 | United States Bureau of Rolls and Library - Archives - 1895 - 736 pages
...direct. Sixth, That elections of representatives in the legislature ought to be 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... | |
 | Duke University. Trinity College Historical Society - North Carolina - 1897 - 720 pages
...direct. "6. That elections of representatives In the legislature ought to be 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... | |
 | Hu Maxwell, Howard Llewellyn Swisher - Hampshire County (W. Va.) - 1897 - 778 pages
...establish. It was for no other reason than that they were not assessed with enough property to give "sufficient evidence of permanent common interest •with and attachment to the community." This notion had been brought from England, and had been fastened upon the colony of Virginia so firmly... | |
 | Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay - Constitutional law - 1898 - 884 pages
...direct. 6th. That elections of representatives in the legislature ought to be 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... | |
 | Charles Sumner - Speeches, addresses, etc., American - 1900 - 398 pages
...inconsistent and uncandid. By the Declaration of Rights prefixed to her Constitution it was announced that "ALL MEN, having sufficient evidence of permanent...attachment to the community, have the right of suffrage," without distinction of color ; and it is added, that they " cannot be taxed or deprived of their property... | |
 | Mabel Hill - Constitutional history - 1901 - 492 pages
...former members to be again eligible or ineligible, as the laws shall direct. VI. That all elections ought to be free, and that all men having sufficient...permanent common interest with, and attachment to the comConflrmatio Chartarum. VI. Magna Charta, 3940. Habeas Corpus Act. Trial by Jury. Writs of Assistance... | |
 | Virginia - Constitutional law - 1901 - 220 pages
...has been no change in this section except in the first clause, which was originally as follows : " That elections of members to serve as representatives of the people, in assembly, ought to be free." The present form was adopted at the revision of 1851, when the election of all officers, with but few... | |
 | David Loyd Pulliam - Constitutional conventions - 1901 - 188 pages
...' ' 6. That the elections of Representatives in the Legislature ought to be 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... | |
 | Virginia. Constitutional Convention - Constitutional conventions - 1901 - 1232 pages
...former members shall be again eligible, or ineligible, as the laws may direct. 6. 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,... | |
 | Frank Strong, Joseph Schafer - Oregon - 1901 - 272 pages
...officers ought to be chosen at " frequent, certain, and regular elections." (/) " That all elections ought to be free, and that all men having sufficient evidence of common interest with and attachment to the community have the right of suffrage." (g) " That in all... | |
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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 
