 | Henry Stephens Randall - 1858 - Liczba stron: 916
...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 - Liczba stron: 334
...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... | |
 | Edward Alfred Pollard - 1868 - Liczba stron: 226
...Kercheval, dated in 1810, proposing certain changes in the Constitution of Virginia he wrote : " These wards, called townships in New England, are the vital...devised by the wit of man for the perfect exercise of self-government and for its preservation. We shall thus marshal our Government into, 1. The general... | |
 | Edward Alfred Pollard - 1868 - Liczba stron: 228
...Kercheval, dated in 1816, proposing certain changes in the Constitution of Virginia he wrote : " These wards, called townships in New England, are the vital...devised by the wit of man for the perfect exercise of self-government and for its preservation. \Ve shall thus marshal our Government into, 1. The general... | |
 | Henry Stephens Randall - 1868 - Liczba stron: 758
...administer all the matters of common interest to the whole county. These wards, called townships hi New England, are the vital principle of their governments,...devised by the wit of man for the perfect exercise of self-government, and for its preservation.1 We should thus marshal our Government into, 1. The general... | |
 | Henry Stephens Randall - 1871 - Liczba stron: 758
...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 vital principle of their governments, and have proved them• selves the wisest invention ever devised by the wit of man for the perfect exercise of self-government,... | |
 | Henry Harrison Metcalf, John Norris McClintock - 1883 - Liczba stron: 446
...reared in the midst of another system, aristocratical and central in its character, who said : " These wards, called townships in New England, are the vital...devised by the wit of man for the perfect exercise of selfgovernment and for its preservation." The New England town-house, therefore, is significant of... | |
 | Israel Ward Andrews - 1877 - Liczba stron: 94
...times. He recommended the division of the counties of Virginia into wards of six miles square. " These wards, called townships in New England, are the vital...devised by the wit of man for the perfect exercise of self-government and for its preservation." Again he says : " These little republics would be the main... | |
 | Jonathan French Stearns - 1879 - Liczba stron: 102
...vital principle of our government," and says, " they have approved themselves the wisest inventions ever devised by the wit of man for the perfect exercise of self-government and for its preservation." "These little republics," he says, "are the main strength... | |
 | Edward Augustus Freeman - 1882 - Liczba stron: 564
...people at that important crisis."1 And in this he voices the sentiments of Jefferson, who says: "These wards, called townships in New England, are the vital...devised by the wit of man for the perfect exercise of selfgovernment and for its preservation."2 In the constitution which Michigan adopted on becoming a... | |
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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. 
