A Compendium of the History of the United States from the Earliest Settlements to 1883W.J. Duffie, 1891 - 525 pages |
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... River St. Lawrence now known as British America , were first occupied by them . They also planted the colony of Louisiana , and built the city of New Orleans , near the mouth of the Mississippi . From the CHAPTER II . - 1 . What nations ...
... River St. Lawrence now known as British America , were first occupied by them . They also planted the colony of Louisiana , and built the city of New Orleans , near the mouth of the Mississippi . From the CHAPTER II . - 1 . What nations ...
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... River to Newfoundland . The region between the Potomac and the Hudson Rivers was to be neutral ground , on which the companies were at liberty to form settlements within fifty miles of their respective boundaries . 7. By the London ...
... River to Newfoundland . The region between the Potomac and the Hudson Rivers was to be neutral ground , on which the companies were at liberty to form settlements within fifty miles of their respective boundaries . 7. By the London ...
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... River , a branch of the James . They were attacked by Indians about thirty miles above the junction of the two rivers . His companions were slain , and he was made prisoner . 5. He had the great good fortune to persuade his captors that ...
... River , a branch of the James . They were attacked by Indians about thirty miles above the junction of the two rivers . His companions were slain , and he was made prisoner . 5. He had the great good fortune to persuade his captors that ...
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... River to Cape Cod . This map he presented to the king's son , Charles ( who became Charles I. ) , and who gave to the coun- try the name of New England , though it lay within the lim- its of the Plymouth grant , designated as North ...
... River to Cape Cod . This map he presented to the king's son , Charles ( who became Charles I. ) , and who gave to the coun- try the name of New England , though it lay within the lim- its of the Plymouth grant , designated as North ...
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... river , where Henrico and other new settlements were made . Sir Thomas Gates also brought over a number of cows , goats , and swine , now for the first time introduced into the New World . many were there six months afterwards ? What ...
... river , where Henrico and other new settlements were made . Sir Thomas Gates also brought over a number of cows , goats , and swine , now for the first time introduced into the New World . many were there six months afterwards ? What ...
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A Compendium of the History of the United States from the Earliest ... Alexander Hamilton Stephens No preview available - 2016 |
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Page 498 - No state shall lay any imposts or duties, which may interfere with any stipulations in treaties, entered into by the United States in congress assembled, with any king, prince or state, in pursuance of any treaties already proposed by congress, to the courts of France and Spain.
Page 499 - ... among the acts of congress, for the security of the parties concerned : provided, that every commissioner, before he sits in judgment, shall take an oath, to be administered by one of the judges of the supreme or superior court of the state, where the cause shall be tried, 'well and truly to hear and determine the matter in question, according to the best of his judgment, without favor, affection, or hope of reward :' provided, also, that no state shall be deprived of territory for the benefit...
Page 499 - ... that no treaty of commerce shall be made whereby the legislative power of the respective states shall be restrained from imposing such imposts and duties on foreigners, as their own people are subjected to, or from prohibiting the exportation or importation of any species of goods or commodities whatsoever...
Page 500 - The United States, in Congress assembled, shall also have the sole and exclusive right and power of regulating the alloy and value of coin struck by their own authority, or by that of the respective states...
Page 501 - And the articles of this confederation shall be inviolably observed by every State, and the Union shall be perpetual ; nor shall any alteration at any time hereafter be made in any of them ; unless such alteration be agreed to in a Congress of the United States, and be afterwards confirmed by the Legislatures of every State.
Page 509 - 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 500 - The United States, in Congress assembled, shall have authority to appoint a committee to sit in the recess of Congress, to be denominated a "Committee of the States," and to consist of one delegate from each State; and to appoint such other committees and civil officers as may be necessary for managing the general affairs of the United States under their direction...
Page 497 - Full faith and credit shall be given in each of these states to the records, acts, and judicial proceedings, of the courts and magistrates of every other state.
Page 514 - 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...
Page 509 - No person held to service or labour in one State, under the laws thereof, escaping into another, shall, in consequence of any law or regulation therein, be discharged from such service or labour, but shall be delivered up on claim of the party to whom such service or labour may be due. Section 3. New States may be admitted by the Congress into this Union; but no new State shall be formed or erected within the jurisdiction of any other State ; nor any State be formed by the junction of two or more...