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, Том 1C. Knight, 1837 - 4 страница |
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... Bill of Rights to La Fayette . Visits Ver- sailles almost daily . Connexion of Lake Erie with the Ohio . Views of the French Revolution . Titular distinctions in the United States . The doctrine that one generation cannot bind another ...
... Bill of Rights to La Fayette . Visits Ver- sailles almost daily . Connexion of Lake Erie with the Ohio . Views of the French Revolution . Titular distinctions in the United States . The doctrine that one generation cannot bind another ...
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... Bill . Mr. Jefferson advises the President to nega- tive it . Conversation with the President on his proposed retire- ment . Causes of the public discontents . The power to promote the general welfare . Collision between Jefferson and ...
... Bill . Mr. Jefferson advises the President to nega- tive it . Conversation with the President on his proposed retire- ment . Causes of the public discontents . The power to promote the general welfare . Collision between Jefferson and ...
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... bills of exchange on the credit of future crops , while their factors in the colony took care in season to make the debt safe by a mortgage on the lands and slaves of the planter . Some idea of the pecuniary thraldom to which the ...
... bills of exchange on the credit of future crops , while their factors in the colony took care in season to make the debt safe by a mortgage on the lands and slaves of the planter . Some idea of the pecuniary thraldom to which the ...
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... Bill . Members of Assembly enter into articles of Association . Propose a General Congress . First Convention in Virginia . His vindication . of the rights of America . Proceedings of the Convention - choose Deputies to a General ...
... Bill . Members of Assembly enter into articles of Association . Propose a General Congress . First Convention in Virginia . His vindication . of the rights of America . Proceedings of the Convention - choose Deputies to a General ...
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... bill , by the provisions of which that town was to be cut off from all foreign trade after the 1st of June , 1774 , as a punishment for its destruction of the tea in the December preceding . This act having reached Virginia while the ...
... bill , by the provisions of which that town was to be cut off from all foreign trade after the 1st of June , 1774 , as a punishment for its destruction of the tea in the December preceding . This act having reached Virginia while the ...
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