The territorial legislature represented but a small fraction of the American people and was far removed from the power which was responsible for a state of peace or war, and before measures could be disapproved by Congress a conflict might be precipitated.
Jacobs critiques the territorial legislature's disconnect from the American populace and its potential to cause conflict.
Share
More from Orange Jacobs
Then he would learn to do his own thinking and reason from the principles laid down in the fundamental works upon the science of the law.
In the onward sweep of development and civilization, and in the largeness of population, individuality becomes fused in the general mass, and loses its salient characteristics.
Pioneers, Washington, with all her grand resources--developed and yet to be developed--won by your privations, courage and patriotism, is your gift to the Union, to be consecrated to liberty, regulated by law, forever.
Steam, whose latent energies were then but little known, under the exploitations of science and inventive genius, became, and continues to be the chief motive power of the world.
Other voices in this conversation
