Great Debates in American History: Colonial rights; the revolution; the ConstitutionMarion Mills Miller Current Literature Publishing Company, 1913 |
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... resolution declaring Parliament supreme : in favor , Gen. HENRY SEYMOUR CONWAY and the MARQUIS of ROCKINGHAM ; opposed , Col. IsAAC BARRÉ , and MR . PITT . Debate in the Commons on the Repeal of the Stamp Act : in favor , Gen. CONWAY ...
... resolution declaring Parliament supreme : in favor , Gen. HENRY SEYMOUR CONWAY and the MARQUIS of ROCKINGHAM ; opposed , Col. IsAAC BARRÉ , and MR . PITT . Debate in the Commons on the Repeal of the Stamp Act : in favor , Gen. CONWAY ...
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... resolution of RICHARD HENRY LEE ( Va . ) , declaring American Independence : in favor , Mr. LEE , JOHN ADAMS ( Mass . ) , GEORGE WHYTE ( Va . ) ; opposed , JOHN HANCOCK ( Mass . ) , JAMES WILSON ( Pa . ) , ROBERT R. LIV- INGSTON ( N. Y. ) ...
... resolution of RICHARD HENRY LEE ( Va . ) , declaring American Independence : in favor , Mr. LEE , JOHN ADAMS ( Mass . ) , GEORGE WHYTE ( Va . ) ; opposed , JOHN HANCOCK ( Mass . ) , JAMES WILSON ( Pa . ) , ROBERT R. LIV- INGSTON ( N. Y. ) ...
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... Resolutions of Patrick Henry against the Act in the Virginia Assembly : in favor , Mr. Henry , George Johnson and Richard Henry Lee ; opposed , Peyton Randolph- Stamp Act Congress - Boycott of Stamps - Sons of Liberty - Speech of John ...
... Resolutions of Patrick Henry against the Act in the Virginia Assembly : in favor , Mr. Henry , George Johnson and Richard Henry Lee ; opposed , Peyton Randolph- Stamp Act Congress - Boycott of Stamps - Sons of Liberty - Speech of John ...
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... resolutions were passed in the House of Commons continuing and making perpetual the duties on sugar , molasses , and some other articles imported into the colonies , with additions and amendments . MEMORIALS OF THE COLONIES These ...
... resolutions were passed in the House of Commons continuing and making perpetual the duties on sugar , molasses , and some other articles imported into the colonies , with additions and amendments . MEMORIALS OF THE COLONIES These ...
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... RESOLUTIONS OF PATRICK HENRY The following are the resolutions which Mr. Henry introduced in the House of Burgesses on the Stamp Act : Whereas the honorable House of Commons in England have of late drawn into question how far the ...
... RESOLUTIONS OF PATRICK HENRY The following are the resolutions which Mr. Henry introduced in the House of Burgesses on the Stamp Act : Whereas the honorable House of Commons in England have of late drawn into question how far the ...
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Стр. 254 - Canada, acceding to this confederation, and joining in the measures of the United States, shall be admitted into, and entitled to all the advantages of this Union. But no other colony shall be admitted into the same, unless such admission be agreed to by nine states.
Стр. 203 - He has refused for a long time, after such dissolutions, to cause others to be elected; whereby the Legislative Powers, incapable of Annihilation, have returned to the People at large for their exercise; the State remaining in the mean time exposed to all the dangers of invasion from without, and convulsions within.
Стр. 50 - Parliament assembled, had, hath, and of right ought to have, full Power and Authority to make Laws and Statutes of sufficient Force and Validity to bind the Colonies and People of America, Subjects of the Crown of Great Britain, in all cases whatsoever.
Стр. 248 - Full faith and credit shall be given in each of these States to the records, acts, and judicial proceedings, of the courts and magistrates of every other State.
Стр. 147 - Magnanimity in politics is not seldom the truest wisdom, and a great empire and little minds go ill together.
Стр. 253 - ... appointing all officers of the land forces in the service of the United States, excepting regimental officers; appointing all the officers of the naval forces, and commissioning all officers whatever in the service of the United States; making rules for the government and regulation of the said land and naval forces, and directing their operations. The United States in Congress assembled shall have authority to appoint a committee to sit in the recess of Congress, to be denominated "a committee...
Стр. 161 - Nothing. We have held the subject up in every light of which it is capable; but it has been all in vain. Shall we resort to entreaty and humble supplication? What terms shall we find, which have not been already exhausted? Let us not, I beseech you, sir, deceive ourselves longer. Sir, we have done everything that could be done, to avert the storm which is now coming on. We have petitioned; we have remonstrated; we have supplicated; we have prostrated ourselves before the throne, and have implored...
Стр. 175 - O ! ye that love mankind ! Ye that dare oppose not only the tyranny but the tyrant, stand forth ! Every spot of the old world is overrun with oppression. Freedom hath been hunted round the Globe. Asia and Africa have long expelled her. Europe regards her like a stranger, and England hath given her warning to depart. O ! receive the fugitive, and prepare in time an asylum for mankind.
Стр. 114 - I propose, by removing the ground of the difference, and by restoring the former unsuspecting confidence of the colonies in the mother country, to give permanent satisfaction to your people ; and (far from a scheme of ruling by discord) to reconcile them to each other in the same act, and by the bond of the very same interest which reconciles them to British government.
Стр. 114 - The proposition is peace. Not peace through the medium of war; not peace to be hunted through the labyrinth of intricate and endless negotiations; not peace to arise out of universal discord fomented from principle in all parts of the empire; not peace to depend on the juridical determination of perplexing questions, or the precise marking the shadowy boundaries of a complex government. It is simple peace, sought in its natural course and in its ordinary haunts. It is peace sought in the spirit of...