 In future times a great majority of the people will not only be without landed, but any other sort of, property. These will either combine under the influence of their common situation ; in which case, the rights of property and the public liberty will...  The Atlantic Monthly - Page 3931914Full view - About this book
 | Charles Austin Beard - Political science - 1910 - 798 pages
...danger." * And again, in support of the argument for a property qualification on voters, Madison urged: "In future times, a great majority of the people will not only be without landed, but any other sort of property. These will either combine, under the influence of their common... | |
 | United States. Constitutional Convention - Constitutional conventions - 1911 - 690 pages
...several of the States a freehold was now the qualification. Viewing the subject in its merits alone, the freeholders of the Country would be the safest...depositories of Republican liberty. In future times a Tuesday MADISON August 7 great majority of the people will not only be without landed, but any other... | |
 | Charles Austin Beard - United States - 1912 - 144 pages
...danger." 1 And again, in support of the argument for a property qualification on voters, Madison urged, "In future times, a great majority of the people will not only be without landed, but any other sort of property. These will either combine, under the influence of their common... | |
 | Charles Austin Beard - United States - 1914 - 816 pages
...danger." ' And again, in support of the argument for a property qualification on voters, Madison urged: " In future times, a great majority of the people will not only be without landed, but any other sort of property. These will either combine, under the influence of their common... | |
 | Edwin Wiley - United States - 1915 - 800 pages
...several of the States a freehold was now the qualification. Viewing the subject on its merits alone, the freeholders of the Country would be the safest...great majority of the people will not only be without landed but any other sort of property. These will either combine under the influence of their common... | |
 | Henry St. George Tucker - State rights - 1916 - 226 pages
...several of the States a freehold was now the qualification. Viewing the subject on its merits alone, the freeholders of the country would be the safest depositories of republican liberty. In future tunes a great majority of the people will not only be without land, but any other sort of property.... | |
 | Newell LeRoy Sims - Democracy - 1917 - 368 pages
...before the Constitutional Convention at Philadelphia he said: Viewing the subject on its merits alone, the freeholders of the country would be the safest...great majority of the people will not only be without landed, but any other sort of property. These will either combine under the influence of their common... | |
 | Labor unions - 1924 - 644 pages
...against the danger from the propertyless, thereby admitting a conflict of interests, when he said : "In future times a great majority of the people will not only be without land but without any other sort of property. These will combine under the influence of their common... | |
 | Democracy - 1941 - 120 pages
...the right was not exercised by every description of people. Viewing the subject on its merits alone, the freeholders of the country would be the safest depositories of Republican liberty.—James Madison (1787). Should things go wrong at any time, the people will set them to rights... | |
 | United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary - Election law - 1942 - 114 pages
...national elections ought not to be left to the States, arguing that viewing the subject on its merits, "the freeholders of the country would be the safest depositories of republican liberty." The Morris proposal was rejected and the questions of property as well as other qualifications were... | |
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