 | Virginia. Constitutional Convention - Constitutional conventions - 1830 - 932 pages
...most conducive to the public weal." The sixth affirms, that " elections ought to be free, and that all men, having sufficient evidence of permanent,...common interest with, and attachment to, the community, have the Right of Suffrage." Now, Mr. Chairman, if I were to ask a plain nmn, who were entitled to... | |
 | Virginia. Constitutional Convention - Constitutional conventions - 1890 - 928 pages
...Rights declares, " that election of members to the General Assembly ought to be free, and that nil men having sufficient 'evidence of permanent common interest with, and attachment to, the community, have the Right of Suffrage." And yet so much has been said on the necessity of disfranchising the soldier... | |
 | Virginia - Law - 1833 - 604 pages
...elections of members to serve as representatives of the people, in assembly, ought to be free ; and that all men, having sufficient evidence of permanent common interest with, and attachment to, the community, have the right of suffrage, and cannot be taxed or deprived of their property for public uses, without... | |
 | United States. Congress - Law - 1836 - 650 pages
...resembling that in the constitution of the United States. In the sixth article, the language is this: " All men having sufficient evidence of permanent common interest with, and attachment to, the community, have the right of suffrage, and cannot be taxed or deprived of their properly for public uses without... | |
 | Speeches, Addresses, etc., American - 1836 - 552 pages
...elections of members to serve as representatives of the people in assembly, ought to be free, and that all men, having sufficient evidence of permanent,...common interest with, and attachment to, the community, have the right of suffrage, and cannot be taxed or deprived of their property, for public uses, without... | |
 | Speeches, Addresses, etc., American - 1836 - 550 pages
...elections of members to serve as representatives of the people in assembly, ought to be free, and that all men, having sufficient evidence of permanent,...common interest with, and attachment to, the community, have the right of suffrage, and cannot be taxed or deprived of their property, for public uses, without... | |
 | Speeches, addresses, etc., American - 1840 - 554 pages
...elections of members to serve as representatives of the people in assembly, ought to be free, and that all men, having sufficient evidence of permanent,...common interest with, and attachment to, the community, have the right of suffrage, and cannot be taxed or deprived of their property, for public uses, without... | |
 | Presidents - 1841 - 460 pages
...elections of members to serve as representatives of the people, in Assembly, ought to be free; and that all men having sufficient evidence of permanent common interest with, and attachment to, the community, have the right of suffrage, and cannotbe taxed or deprived of their property for public uses, without... | |
 | 1841 - 908 pages
...in our judgment, •baud be Ihe principle proclaimed in the Virginia Bill of Rights, namely: that " all men having sufficient evidence of permanent common interest with, and attachment to the community, should have the right of suffrage," and no other. A just and prudent application of this principle... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1841 - 1092 pages
...fewest exclusions. • It is well expressed in the bill of rights of one of our sister States, that "all men having sufficient evidence of permanent common interest with, and attachment to the community, have a right of suffrage." This is sound as general principle, but is not sufficiently definite for... | |
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That elections of members to serve as representatives of the people, in assembly, ought to be free; and that all men, having sufficient evidence of permanent common interest with, and attachment to, the community, have the right of suffrage, and cannot... 
