Democracy, Liberty, and Property: Readings in the American Political TraditionFrancis William Coker |
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Page 195
... universal suffrage ? France has upwards of four , and England upwards of five millions of manufacturing and commer- cial labourers without property . Could these kingdoms sustain the weight of universal suffrage ? The radicals in ...
... universal suffrage ? France has upwards of four , and England upwards of five millions of manufacturing and commer- cial labourers without property . Could these kingdoms sustain the weight of universal suffrage ? The radicals in ...
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... universal suffrage , will powerfully check these dangerous propensi- ties , and such a check becomes the more necessary , since this Con- vention has already determined to withdraw the watchful eye of the judicial department from the ...
... universal suffrage , will powerfully check these dangerous propensi- ties , and such a check becomes the more necessary , since this Con- vention has already determined to withdraw the watchful eye of the judicial department from the ...
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... universal suffrage had been established at any one of them . " Here , obviously , Sir Henry speaks of universal suffrage that is genuinely effective - suffrage that registers the ac- tual will of the people accurately and automatically ...
... universal suffrage had been established at any one of them . " Here , obviously , Sir Henry speaks of universal suffrage that is genuinely effective - suffrage that registers the ac- tual will of the people accurately and automatically ...
Contents
PREFACE | 1 |
From A Modell of Christian Charity 1603 | 17 |
THE FUNDAMENTAL AGREEMENT OF NEW HAVEN 1639 | 26 |
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