We Hold These Truths: Documents of American DemocracyStuart Gerry Brown Harper & brothers, 1941 - 351 páginas |
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Página 183
... Texas , under pledges , absolute pledges , to the slave interest , and they afterwards lent their aid in bringing in ... Texas . They would not have that vote any other way than as it stood ; and they would have it as it did stand . I ...
... Texas , under pledges , absolute pledges , to the slave interest , and they afterwards lent their aid in bringing in ... Texas . They would not have that vote any other way than as it stood ; and they would have it as it did stand . I ...
Página 188
... Texas , with slave territory , into this Union . The project went on . I was then out of Congress . The annexa- tion resolutions passed on the 1st of March , 1845 ; the legislature of Texas complied with the conditions and accepted the ...
... Texas , with slave territory , into this Union . The project went on . I was then out of Congress . The annexa- tion resolutions passed on the 1st of March , 1845 ; the legislature of Texas complied with the conditions and accepted the ...
Página 190
... Texas are to be ad- mitted , they have a right by legal stipulation and contract , to come in as slave States . Now , as to California and New Mexico , I hold slavery to be excluded from those territories by a law even superior to that ...
... Texas are to be ad- mitted , they have a right by legal stipulation and contract , to come in as slave States . Now , as to California and New Mexico , I hold slavery to be excluded from those territories by a law even superior to that ...
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The Meaning of Democracy | 9 |
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN The Albany Plan of Union 1754 | 18 |
THOMAS PAINE Appendix to Common Sense 1776 | 34 |
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