The Works of Daniel Webster ...: Speeches in the convention to amend the constitution of Massachusetts, and speeches in CongressC.C. Little and J. Brown, 1851 |
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... committee . The subject before us , is the manner of constituting the legis lative department of government . We have already decided , that the legislative power shall exist as it has heretofore existed , in two separate and distinct ...
... committee . The subject before us , is the manner of constituting the legis lative department of government . We have already decided , that the legislative power shall exist as it has heretofore existed , in two separate and distinct ...
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... committee proposes that these small towns shall elect a member every other year , half of them sending one year , and half the next ; or else that two small towns shall unite and send one member every year . There is something ...
... committee proposes that these small towns shall elect a member every other year , half of them sending one year , and half the next ; or else that two small towns shall unite and send one member every year . There is something ...
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... committee . A precise and exact equality is not attainable , in any mode . Look to the gentleman's own proposition . By that , Essex , with twenty thousand inhab- itants more than Worcester , would have twenty representatives less ...
... committee . A precise and exact equality is not attainable , in any mode . Look to the gentleman's own proposition . By that , Essex , with twenty thousand inhab- itants more than Worcester , would have twenty representatives less ...
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... committee proposes , and , as far as we have yet learned , a great majority of the delegates from small towns approve the plan . I am willing , therefore , to vote for this part of the report of the committee ; thinking it as just and ...
... committee proposes , and , as far as we have yet learned , a great majority of the delegates from small towns approve the plan . I am willing , therefore , to vote for this part of the report of the committee ; thinking it as just and ...
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... committee . The defence of that report , especially in its details , properly belongs to other and abler hands . My purpose in addressing you was , simply , to consider the propriety of providing in one branch of the legislature a real ...
... committee . The defence of that report , especially in its details , properly belongs to other and abler hands . My purpose in addressing you was , simply , to consider the propriety of providing in one branch of the legislature a real ...
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