 | Thomas Jefferson - 1829 - 1102 Seiten
...administer all the matters of common interest to the whole county. These wards, called townships in New England, are the vital principle of their governments,...federal republic, for all concerns foreign and federal ; & that of the State, for what relates to our own citizens exclusively ; 3. the county republics,... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson - 1829 - 662 Seiten
...administer all the matters of common interest to the whole county. These wards, called townships in New England, are the vital principle of their governments,...federal republic, for all concerns foreign and federal ; 6. that of the State, for what relates to our own citizens exclusively ; 3. the county republics,... | |
 | Virginia. Constitutional Convention - 1830 - 932 Seiten
...administer all the matters of common interest to the whole county. These wards, called townships in New England, are the vital principle of their Governments,...preservation. We should thus marshal our Government into, first, the general Federal Republic, for all concerns foreign and Federal ; second, thai of the State,... | |
 | John Howard Hinton - 1850 - 1008 Seiten
...Jefferson says, — " The townships of New England are the vital principles of their governments, and hare proved themselves the wisest invention ever devised...of self-government, and for its preservation."— Correspondence, vol. iv. p. 297. citizens, or against citizens of other states, or aliens. In these... | |
 | Henry Stephens Randall - 1858 - 760 Seiten
...administer all the matters of common interest to the whole county. These wards, colled townships in New England, are the vital principle of their governments,...the perfect exercise of self-government, and for its preservation.1 We should thus marshal our Government into, 1. The general Federal republic, for all... | |
 | Henry Stephens Randall - 1858 - 764 Seiten
...administer all tho matters of common interest to the whole county. These wards, called townships in Xew England, are the vital principle of their governments,...the perfect exercise of self-government, and for its preservation.1 We should thus marshal our Government into, 1. The general Federal republic, for all... | |
 | Henry Stephens Randall - 1858 - 766 Seiten
...the matters of common interest to the whole county. These wards, called townships in New England, arc the vital principle of their governments, and have...the perfect exercise of self-government, and for its preservation.1 We should thus marshal our Government into, 1. The general Federal republic, for all... | |
 | Henry Stephens Randall - 1858 - 916 Seiten
...called townships in v England, are the vital principle of their governments, and have proved them•es the wisest invention ever devised by the wit of man for the perfect exercise of -government, and for its preservation.1 We should thus marshal our Government >, 1. The general Federal... | |
 | 1902 - 334 Seiten
...natural counterpart in the General Court and the town meeting, which Thomas Jefferson rightly called "the wisest invention ever devised by the wit of man for the perfect exercise of self-government and its preservation." Yet this liberty was not anarchy unchecked, nor a Utopia that overlooked the selfish... | |
 | Edward Alfred Pollard - 1868 - 226 Seiten
...proposing certain changes in the Constitution of Virginia he wrote : " These wards, called townships in New England, are the vital principle of their governments,...exercise of self-government and for its preservation. We shall thus marshal our Government into, 1. The general Federal republic, for all concerns foreign and... | |
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These wards, called townships in New England, are the vital principle of their governments, and have proved themselves the wisest invention ever devised by the wit of man for the perfect exercise of self-government, and for its preservation. 
