ingredient in government, and provision should be made to prevent its ascendency.