Democracy, liberty, and property the state Constitutional Conventions of the 1820s /

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Corporate Author: ebrary, Inc
Other Authors: Peterson, Merrill D.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Indianapolis, Ind. : Liberty Fund, c2010.
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Table of Contents:
  • The test oath
  • The Third Article
  • The "poll parish"
  • Tax exemption
  • The suffrage
  • The basis of representation
  • Joseph Story on representation
  • Daniel Webster on representation
  • "Address to the people"
  • Statement of the votes for and against the Articles of Amendment, in the several counties
  • The Council of Revision and the veto power
  • The term of the governor
  • The appointive power
  • The Senate and the suffrage
  • The Negro and the suffrage
  • Blasphemy and libel
  • Reform of the judiciary
  • Cooke on democratic representation
  • Upshur on majorities and minorities
  • Doddridge in rebuttal
  • Leigh on power and property
  • Randolph on the federal issue
  • Marshall on compromise
  • Summers on the Gordon plan
  • Gordon on the Gordon plan
  • The non-freeholders' memorial
  • The freehold suffrage defended
  • The reformers' rebuttal
  • The executive
  • The county courts
  • The amendment article
  • The question of ratification.