The Dorr War: Or, The Constitutional Struggle in Rhode Island |
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27 Cong Acote's Hill adjournment adopted aforesaid Algerine amendments appointed ARTICLE Assembly authority Burke's Report charter government Chepachet citizens city of Providence clerks Collection Rhode Island colony committee Company declared delegates Democratic Dorr Rebellion Dorr's electors executive freemen Freemen's Constitution Governor Dorr Governor King House of Representatives Island Historical Society Island House Journals James Fenner June June 27 jury justice legislature Lieutenant-Governor majority martial law military movement Newport non-freemen officers People's Constitution people's government persons political present Providence county Providence Express Providence Journal Providence Plantations qualified question Republican Herald resolutions Rhode Island Historical Rhode Island House Rhode Island Manual SAMUEL WARD KING Secretary Senate Sess session South Kingstown stitution suffrage party suffragists Supreme Court Testimony Thomas Wilson Dorr tion town and ward town or city treason Trial of Dorr Turner United vote voters ward meetings Whig York
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Page 374 - A majority of each house shall constitute a quorum to do business; but a smaller number may adjourn from day to day, and may compel the attendance of absent members in such manner, and under such penalties, as each house may provide.
Page 88 - ... of all the various modes and forms of government, that is best, which is capable of producing the greatest degree of happiness and safety, and is most effectually secured against the danger of maladministration; and...
Page 309 - ... freely and fully have and enjoy his and their own judgments and consciences, in matters of religious concernments...
Page 383 - All impeachments shall be tried by the Senate; and when sitting for that purpose, the Senators shall be upon oath, or affirmation, to do justice according to law and evidence. When the Governor of the State is tried, the Chief Justice shall preside. No person shall be convicted without the concurrence of two-thirds of the Senators elected.
Page 349 - That no man shall be compelled to frequent or support any religious worship, place or ministry whatsoever, nor shall be enforced, restrained, molested, or burthened in his body or goods, nor shall otherwise suffer on account of his religious opinions or belief; but that all men shall be free to profess, and by argument to maintain, their opinions in matters of religion, and that the same shall in no wise diminish, enlarge, or affect their civil capacities.
Page 349 - Every person may freely speak, write and publish on all subjects, being responsible for the abuse of that liberty; and in all trials for libel, both civil and criminal, the truth when published with good motives and for justifiable ends, shall be a sufficient defense.
Page 349 - Well aware that Almighty God hath created the mind free ; that all attempts to influence it by temporal punishments or burdens, or by civil incapacitations, tend only to beget habits of hypocrisy and meanness, and are a departure from the plan of the Holy Author of our religion, who being Lord both of body and mind, yet chose not to propagate it by coercions on either, as was in his Almighty power to do...
Page 350 - ... shall have a right to vote in the election of all civil officers, and on all questions in all legally organized town or ward meetings...
Page 370 - This enumeration of rights shall not be construed to impair or deny others retained by the people.
Page 383 - The diffusion of knowledge, as well as of virtue, among the people, being essential to the preservation of their rights and liberties, it shall be the duty of the General Assembly to promote public schools, and to adopt all means which they may deem necessary and proper to secure to the people the advantages and opportunities of education.