A Collection of the Political Writings of William Leggett, Volumen1Taylor & Dodd, 1840 |
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... suffrage . He ever looked coldly if not with positive disinclination upon the different laws proposed for registering voters ; he could not endure the idea of any impediment upon the liberty of the citizen , and he preferred the evils ...
... suffrage . He ever looked coldly if not with positive disinclination upon the different laws proposed for registering voters ; he could not endure the idea of any impediment upon the liberty of the citizen , and he preferred the evils ...
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... suffrage . Other considerations , therefore , have impelled , and will still impel us , to raise our voice against this second attempt to throw our city into confusion ; to frighten our peaceable citizens into the innermost sanctuary of ...
... suffrage . Other considerations , therefore , have impelled , and will still impel us , to raise our voice against this second attempt to throw our city into confusion ; to frighten our peaceable citizens into the innermost sanctuary of ...
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... suffrage , from the consequences that may result from their own mad , malignant measures , and to charge the honest , industri- ous , upright , independent voters of this city with all the odium of acts forced upon them in their own ...
... suffrage , from the consequences that may result from their own mad , malignant measures , and to charge the honest , industri- ous , upright , independent voters of this city with all the odium of acts forced upon them in their own ...
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... suffrage , or exercise his influence , in favour of a single application for corporate powers , or shall refrain from exerting himself to defeat such an application , will be un- faithful to his trust , to his country , and to the ...
... suffrage , or exercise his influence , in favour of a single application for corporate powers , or shall refrain from exerting himself to defeat such an application , will be un- faithful to his trust , to his country , and to the ...
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... suffrage in the choice of rulers , and the making of laws ? And what we ask is the power against which the peo . ple , not only of this country , but of almost all Europe , are called upon to array themselves , and the encroachment on ...
... suffrage in the choice of rulers , and the making of laws ? And what we ask is the power against which the peo . ple , not only of this country , but of almost all Europe , are called upon to array themselves , and the encroachment on ...
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A Collection of the Political Writings of William Leggett, Volumen1 William Leggett Vista completa - 1840 |
A Collection of the Political Writings of William Leggett, Volumen1 William Leggett Vista completa - 1840 |
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Página 194 - The assent of two-thirds of the members elected to each branch of the Legislature, shall be requisite to every bill appropriating the public moneys or property for local or private purposes.
Página 120 - Rome, in the height of her glory, is not to be compared ; a power which has dotted over the surface of the whole globe with her possessions and military posts, whose morning drum-beat, following the sun, and keeping company with the hours, circles the earth with one continuous and unbroken strain of the martial airs of England.
Página 162 - There are no necessary evils in government. Its evils exist only in its abuses. If it would confine itself to equal protection, and, as Heaven does its rains, shower its favors alike on the high and the low, the rich and the poor, it would be an unqualified blessing.
Página 254 - Laws shall be made for ascertaining, by proper proofs, the citizens who shall be entitled to the right of suffrage hereby established, and for the registration of voters ; which registration shall be completed at least ten days before each election.
Página 120 - On this question of principle, while actual suffering was yet afar off, they raised their flag against a power, to which, for purposes of foreign conquest and subjugation, Rome, in the height of her glory, is not to be compared ; a power which has...
Página 267 - No mechanical trade shall hereafter be taught to convicts in the State prison of this State, except the manufacture of those articles of which the chief supply for home consumption is imported from other States or countries.
Página 254 - The legislature may provide by law, that a register of all citizens entitled to the right of suffrage, in every town and ward, shall be made at least twenty days before any election; and may provide that no person shall vote at any election, who shall not be registered as a citizen qualified to vote at such election.
Página 120 - The Parliament of Great Britain asserted a right to tax the colonies in all cases whatsoever ; and it was precisely on this question that they made the Revolution turn. The amount of taxation was trifling, but the claim itself was inconsistent with liberty ; and that was, in their eyes, enough. It was against the recital of an act of Parliament, rather than against any suffering under its enactments, that they took up arms. They went to war against a preamble. They fought seven years against a declaration.
Página 119 - ... extreme jeopardy. We should not be worthy sons of our fathers were we so to regard great questions affecting the general freedom.
Página 108 - Or does he grow more learned, logical and profound by intense study of the daybook, ledger, bills of exchange, bank promises, and notes of hand? Of all the countries on the face of the earth, or that ever existed on the face of the earth, this is the one where the claims of wealth and aristocracy are the most unfounded, absurd and ridiculous. With no claim to hereditary distinctions; with no exclusive rights except what they derive from monopolies, and no power of perpetuating their estates in their...