Democracy, liberty, and property : the state Constitutional Conventions of the 1820s / / edited by Merrill D. Peterson ; with a foreword to the Liberty Fund edition by G. Alan Tarr.

• Author: ProQuest (Firm)
• TeilnehmendeR: Peterson, Merrill D.; ProQuest (Firm)
• Year of Publication: 2010
• Language: English
• Physical Description: xxvii, 412 p.

Table of Contents

The test oath -- The Third Article -- The "poll parish" -- Tax exemption -- The suffrage -- The basis of representation -- Joseph Story on representation -- Daniel Webster on representation -- "Address to the people" -- Statement of the votes for and against the Articles of Amendment, in the several counties -- The Council of Revision and the veto power -- The term of the governor -- The appointive power -- The Senate and the suffrage -- The Negro and the suffrage -- Blasphemy and libel -- Reform of the judiciary -- Cooke on democratic representation -- Upshur on majorities and minorities -- Doddridge in rebuttal -- Leigh on power and property -- Randolph on the federal issue -- Marshall on compromise -- Summers on the Gordon plan -- Gordon on the Gordon plan -- The non-freeholders' memorial -- The freehold suffrage defended -- The reformers' rebuttal -- The executive -- The county courts -- The amendment article -- The question of ratification.