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The Works of the Honourable James Wilson, L. L. D.: Late One of the ... - Page 133
by James Wilson - 1804
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Nomination and Election of President and Vice President and Qualifications ...

United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary - Election laws - 1961 - 1102 pages
...inhabitant of twenty-one years of age and upward, having a freehold estate within the commonwealth of the annual income of three pounds, or any estate of the value of sixty pounds, shall have n ri-ht to give in his vote for the Senators for the ilistrict of which he is an inhabitant....
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Literacy Tests and Voter Requirements in Federal and State Elections ...

United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on Constitutional Rights - Literacy tests (Election law) - 1962 - 712 pages
...laws as to that qualification. For example, Massachusetts required of a voter "a freehold estate * * * of the annual income of three pounds, or any estate of the value of sixty pounds" ; Connecticut qualified only such persons as had "maturity in years, a quiet and peaceable behavior,...
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Literacy Tests and Voter Requirements in Federal and State Elections ...

United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on Constitutional Rights - Literacy tests (Election law) - 1962 - 756 pages
...inhabitant of twenty-one years of age and upwards, having a freehold estate within the Commonwealth of the annual income of three pounds, or any estate of the value of sixty pounds' ; in Rhode Island 'Such as are admitted free of the company and society' of the Colony : in Connecticut...
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Roots of the Republic: American Founding Documents Interpreted

Stephen L. Schechter - Business & Economics - 1990 - 478 pages
...aforesaid. IV. Every male person, being twenty-one years of age, and resident in any particular town in this Commonwealth for the space of one year next preceding,...pounds, or any estate of the value of sixty pounds, shall have a right to vote in the choice of a Representative or Representatives for the said town.28...
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Supreme Court Cases on Gender and Sexual Equality, 1787-2001

United States. Supreme Court, Christopher A. Anzalone - History - 2002 - 736 pages
...inhabitant of twenty-one years of age and upwards, having a freehold estate within the commonwealth of the annual income of three pounds, or any estate of the value of sixty pounds"; in Rhode Island "such as are admitted free of the company and society" of the colony; in Connecticut...
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The Works of the Honourable James Wilson, L.L.D.

James Wilson, Bird Wilson - Law - 2005 - 1436 pages
...seen, had votes in making their general laws i The freemen of Pennsylvania, as we now see, € nioy the rights of electors. This right, it has been shown,...the choice of a representative for the said town." s The right to choose representatives in Rhode Island is vested in "the freemen of the respective towns...
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Democracy for All: Restoring Immigrant Voting Rights in the United States

Ronald Hayduk - Political Science - 2006 - 262 pages
...reads, "Every male person, being twenty-one years of age, and resident in any particular town in this Commonwealth for the space of one year next preceding,...pounds, or any estate of the value of sixty pounds, shall have a right to vote in the choice of a Representative, or representatives for the said town."13...
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The Jeffersonian Transformation: Passages From The "History"

Henry Adams - History - 2006 - 244 pages
...already restricted the suffrage to persons "having a freehold estate within the commonwealth of an annual income of three pounds, or any estate of the value of sixty pounds." A further restriction to freeholders whose estate was worth two thousand dollars would hardly have...
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Acts and Resolves Passed by the General Court of Massachusetts

Massachusetts - Law - 1879 - 480 pages
...[IV. Every male person being twenty-one years of age, and resi • dent in any particular town in this Commonwealth, for the space of one year next preceding,...pounds, or any estate of the value of sixty pounds, shall have a right to vote in the choice of a representative or representatives for the said town.]...
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LITTELL'S LIVING AGE.

1868 - 1108 pages
...— " Every male person (being twenty-one years of age, and resident in any particular town in this Commonwealth for the space of one year next preceding)...pounds, or any^ estate of the value of sixty pounds, shall have a right to vote in the choice of a representative or representatives for the said town."...
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