American Quotations by William J. Federer 2024

Emma Willard (February 23, 1787-April 15, 1870) was an American educator and historian. She was a leader in the movement to provide higher education among women. Emma Willard was born in Berlin, Connecticut and began teaching at the age of sixteen. She was married to John Willard in 1809 and with his help she established a girl's boarding school and later a girl's seminary at Middleton, Vermont. The seminary was moved to New York and became the Emma Willard School. She wrote many successful books and later built a school for women in Athens, Greece. In 1843, American historian Emma...

Theodore Frelinghuysen (March 28, 1787-April 12, 1862) was an American politician and educator. He served as New Jersey Attorney General; U.S. Senator, 1829-35; second President of the University of New York, 1839-50, Mayor of Newark, New Jersey, and seventh President of Rutgers College, 1850-61. In 1844, Theodore Frelinghuysen was the Vice-Presidential candidate with Presidential candidate Henry Clay on the Whig Party ticket. After their narrow defeat, Theodore Frelinghuysen wrote to Henry Clay: <Let us look away to the brighter and better prospects and surer hopes in the promise and consolations of the Gospel of our Saviour. I pray, my honored...

Federalist Papers (1787-1788) were a series of articles explaining the need for, and urging the ratification of the United States Constitution by the individual State governments. These articles, which were published in New York newspapers, were written by Alexander Hamilton, James Madison and John Jay under the pen name of "Publius." Without the powerful arguments presented in The Federalist Papers, the Constitution most likely would not have been ratified. Federalist No. 47: <When the legislative and executive powers are united in the same person or body, there can be no liberty, because apprehensions may arise lest the same monarch or...

Congress of the Confederation (1787) passed an act in which special lands were designated: <...for the sole use of Christian Indians and the Moravian Brethren missionaries, for civilizing the Indians and promoting Christianity. [This act was extended three times during President Thomas Jefferson's administration.]> 1787CC001 -- American Quotations by William J. Federer, 2024, All Rights Reserved, Permission granted to use with acknowledgement. Endnotes: 1787CC001. William J. Federer, American Quotations (2014). Congress of the Confederation, 1787, under the Articles of Confederation, approved a Treaty with the Kaskaskia Indians, extended under President Thomas Jefferson, December 3, 1803; also in the Treaty with the...

Vermont Constitution (July 4, 1786): Whereas all government ought to be instituted and supported for the security and protection of the community as such, and to enable the individuals, who compose it, to enjoy their natural rights, and the other blessings which the Author of Existence has bestowed upon man: and whenever those great ends of government are not obtained, the people have a right, by common consent, to change it, and take such measures as to them may appear necessary to promote their safety and happiness... CHAPTER 1, A DECLARATION OF THE RIGHTS OF THE, INHABITANTS OF THE STATE...