Iredell
Americannoun
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“While intellectuals like James Iredell had written on the right of the colonies to maintain their own laws and government,” Mr. Turley writes, “it was Paine who seemed to speak for the nation in expressing a growing detachment and anger toward England.”
According to a Jan. 8 incident report by the Iredell County Sheriff’s Office, a backpack and $30,000 in cash were stolen from Biffle’s home in Mooreville, N.C.
From Los Angeles Times
Iredell was unstinting in his mockery of such fearmongering: “Sir, it is impossible to treat such idle fears with any degree of gravity.”
From Slate
Iredell knew there is no response to such mockery but more mockery.
From Slate
Religious tests, Iredell knew, had never done anything to keep the opportunistic out of office.
From Slate
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