America
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American waters · Virginia · one of the provinces in America
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Ancient Law
The American colonies, especially Virginia, where the equality doctrine gained influence through Jefferson and others.
It is probable, however, that the power which it ultimately acquired over the events of 1789 was not entirely owing to its popularity in France, for in the middle of the century it passed over to America.
From the accession of Elizabeth to the accession of Charles the Second, it cannot be said that there was at any time thorough peace in the American waters, and the encroachments of the New England Colonists on the territory of the French King continued for almost a century longer.
Letters of Marcus Tullius Cicero
Contemporary nation mentioned by the editor as facing similar threats to civic and national life as those that destroyed the Roman Republic.
The evils which were undermining the Republic bear so many striking resemblances to those which threaten the civic and national life of America to-day that the interest of the period is by no means merely historical.
Institutes of Roman Law
Country cited as an example of a union of states with separate jurisdictions.
or (2) in more or less intimate unions of cantons, or states, such as we see in Switzerland, Germany, America;
Economics of Socialism
America, cited as one of the regions where the destructive effects of capitalism were predicted by the Socialist school.
especially in reference to the growth of monopolies, the ruin wrought by our capitalist system in India, America and the Colonies, and the periods of recurrence of international commercial crises.
A Protest Against Law-Taxes
The location of the province where the anecdotal judge served.
I happened once to fall into conversation with a man, who, from an Attorney had been made Judge of one of the provinces in America.
History of Modern Philosophy from Nicolas of Cusa to the Present Time
America is listed as a region covered in the chapter on philosophy outside Germany.
Great Britain and America 4.