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Page 40 - In all elections, every white male citizen above the age of twenty-one years, having resided in the State six months next preceding any election, shall be entitled to vote at such election ; and every white male inhabitant of the age aforesaid, who may be a resident of the State at the time of the signing of this Constitution, shall have the right of voting as aforesaid...
Page 19 - That in every case where a State is entitled to more than one Representative, the number to which each State shall be entitled under this apportionment shall be elected by districts composed of contiguous territory equal in number to the number of Representatives to which said State may be entitled, no one district electing more than one Representative.
Page 40 - Each individual of the society has a right to be protected by it in the enjoyment of his life, liberty, and property, according to standing laws.
Page 13 - And Whereas, It is essential to the preservation of the rights reserved to the several States, and the freedom of the people, under the operations of a General Government, that the right of prescribing the manner, time, and places of holding the elections to the Federal Legislature, should be forever inseparably annexed to the sovereignty of the several States...
Page 11 - Federal system : he hoped the idea would be dismissed. It would be like putting new cloth on an old garment. The confederation was founded on temporary principles. It cannot last: it cannot be amended. If we do not establish...
Page 17 - Nothing is more clearly written in the book of destiny than the emancipation of the blacks ; and it is equally certain that the two races will never live in a state of equal freedom under the same government, so insurmountable are the barriers which nature, habit, and opinions have established between them.
Page 12 - That Congress do not exercise the powers vested in them by the fourth section of the first article, but in cases where a State shall neglect or refuse to make the regulations therein mentioned, or shall make regulations subversive of the rights of the people to a free and equal representation in Congress, agreeably to the Constitution.
Page 24 - The committee to whom was referred that part of the Governor's Message which relates to the amendments proposed by the General Assembly of Louisiana and Missouri, to the Constitution of the United States, have given to the subject their serious consideration...
Page 36 - was referred that part of the Governor's message relating to the militia and volunteers of this commonwealth; and also the proceedings of a Military convention, of which Major John B.
Page 11 - ... wished the Senate to consist of the most distinguished characters, distinguished for their rank in life and their weight of property, and bearing as strong a likeness to the British House of Lords as possible, and he thought such characters more likely to be selected by the state legislatures than in any other mode.