| John Burk - Virginia - 1816 - 574 pages
...Committee be appointed to prepare a declaration of rights, and such a plwn of Government as will he most likely to maintain peace and order in this Colony, and secure substantial and equal liberty <o the people." Excites uni- This decisive step was productive of incalculable bcncverealjoy. fl^ It... | |
| Hezekiah Niles - United States - 1822 - 518 pages
...committee bs> appointed to prep. re A DECLARATION ()!•' RIGHTS, and such a pUn of government as will be most likely to maintain peace and order in this colony, and secure substantial »ml equal liberty to the people. EDMUND PENÜLETON, pendent. (л СОРТ) JOH» TAZKWÎLÏ,, clerk... | |
| Grenville Mellen - United States - 1839 - 934 pages
...a committee be appointed to prepare a declaration of rights, and such a plan of government as will be most likely to maintain peace and order in this...secure substantial and equal liberty to the people.' t * Fitkin's Political and Civil History, vol. ip 361. Early in the year the British government had... | |
| United States - 1842 - 498 pages
...a committee be appointed to prepare a declaration of rights, and such a plan of government, as will be most likely to maintain peace and order in this...secure substantial and equal liberty to the people. of government, " one people." The sovrrtiynty over them was in the British crown ; but that sovereignty... | |
| Henry St. George Tucker - Constitutional law - 1843 - 256 pages
...a committee be appointed to prepare a declaration of rights, and such a plan of government, as will be most likely to maintain peace and order in this...secure substantial and equal liberty to the people. " And a committee was appointed of the following gentlemen : Mr. Archibald Gary, Mr. Meriwether Smith,... | |
| Grenville Mellen - United States - 1843 - 866 pages
...a committee be appointed to prepare a declaration of rights, and such a plan of government as will be most likely to maintain peace and order in this...colony, and secure substantial and equal liberty to the people.'t « Pitkin's Political and Civil History, vol. ip 361. Early in the year the Briiiah government... | |
| Robert Reid Howison - Virginia - 1848 - 542 pages
...committee should be appointed to prepare a declaration of rights, and " Such a plan of government as will be most likely to maintain peace and order in this...secure substantial and equal liberty to the people." Thus the Convention entered upon the work, chiefly for which they believed themselves to have been... | |
| History, Modern - 1849 - 626 pages
...a committee be appointed to prepare a declaration Of rights, and such a plan of government, as will be most likely to maintain peace and order in this...secure substantial and equal liberty to the people.' " It is impossible to contemplate this proceeding on the part of Virginia, without being convinced... | |
| William Maxwell - Virginia - 1850 - 506 pages
...revolution, when, on the discontinuance of assemblies, in consequence of THE VIRGINIA HISTORICAL REGISTER. 31 the withdrawal and subsequent hostilities of Lord...which also was amply discussed, and on the 29th of 32 THE VIRGINIA HISTORICAL REGISTER. the same month, unanimously adopted as the Constitution of ihe... | |
| William Wirt - Founding Fathers of the United States - 1850 - 314 pages
...a committee be appointed to prepare A DECLARATION OF RIGHTS, and such a plan of government as will be most likely to maintain peace and order in this...colony, and secure substantial and equal liberty to Jhe people." This measure was followed by the most lively demonstrations of joy. The spirit of the... | |
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