 | Colin Bonwick - 1991 - 354 pàgines
...the exigencies of their affairs have been hitherto established, to adopt such government as shall, in the opinion of the representatives of the people,...and safety of their constituents in particular and America in general.' Such directions were all but equivalent to a declaration of independence, but... | |
 | Richard L. Bushman - 1992 - 298 pàgines
...the exigencies of their affairs have been hitherto established, to adopt such a government as shall, in the opinion of the representatives of the people,...and safety of their constituents in particular, and America in general. The explosive power of the preamble lay in its evocation of the terms of the ancient... | |
 | John Franklin Jameson - 1993 - 470 pàgines
...to the exigencies of their affairs hath been hitherto established, to adopt such government as shall in the opinion of the representatives of the people...and safety of their constituents in particular and America in general." As a rule it was upon this advice that the colonies proceeded to frame for themselves... | |
 | Charles S. Hyneman - 1994 - 332 pàgines
...the exigencies of their affairs have been hitherto established, to adopt such government as shall, in the opinion of the representatives of the people,...and safety of their constituents in particular, and America in general."8 America's Loyalists who aspired to put their opposition to independence on a... | |
 | Jean Butenhoff Lee - 1994 - 428 pàgines
...Continental Congress recommended that the colonies provide for themselves "such government as shall . . . best conduce to the happiness and safety of their constituents in particular, and America in general." The Maryland delegation, whose instructions did not encompass such a fateful step,... | |
 | Gordon S. Wood, Louise G. Wood - 1995 - 316 pàgines
...respective assemblies and conventions of the United Colonies . . . [should] adopt such government as shall, in the opinion of the representatives of the people,...and safety of their constituents in particular, and America in general."31 29. Adams. The American Enlightenment, ed. Koch, 252. 30. Robert E. Brown, Middle-Class... | |
 | St. George Tucker, William Blackstone - 2000 - 3301 pàgines
...where no government sufficient to " the exigencies of their affairs had been theretofore established, to adopt such " government, as should, in the opinion...to the happiness and safety of their constituents, m particular, " and America in general. Journals ot Congress, May 15, 1776." f Journal of the Convention.... | |
 | Charles Penrose Keith - 1997 - 650 pàgines
...where no government sufficient to the exigencies of their affairs had been previously established, to adopt such government as should in the opinion...the representatives of the people best conduce to their happiness and safety. This was the death-blow to Proprietary authority. A public meeting sent... | |
 | Richard N. Rosenfeld - 1998 - 1012 pàgines
...the exigencies of their affairs have been hitherto established, to adopt such government as shall, in the opinion of the representatives of the people,...and safety of their constituents in particular, and America in general.79'1 Sunday, May 12, 1776. Today, John Adams writes his friend Massachusetts political... | |
 | Benjamin Lewis Price - 1999 - 264 pàgines
...American people. The committee resolved that governments be established in the colonies "as shall, in the opinion of the representatives of the people,...to the happiness and safety of their constituents, and America in general."7 By the spring of 1776 popular support for breaking ties with Great Britain... | |
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That it be recommended to the respective assemblies and conventions of the united colonies, where no government sufficient to the exigencies of their affairs has been hitherto established to adopt such government as shall, in the opinion of the representatives... 
