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... touch of broad or generous temper . Even Richard Henry Lee , of Virginia , had criticised the Richard Henry Lee RICHARD HENRY LEE sorely tried commander - in - chief's " delays " at the very time when Washington's letters were being ...
... touch of broad or generous temper . Even Richard Henry Lee , of Virginia , had criticised the Richard Henry Lee RICHARD HENRY LEE sorely tried commander - in - chief's " delays " at the very time when Washington's letters were being ...
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... touch of bitter passion the demand of the treaty of peace , that they should , in addition to all this , restore to the loyalists the property they had lost , and pay to British merchants debts which ante- dated the war . Trade ...
... touch of bitter passion the demand of the treaty of peace , that they should , in addition to all this , restore to the loyalists the property they had lost , and pay to British merchants debts which ante- dated the war . Trade ...
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... touch of a feather would turn them any way . " He returned home to push again with renewed vigor the project which for now twenty years he had had at heart , and which had in these new days of independence , as it seemed to him , become ...
... touch of a feather would turn them any way . " He returned home to push again with renewed vigor the project which for now twenty years he had had at heart , and which had in these new days of independence , as it seemed to him , become ...
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... The rest of their task , which concerned common commercial regulations , uniform duties on imports , and joint rules touching the currency , they completed . The Maryland legislature , when 61 FOUNDING A FEDERAL GOVERNMENT.
... The rest of their task , which concerned common commercial regulations , uniform duties on imports , and joint rules touching the currency , they completed . The Maryland legislature , when 61 FOUNDING A FEDERAL GOVERNMENT.
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... touch of reluctance and apprehension . They knew that their business was critically important . It might be that the breaking up of their Union , or its consolida- tion , the setting in or the happy and final preclusion of civil war ...
... touch of reluctance and apprehension . They knew that their business was critically important . It might be that the breaking up of their Union , or its consolida- tion , the setting in or the happy and final preclusion of civil war ...
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Page 296 - There shall be neither slavery nor involuntary servitude in the said territory, otherwise than in the punishment of crimes, whereof the party shall have been duly convicted : Provided always, That any person escaping into the same, from whom labor or service is lawfully claimed in any one of the original States, such fugitive may be lawfully reclaimed, and conveyed to the person claiming his or her labor or service as aforesaid.
Page 295 - Provided, however, and it is further understood and declared that the boundaries of these three States shall be subject so far to be altered, that, if Congress shall hereafter find it - expedient, they shall have authority to form one or two states in that part of the said territory which lies north of an east and west line drawn through the southerly bend or extreme of Lake Michigan.
Page 306 - The President shall, at stated Times, receive for his Services, a Compensation, which shall neither be encreased nor diminished during the Period for which he shall have been elected, and he shall not receive within that Period any other Emolument from the United States, or any of them. Before he enter on the Execution of his Office, he shall take the following Oath or Affirmation:—"I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will faithfully execute the Office of President of the United States, and...
Page 310 - Rules and Regulations respecting the Territory or other Property belonging to the United States ; and nothing in this Constitution shall be so construed as to Prejudice any Claims of the United States, or of any particular State. SECTION 4. The United States shall guarantee to every State in this Union a Republican Form of...
Page 156 - Let us restore to social intercourse that harmony and affection without which liberty and even life itself are but dreary things. And let us reflect that having banished from our land that religious intolerance under which mankind so long bled and suffered, we have yet gained little if we countenance a political intolerance as despotic, as wicked, and capable of as bitter and bloody persecutions.
Page 309 - No person held to service or labour in one State, under the laws thereof, escaping into another, shall, in consequence of any law or regulation therein, be discharged from such service or labour, but shall be delivered up on claim of the party to whom such service or labour may be due. Section 3. New States may be admitted by the Congress into this Union; but no new State shall be formed or erected within the jurisdiction of any other State ; nor any State be formed by the junction of two or more...
Page 144 - ... in case of a deliberate, palpable, and dangerous exercise of other powers not granted by the said compact, the States, who are parties thereto, have the right and are in duty bound to interpose for arresting the progress of the evil, and for maintaining within their respective limits the authorities, rights, .and liberties appertaining to them.
Page 292 - The inhabitants of the said territory, shall always be entitled to the benefits of the writ of habeas corpus, and of the trial by jury...
Page 305 - States, and a majority of all the 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.
Page 292 - As soon as a legislature shall be formed in the district, the council and house assembled, in one room, shall have authority, by joint ballot, to elect a delegate to congress, who shall have a seat in congress, with a right of debating, but not of voting during this temporary government.