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January 9January 9 is the 9th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. There are 356 days remaining (357 in leap years).
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January 8 - January 10 - December 9 - February 9 - Historical anniversaries
Where political rights are not secured to all men by constitutional
what such rights would guarantee. At this rate, there would presently be a
was constrained to admit the deputies from the various settlements to an
our own expense," they observed, "from various countries of Europe,
your wilderness into a fruitful garden for you, and you, in return, impose
repeal these laws.html">laws.html">laws, allow us to make laws to meet our needs, and appoint
people.html">people.html">people; and we, at the end of the Nineteenth Century, may think they were
Stuyvesant thought is perfectly expressed in what he replied.
"The old laws will stand. Directors and council only shall be law-makers:
of government, were their election left to the rabble, we should have
imagine, the Governor stamped his wooden toe.
The people shrugged their shoulders. "We aim but at the general good,"
assemble to protect their liberties and property."
"I declare this assembly dissolved," Peter retorted. "Assemble again at
a few ignorant malcontents." Alas! the seed of the American Idea had
Company learned of the dialogue, they spluttered with indignation. "The
delude themselves with the fantasy that taxes require their assent." With
Writing was on the wall. The flouted people were ripe to welcome England;
meditated wiping the Dutch off the Atlantic seaboard. It availed not.
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