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... Senate and the House of Representatives . Representation was to be equal in the Senate , each state to have two members , while in the House of Representatives it was to be based on population . - 3. It was agreed in making up the basis ...
... Senate and the House of Representatives . Representation was to be equal in the Senate , each state to have two members , while in the House of Representatives it was to be based on population . - 3. It was agreed in making up the basis ...
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... Senate . In fact , " the Constitution was the work of men who had a vivid sense of the danger of democracy . " Since it went into operation the Constitution has been modi- fied in three ways : ( 1 ) by amendment ( § 251 ) ; ( 2 ) by the ...
... Senate . In fact , " the Constitution was the work of men who had a vivid sense of the danger of democracy . " Since it went into operation the Constitution has been modi- fied in three ways : ( 1 ) by amendment ( § 251 ) ; ( 2 ) by the ...
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... Senate of the United States in secret session accepted the treaty as a whole , but struck out the article by which we renounced our right to unlimited transportation and exportation , and with it the privilege of West India trade which ...
... Senate of the United States in secret session accepted the treaty as a whole , but struck out the article by which we renounced our right to unlimited transportation and exportation , and with it the privilege of West India trade which ...
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... Senator Grundy of Tennessee admitted , a little later , that when the recently acquired territory should become " fully peopled the northern states would " lose their power " and would then be at the mercy of the southern section . This ...
... Senator Grundy of Tennessee admitted , a little later , that when the recently acquired territory should become " fully peopled the northern states would " lose their power " and would then be at the mercy of the southern section . This ...
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... Senate of Massachusetts had already ( June 15 , 1813 ) resolved that the war was " waged without jus- tifiable cause , " and had solemnly remonstrated against its con- tinuance . The following year the Legislature issued a call for a ...
... Senate of Massachusetts had already ( June 15 , 1813 ) resolved that the war was " waged without jus- tifiable cause , " and had solemnly remonstrated against its con- tinuance . The following year the Legislature issued a call for a ...
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