Official Report of the Debates and Proceedings in the State Convention, Assembled May 4th, 1853, to Revise and Amend the Constitution of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, Volume 2White & Potter, printers, 1853 - 2631 pages |
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... agree , and this is saying a good deal , but I take the risk , and will agree to take the gentlemen around me , and make them ready for all the purposes connected with arms , in less time than they will be ready to present a Consti ...
... agree , and this is saying a good deal , but I take the risk , and will agree to take the gentlemen around me , and make them ready for all the purposes connected with arms , in less time than they will be ready to present a Consti ...
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... agree with the gentleman there . The mistake is in attempting to give representation to the town itself , to the lifeless inanimate corporation , and on this principle the town of one thousand is entitled to just as many representatives ...
... agree with the gentleman there . The mistake is in attempting to give representation to the town itself , to the lifeless inanimate corporation , and on this principle the town of one thousand is entitled to just as many representatives ...
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... agree to. Tuesday , ] Constitution . [ June 21st . power be permanently retained in the hands of one - third of the people . It cannot be done . The great popular pulse will keep beating against these restraints , and by and by they will ...
... agree to. Tuesday , ] Constitution . [ June 21st . power be permanently retained in the hands of one - third of the people . It cannot be done . The great popular pulse will keep beating against these restraints , and by and by they will ...
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... agree to that ,. Tuesday , ] spoken against the Majority Report very clearly , forcibly , and eloquently ; and after having used up the Majority Report have turned round and devoured the Minority Report also . The gentle- man who spoke ...
... agree to that ,. Tuesday , ] spoken against the Majority Report very clearly , forcibly , and eloquently ; and after having used up the Majority Report have turned round and devoured the Minority Report also . The gentle- man who spoke ...
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... agree to that . [ June 21st . I think myself , that something like taxation and representation ought to go together , at any rate to come within speaking distance of cach other . Why should you separate them ? Not representation because ...
... agree to that . [ June 21st . I think myself , that something like taxation and representation ought to go together , at any rate to come within speaking distance of cach other . Why should you separate them ? Not representation because ...
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