Thomas JeffersonHoughton, Mifflin, 1901 - 167 páginas |
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... constitution , and was very strong . " 66 pro- Jefferson was always the most cheerful and optimistic of men . He once said , after re- marking that something must depend “ on the chapter of events : " " I am in the habit of turning over ...
... constitution , and was very strong . " 66 pro- Jefferson was always the most cheerful and optimistic of men . He once said , after re- marking that something must depend “ on the chapter of events : " " I am in the habit of turning over ...
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... constitution of the colony , political and so- cial , was aristocratic . Both real estate and slaves descended by force of law to the eldest son , so that the great properties were kept intact . There were no townships and no town ...
... constitution of the colony , political and so- cial , was aristocratic . Both real estate and slaves descended by force of law to the eldest son , so that the great properties were kept intact . There were no townships and no town ...
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... the inconsistency was more apparent than real . At times he strictly construed , and at times he almost set aside the Constitution ; but the clue to And his conduct can usually be found in the fundamental REFORM WORK IN VIRGINIA 47.
... the inconsistency was more apparent than real . At times he strictly construed , and at times he almost set aside the Constitution ; but the clue to And his conduct can usually be found in the fundamental REFORM WORK IN VIRGINIA 47.
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... constitutions is to express the will of the people , and that the people are morally and mentally competent to govern . " I am sure , " he wrote in 1796 , " that the mass of citizens in these United States mean well , and I firmly ...
... constitutions is to express the will of the people , and that the people are morally and mentally competent to govern . " I am sure , " he wrote in 1796 , " that the mass of citizens in these United States mean well , and I firmly ...
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... constitution . There were no common schools , and the mass of the people were more ignorant and rough than their contemporaries in any other colony . Elections were scenes of bribery , intimidation , and riot , surpassing even those ...
... constitution . There were no common schools , and the mass of the people were more ignorant and rough than their contemporaries in any other colony . Elections were scenes of bribery , intimidation , and riot , surpassing even those ...
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Página 147 - Never did a prisoner, released from his chains, feel such relief as I shall on shaking off the shackles of power. Nature intended me for the tranquil pursuits of science, by rendering them my supreme delight.
Página 53 - Indeed I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just ; that his justice cannot sleep forever...
Página 109 - That the government created by this compact was not made the exclusive or final judge of the extent of the powers delegated to itself; since that would have made its discretion, and not the Constitution, the measure of its powers; but that, as in all other cases of compact among parties having no common judge, each party has an equal right to judge for itself, as well of infractions, as of the mode and measure of redress.
Página 124 - It is New Orleans, through which the produce of threeeighths of our territory must pass to market, and from its fertility it will ere long yield more than half of our whole produce and contain more than half of our inhabitants.
Página 56 - Nothing is more certainly written in the book of fate, than that these people are to be free ; nor is it less certain that the two races, equally free, cannot live in the same government.
Página 53 - The whole commerce between master and slave is a perpetual exercise of the most boisterous passions, the most unremitting despotism on the one part, and degrading submissions on the other. Our children see this, and learn to imitate it; for man is an imitative animal.
Página 158 - HERE WAS BURIED THOMAS JEFFERSON, Author of the Declaration of American Independence, Of the Statute of Virginia for Religious Freedom, And Father of the University of Virginia ; because by these, as testimonials that I have lived, I wish most to be remembered.
Página 54 - But this momentous question, like a fire-bell in the night, awakened and filled me with terror. I considered it at once as the knell of the Union.
Página 81 - Politics were the chief topic, and a preference of kingly over republican government was evidently the favorite sentiment. An apostate I could not be, nor yet a hypocrite; and I found myself for the most part the only advocate on the republican side of the question...
Página 71 - Preach, my dear sir, a crusade against ignorance; establish and improve the law for educating the common people.