A Familiar Exposition of the Constitution of the United States: Containing a Brief Commentary on Every Clause, Explaining the True Nature, Reasons, and Objects Thereof; Designed for the Use of School Libraries and General ReadersAmerican Book Company, 1840 - 372 Seiten |
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... vote only in Congress , whatever might be the number of its delegates ; and this became the establish- ed course throughout the whole Revolution . They adopted such other measures , as the exigency of the occasion seem- ed to require ...
... vote only in Congress , whatever might be the number of its delegates ; and this became the establish- ed course throughout the whole Revolution . They adopted such other measures , as the exigency of the occasion seem- ed to require ...
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... votes ; and the necessary elections of Senators and Representatives being made , the first Congress under the Constitution as- embled at New York , ( the then seat of government , ) on Wednesday , the 4th day of March , 1789 , for com ...
... votes ; and the necessary elections of Senators and Representatives being made , the first Congress under the Constitution as- embled at New York , ( the then seat of government , ) on Wednesday , the 4th day of March , 1789 , for com ...
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... vote . What a humiliating lesson is this , after all our sufferings and sacrifices , and after our long and sad experience of the evils of disunited councils , and of the pernicious influence of State jealousies , and local interests ...
... vote . What a humiliating lesson is this , after all our sufferings and sacrifices , and after our long and sad experience of the evils of disunited councils , and of the pernicious influence of State jealousies , and local interests ...
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... the different States . In some of them . none but freeholders were entitled to vote ; in others . ony persons , who had been admitted to the privileges o freemen ; in others , a qualification of property was HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES . 51.
... the different States . In some of them . none but freeholders were entitled to vote ; in others . ony persons , who had been admitted to the privileges o freemen ; in others , a qualification of property was HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES . 51.
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... voting , which should be acceptable to all the States , induced the Convention , finally , after much dis- ussion , to adopt the existing rule in the choice of Repre sentatives in the popular branch of the State legislatures . Thus ...
... voting , which should be acceptable to all the States , induced the Convention , finally , after much dis- ussion , to adopt the existing rule in the choice of Repre sentatives in the popular branch of the State legislatures . Thus ...
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