The Constitution a Pro-slavery Compact: Or, Extracts from the Madison Papers, EtcWendell Phillips American anti-slavery society, 1856 - 208 páginas |
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... rule ; but that from a variety of difficulties it was a rule which could never be adopted in practice . The value of the property in every State could never be estimated justly and equally . Some other measure for the wealth of the ...
... rule ; but that from a variety of difficulties it was a rule which could never be adopted in practice . The value of the property in every State could never be estimated justly and equally . Some other measure for the wealth of the ...
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... rule of apportionment , particularly that of numbers , under certain qualifications as to slaves . p . 260 . TUESDAY , Feb. 11 , 1783 . Mr. WOLCOTT declares his opinion that the Confederation ought to be amended by substituting numbers ...
... rule of apportionment , particularly that of numbers , under certain qualifications as to slaves . p . 260 . TUESDAY , Feb. 11 , 1783 . Mr. WOLCOTT declares his opinion that the Confederation ought to be amended by substituting numbers ...
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... rule of apportionment came fully into view , Mr. MADISON ( of Virginia ) said that , in order to give a proof of the sincerity of his professions of liber- ality , he would propose that slaves should be rated as five to three . Mr ...
... rule of apportionment came fully into view , Mr. MADISON ( of Virginia ) said that , in order to give a proof of the sincerity of his professions of liber- ality , he would propose that slaves should be rated as five to three . Mr ...
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... rule , but gave it as his opinion that two slaves were not equal to one freeman . On the question of five to three , it passed in the affirmative : New Hampshire , aye ; Massachusetts , divided ; Rhode Island , no ; Connecticut , no ...
... rule , but gave it as his opinion that two slaves were not equal to one freeman . On the question of five to three , it passed in the affirmative : New Hampshire , aye ; Massachusetts , divided ; Rhode Island , no ; Connecticut , no ...
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... rule may seem best in different cases . " Colonel HAMILTON moved to alter the resolution so as to read " that the rights of suffrage in the National Legislature ought to be proportioned to the number of free inhabitants . " Mr. SPAIGHT ...
... rule may seem best in different cases . " Colonel HAMILTON moved to alter the resolution so as to read " that the rights of suffrage in the National Legislature ought to be proportioned to the number of free inhabitants . " Mr. SPAIGHT ...
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Página 165 - Shall I not visit for these things ? saith the Lord : shall not my soul be avenged on such a nation as this?
Página 13 - He has waged cruel war against human nature itself, violating its most sacred rights of life and liberty in the persons of a distant people who never offended him, captivating and carrying them into slavery in another hemisphere, or to incur miserable death in their transportation thither.
Página 14 - All charges of war, and all other expenses that shall be incurred for the common defence or general welfare, and allowed by the united states in congress assembled, shall be defrayed out of a common treasury, which shall be supplied by the several states...
Página 162 - Take counsel, execute judgment; Make thy shadow as the night in the midst of the noonday ; Hide the outcasts ; bewray not him that wandereth. Let mine outcasts dwell with thee, Moab ; Be thou a covert to them from the face of the spoiler : For the extortioner is at an end, the spoiler ceaseth, The oppressors are consumed out of the land.
Página 163 - But this is a people robbed and spoiled; they are all of them snared in holes, and they are hid in prison-houses; they are for a prey, and none delivereth, for a spoil, and none saith, Restore.
Página 192 - That, in addition to the provisions of the third paragraph of the second section of the fourth article of the Constitution of the United States...
Página 23 - Congress be authorized to make such requisitions in proportion to the whole number of white and other free citizens and inhabitants, of every age, sex, and condition, including those bound to servitude for a term of years, and three fifths of all other persons not comprehended in the foregoing description, except Indians not paying taxes...
Página 73 - For he that is called in the Lord, being a servant, is the Lord's freeman : likewise also he that is called, being free, is Christ's servant 23 Ye are bought with a price; be not ye the servants of men.
Página 154 - The iniquity of the house of Israel and Judah is exceeding great, and the land is full of blood, and the city full of perverseness: for they say, The Lord hath forsaken the earth, and the Lord seeth not.
Página 163 - That they may do evil with both hands earnestly, the prince asketh, and the judge asketh for a reward; and the great man, he uttereth his mischievous desire: so they wrap it up.