 | Marion Mills Miller - Civil rights - 1913 - 488 pages
...be, free and Independent States; that they are Absolved from all Allegiance kings of Great Britain & all others who may hereafter claim by, through, or under them; we utterly dissolve & break off all political connection which may have heretofore have subsisted between us & the people... | |
 | Edwin Wiley, Irving Everett Rines, Albert Bushnell Hart - United States - 1916 - 560 pages
...representatives of the United States of America, in General Congress assembled, do, in the name, and by the authority of the good people of these states, reject...who may hereafter claim by, through, or under them; ice utterly dissolve all political connection which may heretofore have subsisted bcticecn us and the... | |
 | Lewis Alexander Leonard - Maryland - 1918 - 350 pages
...therefore the representatives of the United States in General Congress assembled in the name and by authority of the good people of these states, reject...heretofore have subsisted between us and the people of parliament of Great Britain, and finally we do assert and declare these colonies to be free and... | |
 | United States - Constitutional history - 1896 - 448 pages
...each other our lives, our fortunes, and our sacred honor. gress assembled, do in the name, and by the authority of the good people of these [States reject...us and the people or parliament of Great Britain: and finally we do assert and declare these Colonies to be free and independent States^\ and that as... | |
 | Robert Shafer - American literature - 1926 - 1410 pages
...Representatives of the United States of America, in General Congress assembled,8 do, in the name, and by 926 oj Great Britain and all others who may hereafter claim by, through, or under them; we utterly dissolve... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson - Biography & Autobiography - 1970 - 420 pages
...appealing to the supreme judge of the world for the rectitude of our intentions, do in the name, and by the authority of the good people of these [states reject...us and the people or parliament of Great Britain: and finally we do assert and declare these colonies to be free and independent states,] colonies, solemnly... | |
 | Giles Gunn - Religion - 1981 - 489 pages
...representatives of the United States of America in General Congress assembled, do in the name, and by the authority of the good people of these [states reject...all political connection which may heretofore have substituted between us and the people or parliament oj Great Britain: and finally we do assert and... | |
 | Mary Ann Radzinowicz - Literary Criticism - 1984 - 300 pages
...representatives of the United States of America in General Congress assembled, do in the name, and by the authority of the good people of these [states reject...dissolve all political connection which may heretofore We, therefore, the representatives of the United States of American in General Congress assembled,... | |
 | John P. Diggins - History - 1986 - 430 pages
...of others. The same spirit of autonomy applied to political units as well as discrete individuals: "We do assert and declare these colonies to be free and independent states." Whereas the Scot Hutcheson believed that the moral consensus of society took precedence over the private... | |
 | Peter Charles Hoffer - Political Science - 1990 - 324 pages
...Jefferson did so as well: "Reject and renounce all allegiance and subjection to the kings of l'.reat Britain and all others who may hereafter claim by, through, or under them . . . utterly dissolve all political connection which may heretofore have subsisted between us and... | |
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We, therefore, the representatives of the United States of America, in General Congress assembled, do in the name, and by the authority of the good people of these States, reject and renounce all allegiance and subjection to the Kings of Great Britain... 
