The Essential JeffersonHackett Publishing, 2006 M03 15 - 328 páginas Through substantial selections from Jefferson's writings--including his earliest writings, Notes on Virginia, and key public papers and personal correspondence--this volume traces the development of his thinking on such fundamental issues as republicanism, constitutionalism, slavery, and the separation of religion from politics. Footnotes identify Jefferson's correspondents and provide useful context. |
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... colonies. As a good Whig, Jefferson acknowledged that the Glorious Revolution of 1688 shifted sovereignty away from the Crown to Parliament in England, but he denied that the Revolution Settlement gave Parliament any power to tax the ...
... colonies. As a good Whig, Jefferson acknowledged that the Glorious Revolution of 1688 shifted sovereignty away from the Crown to Parliament in England, but he denied that the Revolution Settlement gave Parliament any power to tax the ...
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... colonies had become established on a firm and permanent footing. That then, indeed, having become valuable to Great Britain for her commercial purposes, his parliament was pleased to lend them assistance against an enemy, who would ...
... colonies had become established on a firm and permanent footing. That then, indeed, having become valuable to Great Britain for her commercial purposes, his parliament was pleased to lend them assistance against an enemy, who would ...
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... colonies having thought proper to continue the administration of their government in the name and under the authority of his majesty king Charles the first, whom, notwithstanding his late deposition by the commonwealth of England, they ...
... colonies having thought proper to continue the administration of their government in the name and under the authority of his majesty king Charles the first, whom, notwithstanding his late deposition by the commonwealth of England, they ...
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... colonies. The act of the 9th of Anne for establishing a post office in America seems to have had little connection ... colonies and plantations in America, &c.” One other act,† passed in the 5th year of his reign, intitled “An act for ...
... colonies. The act of the 9th of Anne for establishing a post office in America seems to have had little connection ... colonies and plantations in America, &c.” One other act,† passed in the 5th year of his reign, intitled “An act for ...
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... colonies have already protested. That these are the acts of power, assumed by a body of men, foreign to our constitutions, and unacknowledged by our laws, against which we do, on behalf of the inhabitants of British America, enter this ...
... colonies have already protested. That these are the acts of power, assumed by a body of men, foreign to our constitutions, and unacknowledged by our laws, against which we do, on behalf of the inhabitants of British America, enter this ...
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