The Colonies of England: A Plan for the Government of Some Portion of Our Colonial Possessions"Chiefly British North America, but New Zealand 'not of a size to need more than one Provincial Government'--p. 164-5"--Bagnall. |
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Page vi
... Congress of the United States of America in this particular . In one instance , however , I propose to depart very widely from the plan that Congress adopts ; iv PREFACE .
... Congress of the United States of America in this particular . In one instance , however , I propose to depart very widely from the plan that Congress adopts ; iv PREFACE .
Page vii
... Congress adopts ; and I do so , because I believe our own more favourable position enables us to do once for all , what Congress does upon every occasion of establishing a new TERRI- TORY and STATE . Upon the formation of such new ...
... Congress adopts ; and I do so , because I believe our own more favourable position enables us to do once for all , what Congress does upon every occasion of establishing a new TERRI- TORY and STATE . Upon the formation of such new ...
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... CONGRESS AS TO WASTE LANDS- STATES - AN ORDINANCE QUOTED TERRITORIES - GENERAL CONCLUSIONS . HA AVING thus rapidly described the one scheme of colonization to which at the outset I alluded , I now proceed to the exposition of the second ...
... CONGRESS AS TO WASTE LANDS- STATES - AN ORDINANCE QUOTED TERRITORIES - GENERAL CONCLUSIONS . HA AVING thus rapidly described the one scheme of colonization to which at the outset I alluded , I now proceed to the exposition of the second ...
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... , of the difficulties which lay in the way of congress , when forming their colonial systems - a difficulty which England has escaped hitherto . * I am not now speaking of what England achieved 76 GENERAL DESCRIPTION OF.
... , of the difficulties which lay in the way of congress , when forming their colonial systems - a difficulty which England has escaped hitherto . * I am not now speaking of what England achieved 76 GENERAL DESCRIPTION OF.
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... Congress in the October session of 1779 . But this delicate question was happily settled by a voluntary cession from Virginia to the United States of the country in dispute , on certain conditions ; and the territory thus ceded ...
... Congress in the October session of 1779 . But this delicate question was happily settled by a voluntary cession from Virginia to the United States of the country in dispute , on certain conditions ; and the territory thus ceded ...
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