A Library of Universal Literature: In 4 Parts, Comprising Science, Biography, Fiction and the Great Orations. Pt.3: Orations, Band 6Collier, 1900 |
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... vote . To that office he was twice unani- mously reëlected , and was also chosen a member of the Convention which convened in 1787 to frame a Federal Constitution . During the last two years of Franklin's life he helped to organize the ...
... vote . To that office he was twice unani- mously reëlected , and was also chosen a member of the Convention which convened in 1787 to frame a Federal Constitution . During the last two years of Franklin's life he helped to organize the ...
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... vote made him its presid- ing officer . Beyond a few suggestive hints , he took no part in the debates , but he approved the Constitution which was ultimately devised , believing it , as he said , to be the best obtainable at the epoch ...
... vote made him its presid- ing officer . Beyond a few suggestive hints , he took no part in the debates , but he approved the Constitution which was ultimately devised , believing it , as he said , to be the best obtainable at the epoch ...
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... our liberties - if anything partial or extraneous should infect the purity of our free , fair , virtuous , and in- dependent elections . If an election is to be determined by a majority of a single vote , and that can INAUGURAL ADDRESS 51.
... our liberties - if anything partial or extraneous should infect the purity of our free , fair , virtuous , and in- dependent elections . If an election is to be determined by a majority of a single vote , and that can INAUGURAL ADDRESS 51.
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... vote , and that can be procured by a party through artifice or corruption , the government may be the choice of a party , for its own ends , not of the nation for the national good . If that solitary suffrage can be ob- tained by ...
... vote , and that can be procured by a party through artifice or corruption , the government may be the choice of a party , for its own ends , not of the nation for the national good . If that solitary suffrage can be ob- tained by ...
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... voted them ? Thus will responsibility , that great pillar of a free government , be taken away . The honorable gentleman wished to try the experiment . Loving his country as he does , he would not surely wish to trust his happiness to ...
... voted them ? Thus will responsibility , that great pillar of a free government , be taken away . The honorable gentleman wished to try the experiment . Loving his country as he does , he would not surely wish to trust his happiness to ...
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