Oliver Ellsworth Quotes
A union is necessary for the purposes of a national defense. United, we are strong; divided, we are weak. It is easy for hostile nations to sweep off a number of separate states, one after another…. This shows us the necessity of combining our whole force, and, as to national purposes, becoming one state.
Oliver Ellsworth, 1745-1807, Member of the Continental Congress, U.S. Senator (Federalist, CT), Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, U.S. Minister to France, Speech to the Connecticut Constitutional Ratification Convention, Hartford, January 4, 1788
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He persuaded many other rulers to join the Indian Union when India became Independent.
Maryland had not yet ratified, and was not to do so until March 1, 1781, yet Jay operationalized the new nation with this letter.
The Iroquois had a very successful confederacy of 6 tribes in a relatively democratic government with a written constitution. They dominated the Eastern part of North America for years. The were able to maintain a permanent unity with a unified and decentralized combination of government—much like the United States would become. At the time of this advice, each American colony was a government unto itself. The three Iroquois Indian delegates were Canassatego, Tachanoontia, and Gachradodow.
At the time, the United States and Great Britain were trying to create a democratic nation in Iraq and having much difficulty.
Later, in 1697, William Penn made the first proposal to unite all the American colonies. See {612247}.
This is the first known proposal for the formal union of all the American colonies. There had been a confederation of New England plantations in 1643, see {612159}. The purposes are remarkably similar to what developed in our original constitution and even regarding the Federal role today.
Jews at the time not had a national homeland since they were driven out of Jerusalem and Palestine. For almost 2000 years, Jews spread the world over belonging to many different cultures and countries. There was little Jews had in common from one country and culture to another. However, anti-Semites and enemies of the Jewish people caused them to begin to see themselves as one people. This had its culmination in the creation of the Jewish State of Israel in 1949
Warren was killed shortly thereafter at the Battle of Bunker Hill.
On the need to build up Jewish military strength in anticipation of the impending Arab-Israel crisis
Those same qualities that Hearn extolled in 1895 which maintained the Japanese Empire against external forces, also were instrumental in the transition to militarism and expansionist aggression that Japan would develop on the 1930s and which led to WWII and the Japanese conquest of much of Asia and eventual defeat for the Japanese.
Many wonder why Bolivar did not attempt to unify much of South America into a single federated state once they had thrown off the yoke of Spanish colonialism. This was his reason.
Oliver Ellsworth was an American lawyer, judge, politician, and diplomat. He was a framer of the United States Constitution, a United States Senator from Connecticut, and the third Chief Justice of the United States. Additionally, Ellsworth received 11 electoral votes in the 1796 presidential election.
