A More Perfect Union: To 1877This two-volume primary source reader contains over 90 items and is organized chronologically and topically, with selections ranging from Lincoln's Gettysbury Address to Elizabeth Cady Stanton's Seneca Falls Declaration of 1848. Documents new to the fourth edition provide more coverage of the West and religion, as well as a variety of political, social, and economic documents. |
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Page 80
... representatives in the legislature ought to be free and frequent , and all men having sufficient evidence of permanent common interest with and attachment to the Community ought to have the right of suffrage : and no aid , charge , tax ...
... representatives in the legislature ought to be free and frequent , and all men having sufficient evidence of permanent common interest with and attachment to the Community ought to have the right of suffrage : and no aid , charge , tax ...
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... representatives of the people in the legislature is injurious to their rights , and ought not to be exercised . Eighth , That in all capital and criminal prosecutions , a man hath a right to demand the cause and nature of his accusation ...
... representatives of the people in the legislature is injurious to their rights , and ought not to be exercised . Eighth , That in all capital and criminal prosecutions , a man hath a right to demand the cause and nature of his accusation ...
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... Representatives , nor less than one Representative for every forty thousand persons , until the number of Representatives shall amount to two hundred , after which the proportion shall be so regulated by Congress , that there shall not ...
... Representatives , nor less than one Representative for every forty thousand persons , until the number of Representatives shall amount to two hundred , after which the proportion shall be so regulated by Congress , that there shall not ...
Contents
RECREATING POLITICAL SOCIETY | 16 |
THE UNDERSIDE OF PRIVILEGE | 24 |
LEARNING AND PIETY | 34 |
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