Biography of the Signers to the Declaration of Independence, Volume 7R. W. Pomeroy, 1827 |
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... elected , on the twenty - seventh of March , 1775 , one of the members to represent the pro- vince of Virginia , in the general congress of the confede- rated colonics , already assembled at Philadelphia . When about to leave the colony ...
... elected , on the twenty - seventh of March , 1775 , one of the members to represent the pro- vince of Virginia , in the general congress of the confede- rated colonics , already assembled at Philadelphia . When about to leave the colony ...
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... elected a delegate from Virginia , to the third congress . During the winter , his name appears very frequently on the journals of that assembly , and we find him con- stantly taking an active part , in the principal matters which ...
... elected a delegate from Virginia , to the third congress . During the winter , his name appears very frequently on the journals of that assembly , and we find him con- stantly taking an active part , in the principal matters which ...
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... 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 danger of invasion from without , and convulsions ...
... 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 danger of invasion from without , and convulsions ...
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... elected a delegate to congress , but in Octo- ber following , he resigned his situation in that body , and was succeeded by Benjamin Harrison . The object which now chiefly engaged him was the improvement of the civil government of ...
... elected a delegate to congress , but in Octo- ber following , he resigned his situation in that body , and was succeeded by Benjamin Harrison . The object which now chiefly engaged him was the improvement of the civil government of ...
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... elected to fill that office . The time was one at which its duties had become arduous and difficult ; it was at that period of the war , when the British government , exasperated by the long protraction of hostilities , and goaded by ...
... elected to fill that office . The time was one at which its duties had become arduous and difficult ; it was at that period of the war , when the British government , exasperated by the long protraction of hostilities , and goaded by ...
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Halaman 102 - 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.
Halaman 103 - Equal and exact justice to all men, of whatever state or persuasion, religious or political; peace, commerce, and honest friendship with all nations, entangling alliances with none; the support of the State governments in all their rights, as the most competent administrations for our domestic concerns and the surest bulwarks against anti-republican tendencies; the preservation of the general government in its whole constitutional vigor, as the sheet anchor of our peace at home and safety abroad...
Halaman 104 - These principles form the bright constellation which has gone before us, and guided our steps through an age of revolution and reformation. The wisdom of our sages and blood of our heroes have been devoted to their attainment.
Halaman 35 - 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...
Halaman 103 - ... freedom of religion; freedom of the press, and freedom of person under the protection of the habeas corpus, and trial by juries impartially selected. These principles form the bright constellation which has gone before us and guided our steps through an age of revolution and reformation.
Halaman 33 - 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...
Halaman 309 - That the inhabitants of the English colonies in North America, by the immutable laws of nature, the principles of the English Constitution, and the several charters or compacts, have the following rights : Resolved, NCD 1.
Halaman 28 - But when a long train of abuses and usurpations [begun at a distinguished period and] pursuing invariably the same object, evinces a design to reduce them under absolute despotism, it is their right, it is their duty to throw off such government, and to provide new guards for their future security.
Halaman 306 - Whereas, since the close of the last war, the British parliament, claiming a power, of right, to bind the people of America by statutes in all cases whatsoever, hath, in some acts, expressly imposed taxes on them, and in others, under various pretences, but in fact for the purpose of raising a revenue, hath imposed rates and duties payable in these colonies...