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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... common people are now setting out . Ours could not have been so fairly placed under the control of the common sense of the people , had they not been separated from their parent stock , and kept from contamination , either from them ...
... common people are now setting out . Ours could not have been so fairly placed under the control of the common sense of the people , had they not been separated from their parent stock , and kept from contamination , either from them ...
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... common sense and common right . They came back impressed with these . The press , notwithstanding its shackles , began to disseminate them ; conversation , too , assumed new freedom ; politics became the theme of all societies , male ...
... common sense and common right . They came back impressed with these . The press , notwithstanding its shackles , began to disseminate them ; conversation , too , assumed new freedom ; politics became the theme of all societies , male ...
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... common legislature . Among other arguments I urge that the convention which formed the constitution had been chosen merely for ordinary legislation ; that they had no higher power than every subsequent legislature was to have ; that all ...
... common legislature . Among other arguments I urge that the convention which formed the constitution had been chosen merely for ordinary legislation ; that they had no higher power than every subsequent legislature was to have ; that all ...
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