The Cambridge History of the British Empire, Volume 7, Issue 1John Holland Rose, Arthur Percival Newton, Ernest Alfred Benians, Henry Dodwell The University Press, 1933 - Great Britain |
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... United States was building up her Pacific power . By the Oregon Treaty of 1846 the 49th parallel was fixed as the boundary between the United States and British North America , and Oregon became American territory . In the same year war ...
... United States was building up her Pacific power . By the Oregon Treaty of 1846 the 49th parallel was fixed as the boundary between the United States and British North America , and Oregon became American territory . In the same year war ...
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... United States and of Canada , in the light of the political experience of the members of the Convention in their several colonies . Bryce's American Commonwealth had recently been published , and was a mine of information as to the ...
... United States and of Canada , in the light of the political experience of the members of the Convention in their several colonies . Bryce's American Commonwealth had recently been published , and was a mine of information as to the ...
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... United States and Canadian systems , deliberately preferred the United States system , not from any aspiration for purity of federal theory , but from political exigency and practical expediency . The constitu- tion was framed by men ...
... United States and Canadian systems , deliberately preferred the United States system , not from any aspiration for purity of federal theory , but from political exigency and practical expediency . The constitu- tion was framed by men ...
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