 | 1855 - 846 pages
...take the most cflectual measures for forming foreign alliances. ON THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE. That a plan of confederation be prepared and transmitted...the respective Colonies for their consideration and approval. These were all parts of the same great measure, (independence.) and all were to stand or... | |
 | Peter Force - 1855 - 80 pages
...to the British Crown; and that all political connexion between them and the State of Great Britain is and ought to be totally dissolved. That it is expedient...the respective Colonies for their consideration and approval. These were all parts of the same great measure, c (independence,) and all were to stand or... | |
 | 1888 - 928 pages
...to the British Crown ; and that all political connection between them and the state of Great Britain is, and ought to be, totally dissolved. " That it...the respective colonies, for their consideration and approbation." In these trying times the two greatest colonies, Virginia and Massachusetts, had been... | |
 | George Bancroft - 1860 - 490 pages
...that it is expedient forthwith to take the most effectual measures for forming foreign alliances; and that a plan of confederation be prepared and transmitted...the respective colonies for their consideration and approbation." The resolutions were seconded by John Adams; and "the members were enjoined to attend... | |
 | George Bancroft - 1860 - 496 pages
...that it is expedient forthwith to take the most effectual measures for forming foreign alliances ; and that a plan of confederation be prepared and transmitted...the respective colonies for their consideration and approbation." The resolutions were seconded by John Adams; and "the members were enjoined to attend... | |
 | GEORGE BANCROFT - 1868 - 490 pages
...to the British crown, and that all political connection between them and the state of Great Britain is, and ought to be, totally dissolved; that it is...effectual measures for forming foreign alliances; and that a plan of confederation be prepared, and transmitted to the respective colonies for their... | |
 | Alexander Hamilton Stephens - 1868 - 720 pages
...Independence, early in June, was not only for Independence, b'ut farther — for " a plan of Confederation, to be prepared and transmitted to the respective Colonies for their consideration and approbation."! The plan for a Confederation of separate Independent Sovereign States, was moved in... | |
 | Richard Frothingham - 1872 - 678 pages
...the British Crown, and that all political connection between them and the State of Great Britain k and ought to be totally dissolved. " That it is expedient...the respective colonies for their consideration and approbation." John Adams seconded the motion. The Journal of Congress says, "that, certain resolutions... | |
 | Thomas Wentworth Higginson - 1875 - 424 pages
...to the British crown ; and that all political connection between them and the State of Great Britain is and ought to be totally dissolved. "That it is...the respective colonies for their consideration and approbation." They were seconded by John Adams of Massachusetts. The first discussion of them showed,... | |
 | Edward Abbott - 1875 - 104 pages
...to the British crown ; and that all political connection between them and the State of Great Britain is and ought to be totally dissolved. " That it is...the respective colonies for their consideration and approbation." These resolutions provoked a spirited and prolonged discussion, but led to the appointment... | |
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That these United Colonies are, and of right ought to be, free and independent States, that they are absolved from all allegiance to the British Crown, and that all political connection between them and the State of Great Britain is, and ought to be,... 
