id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt 16960 Beard, Mary Ritter History of the United States .txt text/plain 209325 13026 66 Constitution of the United States was to commit to Congress the power to The Congress drew up a declaration of American rights and stated in states save New York went on record in favor of severing their political The new state constitutions in their broad outlines followed colonial By the new state constitutions the signs and symbols of royal power, of the United States and will form a new epoch in our political course.... act in the name of the United States; it limits the powers of Congress new confederates to govern the East, and finally the Western states, Congress was also conferred the power of admitting new states; whenever state questions the lawfulness of any act of the federal government, it _The United States in Our Own Time_, or in Paxson, _The New Nation_ accepted the new government as lawful, the United States steadily ./cache/16960.txt ./txt/16960.txt