| United States. Bureau of Rolls and Library - 1900 - 936 pagine
...taken up. viz—" that the rights of suffrage in the National Legislature ought to tie pro. lxirtioned to the quotas of contribution, or to the number of free inhabitants, as the one or the other rule may seem best in different cases." Madison ["by M r . Randolph" stricken... | |
| Sir Adolphus William Ward, George Walter Prothero, Sir Stanley Mordaunt Leathes - 1903 - 796 pagine
...way of formal provision. (2) REPRESENTATION The second of the Randolph resolutions provided " that the rights of suffrage in the national legislature...contribution, or to the number of free inhabitants, as the one or the other rule might seem best in different cases." This resolution touched a vital point... | |
| James Madison - 1902 - 510 pagine
...postponed, which was agreed to. W. Randolph and Mr Madison then moved the following resolution — " that the rights of suffrage in the national Legislature ought to be proportioned." It was moved and 2d<? to amend it by adding "and not according to the present system" — which was... | |
| John Pancoast Gordy - 1903 - 616 pagine
...Virginia plan, as presented by Randolph, dealt with the first two only. It declared that the right of suffrage in the national legislature ought to be...contribution or to the number of free inhabitants," and that a government ought to be established with power to execute its own laws. The proposal of Virginia... | |
| Samuel Benjamin Crandall - 1904 - 262 pagine
...to the 1 Documentary History of the Constitution, vol. iii, p. 773. On May 30, Hamilton moved that the rights of suffrage in the national legislature ought to be proportioned to the number of free inhabitants; and on June 11, supported a resolution providing that the same ratio of... | |
| Samuel Benjamin Crandall - 1904 - 276 pagine
...to the 1 Documentary History of the Constitution, vol. ill, p. 773. On May 30, Hamilton moved that the rights of suffrage in the national legislature ought to be proportioned to the number of free inhabitants; and on June 11, supported a resolution providing that the same ratio of... | |
| 1904 - 584 pagine
...were to vote as individuals and not by States. The number of representatives was "to be proportional to the quotas of contribution, or to the number of free inhabitants," as the Convention might determine. It was also proposed to allow the national legislature to veto all... | |
| Thomas Francis Moran - 1904 - 580 pagine
...were to vote as individuals and not by States. The number of representatives was "to be proportional to the quotas of contribution, or to the number of free inhabitants," as the Convention might determine. It was also proposed to allow the national legislature to veto all... | |
| Rossiter Johnson - 1905 - 318 pagine
...ultimately were embodied, wholly or partly, in the Constitution as adopted were these: That the right of suffrage in the national legislature ought to be...contribution or to the number of free inhabitants. That the national legislature ought to consist of two branches. That the members of the first branch... | |
| Albert Bushnell Hart - 1905 - 390 pagine
...accomplish that object the right of suffrage in the national legislature should be proportioned either to the quotas of contribution or to the number of free inhabitants; that there should be a legislature of two branches, the members of the first branch to be chosen by... | |
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