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" Congress be authorized to make such requisitions 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, and three fifths of all other... "
Papers on Slavery, Rebellion, Etc - Page 40
by Joel Parker - 1856
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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
...Witherspoon was afterwards substituted for that reported by the Committee, but the final gratification of the articles did not take place until March, 1781....assented to the change at the time of the formation of the Constitution, and we have here substantially the provision which was afterwards inserted in that...
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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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American Eloquence: a Collection of Speeches and Addresses: By the ..., Volume 1

American Orators - 1857 - 624 pages
...in the articles of confederation, but according to some equitable rate of representation ; namely, 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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American Eloquence: a Collection of Speeches and Addresses: By the ..., Volume 1

American Orators - 1857 - 668 pages
...; namely, in proportion to the whole number of white, and ether free citizens and inhabitant •*, of every age, sex, and condition, including 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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American Eloquence: a Collection of Speeches and Addresses: By the ..., Volume 1

American Orators - 1857 - 610 pages
...in the articles of confederation, but according to some equitable rate of representation ; namely, in proportion to the whole number of white, and other free citizens and inhabitants, of every age, sех, and condition, including those bound to servitude for a term of years, and three-fifths of all...
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History of the Republic of the United States of America: As Traced ..., Volume 4

John Church Hamilton - United States - 1879 - 626 pages
...was to be in proportion " to the whole number of white and other free inhabitants of every age, and sex, and condition, including 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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Christian Examiner and Theological Review, Volume 65

Theology - 1858 - 476 pages
...second branch by the individual Legislatures ; that the right of suffrage in both branches ought to be " in proportion to the whole number of white and other...description, except Indians not paying taxes, in each State " ; — in other words, that the right of each State to an equal vote in Congress, which had been the...
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History of the Origin, Formation, and Adoption of the Constitution ..., Volume 2

George Ticknor Curtis - Constitutional history - 1858 - 682 pages
...forming part of the aggregate tee went on to declare that the basis of representation ought to include the whole number of white and other free citizens...those bound to servitude for a term of years ; and they then added to the population thus described three fifths of all other persons not comprehended...
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