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... duties and title of lieutenant governor . After a few months a royal governor was sent over ; and Leisler was found guilty of high treason and executed , though it is difficult to see that he had been guilty of a crime . The new royal ...
... duties and title of lieutenant governor . After a few months a royal governor was sent over ; and Leisler was found guilty of high treason and executed , though it is difficult to see that he had been guilty of a crime . The new royal ...
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... duties on the trade from one colony to another . This was the first act of Parlia- ment for taxing the colonies . In 1696 a more thorough- going navigation act was passed by Parliament and a new colonial council was created by King ...
... duties on the trade from one colony to another . This was the first act of Parlia- ment for taxing the colonies . In 1696 a more thorough- going navigation act was passed by Parliament and a new colonial council was created by King ...
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... duties on their importation . The slave traffic was con- nected with the manufacture of rum , which was carried to Africa to be exchanged for slaves ; part of the. DECK PLANS OF A SLAVER . BENJAMIN FRANKLIN , ABOUT 1780 . From a portrait ...
... duties on their importation . The slave traffic was con- nected with the manufacture of rum , which was carried to Africa to be exchanged for slaves ; part of the. DECK PLANS OF A SLAVER . BENJAMIN FRANKLIN , ABOUT 1780 . From a portrait ...
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... duties laid by the home government in colonial ports , to give some control over the movements of ships , were so evaded that it cost £ 7000 a year to collect £ 2000 . To prevent the rise of new manufactures the British ( 1750 ) ...
... duties laid by the home government in colonial ports , to give some control over the movements of ships , were so evaded that it cost £ 7000 a year to collect £ 2000 . To prevent the rise of new manufactures the British ( 1750 ) ...
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... duties , and other duties , in the British colonies and plantations in America , toward further defraying the ex- penses of defending , protecting , and securing the same . " The duties were to be imposed on all sorts of legal documents ...
... duties , and other duties , in the British colonies and plantations in America , toward further defraying the ex- penses of defending , protecting , and securing the same . " The duties were to be imposed on all sorts of legal documents ...
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Page xix - ... 3. The trial of all crimes, except in cases of impeachment, shall be by jury ; and such trial shall be held in the state where the said crimes shall have been committed ; but when not committed within any state, the trial shall be at such place or places as the congress may by law have directed.
Page 92 - I thank God, there are no free schools nor printing, and I hope we shall not have these hundred years; for learning has brought disobedience, and heresy, and sects into the world, and printing has divulged them, and libels against the best government. God keep us from both!
Page xx - The Congress shall have Power to dispose of and make all needful 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 Government, and shall protect each of them against Invasion, and on Application of the Legislature, or of the Executive...
Page xiv - They shall, in all cases except treason, felony and breach of the peace, be privileged from arrest during their attendance at the session of their respective houses, and in going to and returning from the same; and for any speech or debate in either house they shall not be questioned in any other place.
Page xxvi - ... the United States, in time of actual armed rebellion against the authority and government of the United States, and as a fit and necessary war measure for suppressing said rebellion, do, on this first day of January, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-three...
Page xiii - Term of ten Years, in such Manner as they shall by Law direct. The Number of Representatives shall not exceed one for every thirty Thousand, but each State shall have at Least one Representative; and until such enumeration shall be made, the State of New Hampshire shall be entitled to chuse three, Massachusetts eight, Rhode-Island and Providence Plantations one, Connecticut five, New-York six, New Jersey four, Pennsylvania eight, Delaware one, Maryland six, Virginia ten, North Carolina five, South...
Page 407 - Our new government is founded upon exactly the opposite ideas ; its foundations are laid, its corner-stone rests upon the great truth that the negro is not equal to the white man; that slavery, subordination to the superior race, is his natural and normal condition.
Page xix - ... 2. A person charged in any state with treason, felony, or other crime, who shall flee from justice, and be found in another state, shall, on demand of the executive authority of the state from which he fled, be delivered up, to be removed to the state having jurisdiction of the crime.
Page xvi - ... 2 The privilege of the writ of habeas corpus shall not be suspended, unless when in cases of rebellion or invasion the public safety may require it. 3 No bill of attainder or ex post facto law shall be passed. 4 No capitation, or other direct tax, shall be laid, unless in proportion to the census or enumeration herein before directed to be taken.
Page 264 - The day that France takes possession of New Orleans, fixes the sentence which is to restrain her forever within her low-water mark. It seals the union of two nations, who, in conjunction, can maintain exclusive possession of the ocean. From that moment, we must marry ourselves to the British fleet and nation.