History of the United States of America: From the Discovery of the Continent [to 1789], Volume 6

George Bancroft

Appleton, 1885 - United States

Contents

• IN FIVE BOOKS: 1
• Is divided by parties: 13
• The court and the legislature of Rhode Island in conflict: 14
• Madisons report of March 1781: 19
• In New York In Massachusetts: 22
• New Jersey demands for congress the power to regulate commerce: 27
• National measures of Virginia: 29
• And the vote to be counted by the senate: 35
• 17821783: 36
• Washingtons tour to the West: 46
• The unfair offers of Fox to America Jay and the slavetrade: 47
• Fox and reform The new colonial system of Great Britain: 53
• He is supported by North Carolina: 54
• CHAPTER V: 59
• The king of England invites a cordial understanding with France: 60
• Inflexibility of Washington: 68
• CHAPTER VI: 70
• Morris claims representation for property: 72
• Result of the meeting What congress did for the army News of peace: 77
• Public opinion on paper money: 78
• On interior trade On the state of Ohio: 82
• The constitution in the Delaware legislature: 84
• IION THE WAY TO A FEDERAL CONVENTION 17831787: 106
• VIRGINIA STATESMEN LEAD TOWARD A BETTER UNION: 110
• History of the clause against slavery: 118
• 17841785: 125
• Four motives to union: 126
• Honors decreed to Washington by Virginia: 132
• CHAPTER IV: 136
• The objections of Richard Henry: 144
• Report of the committee of detail: 149
• England will not treat except on the condition of a preference: 152
• Of a university No state to trespass on the rights of another state: 153
• The constitution a government by the people: 172
• CONGRESS CONFESSES ITS HELPLESSNESS: 177
• His sympathy for the Irish and the Greeks: 185
• The distribution of representation: 190
• Followed by Nathan Dane: 197
• THE Federal coNVENTION: 205
• Limited power of the delegates from Delaware: 215
• Appointment of judges: 237
• THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT OF THE UNITED STATES: 242
• The tenure of good behavior considered: 245
• Are the states in danger? The equality of the small states defended: 247
• The constitution ordered to be engrossed: 253
• THE ADJUSTMENT OF REPRESENTATION: 255
• Number of representatives: 257
• Movement against the slavetrade Two classes of slave states: 264
• THE OUTLINE OF THE CONSTITUTION COMPLETED AND REFERRED: 270
• Qualifications of membership Discrimination against the foreignborn: 272
• The small states dissatisfied The plan of Connecticut: 274
• Character of Rutledge: 276
• States not to treat with foreign powers or other states: 278
• Congress quiets the Indian title to a great part of Ohio: 285
• The universal love of union Intercitizenship: 322
• July August and September 1787: 326
• Cutler before congress Carringtons report: 340
• The mode of counting in Massachusetts preferred to that of Virginia: 341
• The choice of the president by the vote of the states negatived: 344
• Report on the federal judiciary: 348
• CHAPTER XI: 357
• CHAPTER I: 371
• Its clauses: 376
• Events overruled by justice General desire for a closer union: 377
• But amendments may be proposed in the state convention: 389
• THE CONSTITUTION IN CONNECTICUT AND MASSACHUSETTS: 393
• The slavetrade Hancock proposes resolutions: 404
• THE CONSTITUTION IN NEW HAMPSHIRE MARYLAND AND SOUTH CAROLINA: 409
• Jays negotiation with Gardoqui: 415
• His station and character: 419
• CHAPTER V: 421
• Failure of the negotiation Washington: 427
• Madison compares the British and American constitutions: 433
• THE CONSTITUTION: 441
• The United States a continental republic: 451
• 78: 452
• The committee report its approval of the constitution: 461
• Relations of America to Europe: 466
• Of John Adams: 471
• 270: 482
• 125: 483
• Debate on revenue: 484
• 87: 485
• The ratification Its form Acquiescence of the opposition: 488
• 103: 489
• 231: 492
• 39: 493
• More strength to the confederacy or an end to the union: 497
• 328: 498
• News from New Hampshire Success in New York depends on Virginia: 500
• 209: 501
• 42: 502
• 464: 503
• 127: 504
• 106: 505
• The constitution the institution of a government by the people: 507
• 57: 508
• 284: 510
• 248: 511
• 109: 512
• 129: 513
• 60: 518
• THE CONSTITUTION IN PENNSYLVANIA DELAWARE AND NEW JERSEY: 519
• 177: 520
• 466: 522
• 66: 524
• 180: 526
• 251: 529
• 469: 530
• 394: 531
• 427: 533
• 187: 535
• 261: 536
• 398: 537
• 471: 538
• 428: 539
• 85: 541
• Plan of unity through the British parliament First American congress: 544
• 349: 547
• 86: 548
• 250: 553
• 431: 555
• 357: 559
• 403: 560
• Independence and a continental convention and charter: 563
• 452: 565

Popular passages

Page 472 - Heaven itself has ordained; and since the preservation of the sacred fire of liberty, and the destiny of the republican model of government, are justly considered as .deeply, perhaps as finally staked, on the experiment intrusted to the hands of the American people.

Page 218 - Confederation, and moreover to legislate in all cases to which the separate States are incompetent, or in which the harmony of the United States may be interrupted by the exercise of individual legislation ; to negative all laws passed by the several States contravening, in the opinion of the National Legislature, the Articles of Union, or any treaty subsisting under the authority of the Union...

Page 148 - I have done nothing in the late Contest, but what I thought myself indispensably bound to do, by the Duty which I owed to my People. I will be very frank with you. I was the last to consent to the Separation, but the Separation having been made and having become inevitable, I have always said, as I say now, that I would be the first to meet the Friendship of the United States as an independent Power.

Page 106 - With a heart full of love and gratitude, I now take leave of you ; I most devoutly wish that your latter days may be as prosperous and happy as your former ones have been glorious and honorable.

Page 390 - Under the Articles of Confederation each State retained its sovereignty, freedom and independence, and every power, jurisdiction and right not expressly delegated to the United States.

Page 321 - I congratulate you, fellow-citizens, on the approach of the period at which you may interpose your authority constitutionally, to withdraw the citizens of the United States from all further participation in those violations of human rights which have been so long continued on the unoffending inhabitants of Africa, and which the morality, the reputation, and the best interests of our country, have long been eager to proscribe.

Page 374 - That the said report, with the resolutions and letter accompanying the same, be transmitted to the several legislatures, in order to be submitted to a convention of delegates, chosen in each State by the people thereof, in conformity to the resolves of the convention made and provided in that case.

Page 158 - That no man shall be compelled to frequent or support any religious worship, place or ministry whatsoever, nor shall be enforced, restrained, molested, or burthened in his body or goods, nor shall otherwise suffer on account of his religious opinions or belief...

Page 45 - The time shall come, when, free as seas or wind, Unbounded Thames shall flow for all mankind, Whole nations enter with each swelling tide, And seas but join the regions they divide; Earth's distant ends our glory shall behold, And the new world launch forth to seek the old.

Page 365 - On the whole, sir, I cannot help expressing a wish that every member of the Convention, who may still have objections to it, would with me, on this occasion, doubt a little of his own infallibility and, to make manifest our unanimity, put his name to this instrument.

Bibliographic information

• Title: History of the United States of America: From the Discovery of the Continent [to 1789], Volume 6; History of the United States of America: From the Discovery of the Continent [to 1789], George Bancroft
• Author: George Bancroft
• Publisher: Appleton, 1885
• Original from: Harvard University
• Digitized: Oct 31, 2006