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- Historic Document · May 29, 2012Charter Of Massachusetts Bay
said islands, rivers, ports, havens, waters, fishing, mines, and minerals, jurisdictions, franchises, royalties, liberties, privileges, commodities, hereditaments, and premises whatsoever, with the appurtenances unto the said Sir Henry Rosewell … Whetcombe, and of others whom they have associated unto them, have, for diverse good causes and considerations, us moving, granted and confirmed, and by these presents of our especial grace
- Historic Document · May 29, 2012The Third Virginia Charter
said Companie and shall have, hold and enjoie all and singuler freedoms, liberties, franchises, privi-ledges, immunities, benefitts, profitts and commodities, whatso-ever, to the said Companie in anie sort … shall thinke meete for the examina-cion or clearing of the truith in anie cause whatsoever con-cerninge the said plantacion or anie business from thence proceeding or there unto
- Historic Document · May 29, 2012The Second Virginia Charter
graunt them a further enlargement and explanacion of the said graunte, priviledge and liberties, and that suche counsellors and other officers maie be appointed amonngest them to manage and direct … Tresorer for the tyme beinge to be sick, or to have anie such cause of absente from the cittie of London as shalbe allowed by the said Counsell
- Historic Document · May 29, 2012The Settlement of Jamestown
continual labor in the extremity of the heat had so weakened us, as were cause sufficient to have made us as miserable in our native country, or any other place … only diverted them from surprising the fort, but procured his own liberty, and got himself and his company such estimation among them, that those savages admired him more than their
- Historic Document · May 29, 2012The First Virginia Charter
saide Colonies shall have a Counsell which shall governe and order all matters and causes which shall arise, growe, or happen to or within the same severall Colonies, according … precincts of the said severall Colonies and plantacions shall have and enjoy all liberties, franchises and immunites within anie of our other dominions to all intents and purposes
- Historic Document · May 29, 2012The Augsburg Confession
what we have already done, that we will all appear and defend our cause in such a general, free Christian Council, for the convening of which there has always been … Free Will. Of Free Will they teach that man’s will has some liberty to choose civil righteousness, and to work things subject to reason. But it has no power
- Historic Document · May 29, 2012Address to a Joint Session of Congress and the American People
friend than Great Britain. (Applause.) Once again, we are joined together in a great cause — so honored the British Prime Minister has crossed an ocean to show his unity … this will not be an age of terror; this will be an age of liberty, here and across the world. (Applause.) Great harm has been done to us. We have
- Historic Document · May 29, 2012Address at Cooper Institute, New York City
other of the four — James McHenry — voted against the prohibition, showing that, for some cause, he thought it improper to vote for it. In 1787, still before the Constitution … upon the fifth amendment, which provides that no person shall be deprived of “life, liberty or property without due process of law;” while Senator Douglas and his peculiar adherents plant
- Historic Document · May 29, 2012The Death of John Brown
liberties left to us! Surely between freemen, who believe in exact justice and impartial liberty, and slave-holders, who are for cleaving down all human rights at a blow … whether she will hear or forbear, let us renew our pledges to the cause of bleeding humanity, and spare no effort to make this truly the land of the free
- Historic Document · May 29, 2012Dred Scott v. Sandford
trial, the plaintiff filed the following bill of exceptions. On the trial of this cause by the jury, the plaintiff, to maintain the issues on his part, read … deprived of life, liberty, and property, without due process of law. And an act of Congress which deprives a citizen of the United States of his liberty or property, merely
- Historic Document · May 29, 2012Speech on the Repeal of the Missouri Compromise at Peoria, Illinois
sacred right” of taking slaves to Nebraska. That perfect liberty they sigh for — the liberty of making slaves of other people — Jefferson never thought of; their own father never thought … their own liberties, and institutions. And if they shall think, as I do, that the extension of slavery endangers them, more than any, or all other causes, how recreant
- Historic Document · May 29, 2012What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?
which, of all others, seems unfashionable in our day. The cause of liberty may be stabbed by the men who glory in the deeds of your fathers. But, to proceed … their lives, their fortunes, and their sacred honor, on the cause of their country. In their admiration of liberty, they lost sight of all other interests. They were peace
- Historic Document · May 29, 2012Compromise of 1850
much thereof as shall be necessary, shall be appropriated to the trial of causes arising under the said Constitution and laws; and writs of error and appeals in all such … enacted, That no citizen of the United States shall be deprived of his life, liberty, or property, in said Territory, except by the judgment of his peers and the laws
- Historic Document · May 29, 2012Seneca Falls Declaration
decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes that impel them to such a course. We hold these truths to be self-evident: that … deprive her of her liberty, and to administer chastisement. He has so framed the laws of divorce, as to what shall be the proper causes, and in case of separation
- Historic Document · May 29, 2012Henry Highland Garnet’s ‘Call to Rebellion’
LIBERTY OR DEATH. Oh what a sentence was that! It ran from soul to soul like electric fire, and nerved the arm of thousands to fight in the holy cause … image of God be obliterated from the soul, all men cherish the love of Liberty. The nice discerning political economist does not regard the sacred right more than the untutored
- Historic Document · May 29, 2012Self Reliance
agree, for the better securing of his bread to each shareholder, to surrender the liberty and culture of the eater. The virtue in most request is conformity. Self-reliance … coat of philanthropy, shall that pass? If an angry bigot assumes this bountiful cause of Abolition, and comes to me with his last news from Barbadoes, why should
- Historic Document · May 29, 2012Democracy in America, Volume II, Part B
local liberties will ever be the produce of artificial contrivance; that centralization will be the natural form of government. Chapter 4 Of Certain Peculiar and Accidental Causes which Either Lead … promote the centralization of power, but the principal cause still remains to be noticed. The foremost of the incidental causes which may draw the management of all affairs into
- Historic Document · May 29, 2012Democracy in America, Volume II, Part A
aristocracy the reverse takes place: special influences are stronger, general causes weaker — unless indeed we consider as a general cause the fact itself of the inequality of conditions, which allows … former part of this work, “The unrestrained liberty of political association cannot be entirely assimilated to the liberty of the press. The one is at the same time less necessary
- Historic Document · May 29, 2012Andrew Jackson’s Farewell Address
laid in the affections of the people; in the security it gives to life, liberty, character, and property, in every quarter of the country; and in the fraternal attachments which … their political brethren in other portions of the Union. You have no longer any cause to fear danger from abroad; your strength and power are well known throughout the civilized
- Historic Document · May 29, 2012Democracy in America, Volume I, Part B
here all set aside. Recourse must be had to some other cause; and what other cause can there be except the manners of the people? It is in the Eastern … legitimate source of all power. The same notions are entertained respecting liberty and equality, the liberty of the press, the right of association, the jury, and the responsibility