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James Kent, Commentaries on American Law, vol. 3 (New York: O. Halsted, 1828), 308–313, https://hdl.handle.net/2027/nyp.33433008580569. The history and grounds of the claims of the European governments and of the United
Joseph Story, Commentaries on the Constitution of the United States, 2 vols., 5th ed., ed. Melville M. Bigelow (Boston: Little, Brown, 1905), vol. 1, book 1, 6–8, https://www.google.com/books/edition/Commentaries_on_the_Constitution_of_the/2oFKAAAAYAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=0. § 2.
PETITION, MAY 2, 1817 The Cherokee ladies now being present at the meeting of the chiefs and warriors in council have thought it their duty as mothers to address their
Samuel Occom, Autobiography, https://collections.dartmouth.edu/occom/html/normalized/768517-normalized.html. From the Time of Our Reformation till I Left Mr. Wheelock’s When I was 16 years of age, we heard a strange rumor among the English
Source: Julia B. McGillycuddy, McGillycuddy, Agent: A Biography of Dr. Valentine T. McGillycuddy (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1941), 258–260, 271–272. In the autumn of 1890 obvious restlessness prevailed among the
Whereas, The great precept of nature is conceded to be that “man shall pursue his own true and substantial happiness.”1 Blackstone in his Commentaries remarks that this law of Nature
June 11 … Mr. SHERMAN1 proposed that the proportion of suffrage in the first branch2 should be according to the respective numbers of free inhabitants; and that in the second
DEAR SON: I have ever had pleasure in obtaining any little anecdotes of my ancestors. You may remember the inquiries I made among the remains of my relations when you
