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" That elections of members to serve as representatives of the people, in assembly, ought to be free ; and that all men having sufficient evidence of permanent common interest with, and attachment to, the community, have the right of suffrage, and cannot... "
Commentaries on Statute and Constitutional Law and Statutory and ... - Page 154
by E. Fitch Smith - 1848 - 976 pages
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The Life of George Mason, 1725-1792, Volume 1

Kate Mason Rowland - Statesmen - 1892 - 494 pages
...sixteenth in the amended instrument. A recent writer has noticed that in the extension of the suffrage to " all men having sufficient evidence of permanent common interest with and attachment to the community," provided by the sixth article of the Bill of Rights, George Mason recurred to the theory of the Virginia...
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Calendar of Virginia State Papers and Other Manuscripts ..., Volume 11

Virginia - Virginia - 1893 - 636 pages
...fith Article of the Bill of Rights settles the question by declaring that no men can be " taxed on deprived of their property for public uses without...consent or that of their representatives so elected." The representatives referred to are clearly those constituting the legislature. In the Constitution....
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American Constitutions: Comprising the Declaration of Independence, the ...

New York (State). Constitutional Convention, George A. Glynn - Constitutional law - 1894 - 1126 pages
...former members to be again eligible or ineligible, as the laws shall direct. 8. That all elections ought to be free, and that all men having sufficient...their own consent or that of their representatives BO elected, nor bound by any law to which they have not in like manner assented for the public good....
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The Law of Eminent Domain in the United States

Carman Fitz Randolph - Eminent domain - 1894 - 604 pages
...public, the owner ought to receive an equivalent in money. VIRGINIA. Art. I., Sect. 8. That all elections ought to be free, and that all men, having sufficient...to, the community, have the right of suffrage, and caunot be taxed or deprived of their property for public uses without their own consent, or that of...
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The Convention Manual of the Sixth New York State Constitutional Convention ...

New York (State). Constitutional Convention - Constitutional conventions - 1894 - 1326 pages
...8. i. That all elections ought to be freĀ«, and that all men having sufficient evidence of paramount 2. iX. use* without their own consent or that of their representatives so elected, or bound by any law to...
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Cornell Law Journal, Volume 1

Law - 1894 - 136 pages
...the public, the owner ought to receive an equivalent in money." Virginia. 1870. Art. 1, \ 8 * * * * " That all men, having sufficient evidence of permanent...common interest with, and attachment to, the community, having the right of suffrage, and cannot be taxed or deprived of their property for public uses, without...
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Documentary History of the Constitution of the United States of America ...

United States. Bureau of Rolls and Library - Constitutional history - 1894 - 904 pages
...direct. 6th. That elections of Representatives in the legislature ought to be free and frequent, and all men having sufficient evidence of permanent common interest with, and attachment to the community, ought to have the right of suffrage: and no aid, charge, tax or fee can be set, rated, or levied upon...
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Bulletin of the Bureau of Rolls and Library of the Department of State, Issue 7

United States Bureau of Rolls and Library - Archives - 1895 - 736 pages
...direct. Sixth, That elections of representatives in the legislature ought to be free and frequent, and all men having sufficient evidence of permanent common interest with and attachment to the Community ought to have the right of suffrage: and no aid, charge, tax or fee can be set, rated, or levied upon...
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History of the United States of America: From the Discovery of the ..., Volume 4

George Bancroft - United States - 1896 - 486 pages
..." Elections of members to serve as representatives of the people in assembly ought to be free ; and all men, having sufficient evidence of permanent common...public uses without their own consent or that of their representative so elected, nor bound by any law to which they have not, in like manner, assented for...
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Constitutional Studies, State and Federal

James Schouler - Constitutional history - 1897 - 352 pages
...ought to be free,1 with a right of suffrage here broadly stated; nor should those of the community " be taxed or deprived of their property for public uses without their own consent or that of their representatives."2 There should be no suspension of laws or of their execution without consent of the...
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