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" Confederation, but according to some equitable ratio of representation, namely, in proportion to the whole number of white and other free citizens and inhabitants, of every age, sex, and condition, including those bound to servitude for a term of years,... "
Logic of History: Five Hundred Political Texts: Being Concentrated Extracts ... - Page 122
by Stephen D. Carpenter - 1864 - 351 pages
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History of the Origin, Formation, and Adoption of the Constitution ..., Volume 1

George Ticknor Curtis - Constitutional history - 1854 - 564 pages
...as the rule of proportion.2 1 March 20, 1783. Journals, VIII. 157-159. 8 The census was to be of " the whole number of white and other free citizens...comprehended in the foregoing description, except Indians, not paying taxes, in each State ; which number shall be triennially taken and transmitted...
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Sketches of the Lives and Judicial Services of the Chief-justices of the ...

George Van Santvoord - Electronic books - 1854 - 550 pages
...for the common defence should be defrayed out of a common treasury, supplied by the several states " in proportion to the whole number of white and other...those bound to servitude for a term of years, and three-fifths of all other persons not comprehended in the foregoing description, except Indians not...
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Annals of the Congress of the United States, Volume 1; Volume 35

United States. Congress - Law - 1855 - 714 pages
...embraced the black population. It was then proposed by Judge Wilson, of Pennsylvania, that it should be " in proportion to the whole number of white and other...including those bound to servitude for a term of years, ana three-fifths of all other persons, except Indians not paying taxes." This was followed by a proposition...
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The Debates and Proceedings in the Congress of the United States

United States. Congress - United States - 1855 - 964 pages
...&c., ' shall be defrayed out of the common treasury, ' which shall be supplied by the several States, in ' proportion to the whole number of white and '...and inhabitants of every age, ' sex, and condition," &c. Here it is acknowledged expressly that there were other free citizens besides white citizens. If...
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The Debates and Proceedings in the Congress of the United States: With an ...

Joseph Gales - United States - 1855 - 966 pages
...treasury, which shall be supplied by the several States, in proportion to the whole number of while and other free citizens and inhabitants of every age, sex, and condition," &c. Here it is acknowledged expressly that there were other free citizens besides white citizens. If...
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The True Issue, and the Duty of the Whigs: An Address Before the Citizens of ...

Joel Parker - Slavery - 1856 - 92 pages
...to be proposed to the States, providing that the quotas of the several States should be supplied " in proportion to the whole number of white and other...comprehended in the foregoing description, except Indians not paying taxes in each State." Eleven States had assented to the change at the time of the...
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Papers on Slavery, Rebellion, Etc

Joel Parker - 1856 - 554 pages
...subject, to be proposed to the States, providing that the quotas of the several States should be supplied "in proportion to the whole number of white and other...comprehended in the foregoing description, except Indians not paying taxes in each State." Eleven States had assented to the change at the time of the...
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The Constitution a Pro-slavery Compact: Or, Extracts from the Madison Papers ...

Wendell Phillips - Constitutional law - 1856 - 220 pages
...Committee of Detail. ARTICLE VII. SECT. 3. The proportions of direct ^axation shall be regulated by the whole number of white and other free citizens...all other persons not comprehended in the foregoing de* The object was to lessen the eagerness, on one side, for, and the opposition, on the other, to...
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Debates and Proceedings in the Convention of the Commonwealth of ...

Massachusetts. Convention - Constitutional history - 1856 - 470 pages
...established in the Articles of Confederation, but according to some equitable ratio of representation, viz. : in proportion to the whole number of white and other...those bound to servitude for a term of years, and threefifths of all other persons not comprehended in the foregoing description, .except Indians, not...
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Debates and Proceedings in the Convention of the Commonwealth of ...

Massachusetts. Convention - Constitutional history - 1856 - 476 pages
...equitable ratio of representation, viz. : in proportion to the whole number of white and other five citizens and inhabitants, of every age, sex and condition,...those bound to servitude for a term of years, and threefifths of all other persons not comprehended in the foregoing description, except Indians, not...
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