| ALLEN THORNDIKE RICE - 1879 - 718 pages
...elections. 6. That elections of members, to serve as representatives of the people in the Legislature, ought to be free, and that all men having sufficient...to the community, have the right of suffrage ; and can not be taxed or deprived of their property for public uses without their own consent, or that of... | |
| Peleg Whitman Chandler - Governors - 1880 - 332 pages
...Electors on equal terms with other citizens. And even Virginia declares, in her ancient Bill of Rights, "that all men having sufficient evidence of permanent...attachment to the community, have the right of suffrage." Wherever free colored men were recognized as free citizens or subjects, but were, nevertheless, not... | |
| Ohio State Bar Association - Bar associations - 1908 - 212 pages
...entitled to exclusive or separate emoluments or privileges from the community. "That all elections ought to be free and that all men having sufficient...attachment to, the community have the right of suffrage. "That no free government or the blessings of liberty can be preserved to any people, but by a firm... | |
| John Esten Cooke - Virginia - 1883 - 578 pages
...is found inadequate or hostile, " a majority of the community has the right to alter or abolish it." All men having " sufficient evidence of permanent...common interest with, and attachment to, the community " should have the right of suffrage. The freedom of the press is " one of the great bulwarks of liberty... | |
| George Bancroft - United States - 1884 - 480 pages
...originally taken, and the vacancies be supplied by frequent, certain, and regular elections. " Elections of members to serve as representatives of the people in assembly ought to be free; and all men, having sufficient evidence of permanent common interest with, and attachment to, the community,... | |
| Law reports, digests, etc - 1913 - 1372 pages
...support of the government This continued in force until I860. Virginia : By the Constitution of 1776 to all men having sufficient evidence of permanent common interest with and attachment to the Constitution. By the Constitution of 1830 it was restricted to every white male citizen having qualifications... | |
| George Bancroft - United States - 1886 - 486 pages
...originally taken, and the vacancies be supplied by frequent, certain, and regular elections. " Elections of members to serve as representatives of the people in assembly ought to be free; and all men, having sufficient evidence of permanent common interest with, and attachment to, the community,... | |
| United States. Congress. House - United States - 1408 pages
...difect. " VI. That elections of representatives in the Legislature ought to he free and frequent ; and all men having sufficient evidence of permanent common interest with, and attachment to, the community, ought to have the right of suffrage; and no aid, charge, tax, or fee can be set, rated, or levied upon... | |
| Victoria Claflin Woodhull, Lady Tennessee Claflin Cook - Ethics - 1890 - 640 pages
...government, denounced as tyranny? But let us hear more of the principles which actuated our fathers : " All men having sufficient evidence of permanent common...interest with, and attachment to, the community, have he right of suffrage, and cannot be taxed or deprived of their property for public uses without their... | |
| Electronic journals - 1890 - 986 pages
...Rights comprised in the First Article, and declaring, among other things — "8. That all elections ought to be free, and that all men, having sufficient evidence of permanent common interests with, and attachment to, the community, have the right of suffrage, and cannot be taxed or... | |
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