Proceedings and Debates of the Virginia State Convention of 1829-1830, Volume 1Da Capo Press, 1830 - 919 páginas |
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... minority to the majority . For the right of deliberation and election necessarily involves some decision between the men or the measures which are the subject of deliberation and election . All deliberation must come to a close , and ...
... minority to the majority . For the right of deliberation and election necessarily involves some decision between the men or the measures which are the subject of deliberation and election . All deliberation must come to a close , and ...
Página 61
... minority , and appress them by this and every other species of fiscal exaction . And yet the very reverse is the fact . For the slave - holders , invested with supreme power , and urged to its exercise by their interest , " have not ...
... minority , and appress them by this and every other species of fiscal exaction . And yet the very reverse is the fact . For the slave - holders , invested with supreme power , and urged to its exercise by their interest , " have not ...
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... minority for their own benefit ? My first proposition in support of the amendment is this : that it is perfectly certain that in a Very short time , possibly within ten years , the majority of the free white inhabitants of this State ...
... minority for their own benefit ? My first proposition in support of the amendment is this : that it is perfectly certain that in a Very short time , possibly within ten years , the majority of the free white inhabitants of this State ...
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... minority . I have been forcibly struck with the fact , that in all the arguments upon this subject here and elsewhere , this right in a majority is assumed as a postulate . It has not yet been proved , nor have I even heard an attempt ...
... minority . I have been forcibly struck with the fact , that in all the arguments upon this subject here and elsewhere , this right in a majority is assumed as a postulate . It has not yet been proved , nor have I even heard an attempt ...
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... minority . The case is quite as apt to occur , and quite as easy to be supposed , as that state of existence to which it refers , and from which gentlemen borrow their argu- ment . And the necessary conclusion , upon the hypothesis ...
... minority . The case is quite as apt to occur , and quite as easy to be supposed , as that state of existence to which it refers , and from which gentlemen borrow their argu- ment . And the necessary conclusion , upon the hypothesis ...
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