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.
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| Year of Publication: | 2010 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | xxvii, 412 p. |
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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.