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"The choice of SEVERAL, to form an intermediate body of electors, will be much less apt to convulse the community with any extraordinary or violent movements, than the choice of ONE who was himself to be the final object of the public wishes. And as the electors, chosen in each State, are to assemble and vote in the State in which they are chosen, this detached and divided situation will expose them much less to heats and ferments, which might be communicated from them to the

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"The choice of SEVERAL, to form an intermediate body of electors, will be much less apt to convulse the community with any extraordinary or violent movements, than the choice of ONE who was himself to be the final object of the public wishes. And as the electors, chosen in each State, are to assemble and vote in the State in which they are chosen, this detached and divided situation will expose them much less to heats and ferments, which might be communicated from them to the

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National Gallery of Art In 1762, New York held its first St. Patrick’s Day parade. In 1766, Britain repealed the Stamp Act but passed the Declaratory Act, which asserts Great Britain’s right to pass any laws governing the American colonies. In 1775, the Transylvania Land Company, headed by Richard Henderson, bought most of Kentucky through a treaty signed with Cherokee chiefs at Sycamore Shoals on the Watauga River (it was later declared illegal) In 1776, British General Will

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"T he ordinary power of appointment is confined to the President and Senate JOINTLY, and can therefore only be exercised during the session of the Senate; but as it would have been improper to oblige this body to be continually in session for the appointment of officers and as vacancies might happen IN THEIR RECESS, which it might be necessary for the public service to fill without delay, the succeeding clause is evidently intended to authorize the President, SINGLY, to make

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1st black-owned and run newspaper In 1621, Samoset, a member of the Abenaki tribe, made contact with the Pilgrims of Plymouth Colony. He greeted them in English, having learned the language from fishermen along the coast of Maine, and thereafter established a close relationship with the settlers. In 1776, Washington’s day was ruled by the weather. Heavy conditions and “mirey” roads force him to countermand earlier marching orders. He directs that the artillery scheduled to

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"The security essentially intended by the constitution against corruption and treachery in the formation of treaties, is to be sought for in the numbers and characters of those you are to make them." The JOINT AGENCY of the chief magistrate of the union, and of two-thirds of the members of a body selected by the collective wisdom of the legislatures of the several states, is designed to be the pledge or the fidelity of the national councils in this particular."

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Kitty Genovese In 1639, New College was renamed Harvard College after clergyman John Harvard. In 1677, Massachusetts gained title to Maine for $6,000 In 1776, smallpox weighed heavily on Washington’s mind. In his General Orders, he forbids officers or soldiers from entering Boston without permission, warning that the enemy has “with a malicious assiduity” spread smallpox throughout the town. He also threatens severe punishment for any American caught pillaging; Boston’s inhab

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