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General Principles of Constitutional Law in the United States of America (Classic Reprint)
General Principles of Constitutional Law in the United States of America - Classic Reprint Author:Thomas McIntyre Cooley CHAPTER I. THE mSB OF THE: AMERICAN UNION. Independence,- The deelaJ'ution which severed the political COllnection betweeu t.he thirteen Amel'iean Colollies und the: British Crown hcul's dute July 4, 1776, and was made hy tbe reprcsentatives of tIle Colonies in General COllgress assombkd, severally empowel'e(l by the respective Colonies to make ... more »it. By this manifcsto the representatives declare to the world that" appealing' to the Snpreme J ndge of the wOI'd for the rcctitlHlc 01' our intentjolls, [we] do, in the Dame mill by authority of the good I)(~oJ>lc of these Colonies, solemnly publish and declare, that these United Colonies are, and of right ought to be, free and indepeudent States; that they urc absolveu from all allegiance to the British Crown, and that nIl political connection between them and the state of Great Brit:1in is, ano ought to be, totally dissolved; and that, 3S free and independent States, t.hey have full power to
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