 | United States federal convention - 1819 - 524 pages
...Randolph : Resolved, That the rights of suffrage in the national legislature ought to be proportioned 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. It was moved by Mr. Hamilton, seconded... | |
 | Timothy Pitkin - United States - 1828 - 554 pages
...Resolved, Therefore, that the right of suffrage, in the national legislature, ought to be proportioned to the quotas of contribution, or to the number of free inhabitants, as the one or the other may seem best, in different cases. " 3. Resolved, That the national legislature... | |
 | Virginia. Constitutional Convention - Constitutional conventions - 1830 - 932 pages
...Virginia, in this form, " that the right of sutfrage in the National Legislature, ought to be proportioned to the quotas of contribution, or to the number of free inhabitants, as the one or the other may seem best in dillerent cases." The following day Mr. Hamilton moved to... | |
 | James Madison, Henry Dilworth Gilpin - Constitutional history - 1840 - 708 pages
...Resolved, therefore, that the rights of suffrage in the National Legislature ought to be proportioned 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. 3. " Resolved, that the National Legislature... | |
 | Criticism - 1849 - 660 pages
...third resolution was, " that the right of suffrage in the national legislature ought to be proportioned to the quotas of contribution or to the number of free inhabitants, as the one or the other may be best in different cases." Several amendments were proposed, till finally... | |
 | Wendell Phillips - Constitutional law - 1856 - 220 pages
...taken up, viz. : — " That the rights of suffrage in the National Legislature ought to be proportioned 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." Colonel HAMILTON moved to alter the... | |
 | George Tucker - History - 1856 - 672 pages
...propositions, " that the right of suffrage in the National Legislature ought to be proportioned either to the quotas of contribution, or to the number of free inhabitants," the further discussion of the subject was, by the consent of both parties, postponed for the time,... | |
 | John Philip Sanderson - Naturalization - 1856 - 380 pages
...in these words : " That the rights of suffrage in the National Legislature ought to be proportioned 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." This Col. Hamilton moved to amend,... | |
 | Joel Parker - 1856 - 554 pages
...with the concurrence of his colleagues, asserted that the right of suffrage ought to be 6 proportioned to the quotas of contribution, or to the number of free inhabitants, as the one or the other rule might seem best in different cases. On taking it up for consideration... | |
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Confederation ought to be so corrected & enlarged as to accomplish the objects proposed by their institution; namely, "common defence, security of liberty, and general welfare." 2. Resolved therefore that the rights of suffrage in the National Legislature... 
