Jefferson's Letters: Selections from the Private and Political Correspondence, Telling the Story of American Independence and the Founding of the American GovernmentHale, 1939 - 374 Seiten |
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... constitution is accepted . You ask me if anything transpires here on the subject of South America ? Not a word . I know that there are com- bustible materials there , and that they wait the torch only . New Constitution TO WILLIAM ...
... constitution is accepted . You ask me if anything transpires here on the subject of South America ? Not a word . I know that there are com- bustible materials there , and that they wait the torch only . New Constitution TO WILLIAM ...
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... constitution alterable only by a special convention . Accordingly , I have not in my notes advocated that opinion , though it was and is mine , as it was and is theirs . I take that position as admitted by them , and only proceed to ...
... constitution alterable only by a special convention . Accordingly , I have not in my notes advocated that opinion , though it was and is mine , as it was and is theirs . I take that position as admitted by them , and only proceed to ...
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... Constitution TO SAMUEL KERCHEVAL . MONTICELLO , July 12 , 1816 . Where then is our republicanism to be found ? Not in our Constitution certainly , but merely in the spirit of our people . That would oblige even a despot to govern us ...
... Constitution TO SAMUEL KERCHEVAL . MONTICELLO , July 12 , 1816 . Where then is our republicanism to be found ? Not in our Constitution certainly , but merely in the spirit of our people . That would oblige even a despot to govern us ...
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