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 | United States federal convention - 1819 - 524 pages
...Resolved, That the right of suffrage in the first " branch of the legislature of the United States ought " not to be according to the rule established..." articles of confederation, but according to some equi" table ratio of representation. On the question to agree, It passed in the affirmative. YEAS—Massachusetts,... | |
 | United States. Constitutional Convention - Constitutional history - 1821 - 328 pages
...authority of the Union. 7. That the right of suffrage in the first branch of the national legislature, ought not to be according to the rule established...of confederation, but according to some equitable rate of representation, namely, in proportion to the whole number nf white, and other fret citixens... | |
 | United States. Constitutional Convention, Robert Yates - Constitutional conventions - 1821 - 320 pages
...of the Union. 7. That the right of suffrage in' the first branch of tho national legislature, aught not to be according to the rule established in the...of confederation, but according to some equitable rate of representation, namely, in proportion to the whole number of white, and other free citizens... | |
 | United States. Congress - Law - 1825 - 782 pages
...by the committee was, " That the right of suffrage in the first branch of the National Legislature ought not to be according to the rule ! established...according | to some equitable ratio of representation, namely, in pro- 1 portion to the whole number of white and other free citizens, and inhabitants of... | |
 | James Trecothick Austin - Statesmen - 1829 - 428 pages
...the convention decided that " the right of suffrage in the first branch of the national legislature ought not to be according to the rule established in the articles of confederation," (which gave each state one vote) "but according to * In the early period of the convention the popular... | |
 | Virginia. Constitutional Convention - Constitutional conventions - 1890 - 928 pages
...of South Carolina. •' That the right of suffrage in the first bfanch of the National Legislature, ought not to be according to the rule established in the articles of Confederation ;" [the rule of equality among the States, as we have seen.] but according to some " equitable ratio... | |
 | Bela Bates Edwards - Theology - 1833 - 892 pages
...Rutlege, of South Carolina, " That the right of suffrage in the first branch of the national legislature, ought not to be according to the rule established...according to some equitable ratio of representation." * For a part of the preceding statements, we are indebted to the very able " sketch of the laws of... | |
 | James Madison, Henry Dilworth Gilpin - United States - 1840 - 700 pages
...question to a point, moved, " that the right of suffrage in the first branch of the National Legislature ought not to be according to the rule established...according to some equitable ratio of representation." The clause, so far as it related to suffrage in the first branch, was postponed, in order to consider this... | |
 | James Madison, Henry Dilworth Gilpin - United States - 1840 - 708 pages
...the Union. 7. Resolved, that the rights of suffrage in the first branch of the National Legislature, ought not to be according to the rule established...according to some equitable ratio of representation, namely, in proportion to the whole number of white and other free citizens and inhabitants, of every... | |
 | Criticism - 1849 - 660 pages
...King, and it was resolved, "that the right of suffrage in the first branch of the national legislature ought not to be according to the rule established in the articles of confederation," — that is, that the states ought not to have an equal vote, — " but according to sonic equitable... | |
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