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British Land Policy And The American Revolution: A Belated Lecture In Economic History, George O. Virtue

Papers from the University Studies series (University of Nebraska)

If this were spoken from a pulpit instead of from a teacher's rostrum, I should be disposed to take as a text for what follows a passage from C. W. Alvord's study of The Mississippi Valley in British Politics. From the middle of the 18th century to the Revolution, how to deal with the great valley was, Alvord holds, the number one American problem of every British ministry: How to meet the claims of France to it and how to defend it once her claims were extinguished; how to meet the claims to it of the seaboard colonies by virtue …

The Constitutions Of The Northwest States, John D. Hicks

Papers from the University Studies series (University of Nebraska)

CHAPTER I • The Statehood Movement • The territorial system of the United States • The statehood movement in Dakota • The statehood movement in Washington, Idaho, Montana, and Wyoming • The Omnibus Bill • The Remaining Territories • The Constitutional Conventions • The Reform Movement

CHAPTER II • The Departments of Government • The Fixity of American Constitutions • Constitutions as historical sources • The Legislature • General dissatisfaction with the lawmaking body • The "Dakota plan" • The single chamber legislature • Size of the legislature • Basis of representation • Minority representation • Re-appointment • Popular control …

The Embassy Of Everaard Van Weede, Lord Of Dykvelt, To England In 1687, James Muilenburg

Papers from the University Studies series (University of Nebraska)

The importance of the embassy of Everaard van Weede, Lord of Dykvelt, to England in 1687, has been variously estimated by the many historians of the Revolution of 1688. Bishop Burnet, who played an important role in all the counsels of William and acted as the spiritual minister to Mary, speaks intimately of the whole affair. He gives an account of the mission which purports to be as he had it from the envoy himself. In Burnet's opinion the embassy may from one point of view be looked upon as a failure, for its ostensible objects were not attained. But …

The Meeting Of The Estates-General, 1789: The Union Of The Three Orders, June 24 To June 27, Jeanette Needham

Papers from the University Studies series (University of Nebraska)

The calling of the estates-general for 1789 marked the culmination of a long and bitter struggle between the king and the privileged orders, caused chiefly by the financial embarrassment of the country. The victory over the king was the signal for.a still more bitter conflict between the third estate and the privileged classes over the organization of the estates-general. It was continued after the formal opening of the estates in May, 1789, under the guise of a new contest, over the manner of verifi€ation of credentials. Although outwardly but a matter of parliamentary procedure, this question in reality veiled that …

On The Conflict Of Parties In The Jacobin Club (November, 1789-July 17, 1791), Charles Kuhlmann

Papers from the University Studies series (University of Nebraska)

The Breton Club having ceased its activity after the discussion of the veto in August, 1789, the popular party in the assembly found itself without a railying point. Although differences of opinion had shattered the loosely organized club at Versailles, the memory of its usefulness soon induced the same members to attempt the formation of a new and more regularly organized association in the capital,1 The exact date of the formation of the J acobin Club it is impossible to determine from the evidence so far discovered, but everything points to the close of November or the first days of …