 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.  The Writings of Thomas Jefferson: 1816-1826 - Página 43por Thomas Jefferson - 1899Visualização integral - Acerca deste livro
 | Thomas Jefferson - 1829 - 1102 páginas
...levy county and poor rates, and administer all the matters of common interest to the whole county. These wards, called townships in New England, are...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 páginas
...levy county and poor rates, and administer all the matters of common interest to the whole county. These wards, called townships in New England, are...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 páginas
...levy county and poor rates, and administer all the matters of common interest to the whole county. These wards, called townships in New England, are...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 páginas
...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 - 758 páginas
...levy county and poor rates, and administer all the matters of common interest to the whole county. These wards, called townships in New England, are...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 - 760 páginas
...poor rates, and administer all the matters of common interest to the whole county. These wards, colled townships in New England, are the vital principle...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 páginas
...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 páginas
...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 páginas
...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 páginas
...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... | |
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