The True Theory of Representation in a State ...Longman, Brown, Green, Longmans, and Roberts, 1857 - Representative government and representation - 101 pages |
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... suffrage being contemplated , or the votes of the majority being allowed to bind the nation , he proposed to confer the electoral franchise on those only who had a certain interest in the land . † Our great constitutional writer , Sir ...
... suffrage being contemplated , or the votes of the majority being allowed to bind the nation , he proposed to confer the electoral franchise on those only who had a certain interest in the land . † Our great constitutional writer , Sir ...
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... suffrage . Taxation is , happily , but a very small part of the duty of a legislator ; and even if it was more important , the principle as determined by this is most unjust . The rule is , in fact , adopted , if the truth may be told ...
... suffrage . Taxation is , happily , but a very small part of the duty of a legislator ; and even if it was more important , the principle as determined by this is most unjust . The rule is , in fact , adopted , if the truth may be told ...
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... suffrage ? Has it been discovered by any process of divination that renting a house of a certain amount confers intellectual or moral qualifications , so as at once to adapt a person for the right exercise of the suffrage ? If not , why ...
... suffrage ? Has it been discovered by any process of divination that renting a house of a certain amount confers intellectual or moral qualifications , so as at once to adapt a person for the right exercise of the suffrage ? If not , why ...
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... suffrage to those alone who are thus qualified was a new principle altogether , — strictly , indeed , in accordance with the money- loving spirit of the age . Thus , freemen , and those who were distinguished by the uneuphonious title ...
... suffrage to those alone who are thus qualified was a new principle altogether , — strictly , indeed , in accordance with the money- loving spirit of the age . Thus , freemen , and those who were distinguished by the uneuphonious title ...
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... represented by the votes of those of the constituency who are engaged in this pur- suit , but who possess the suffrage not from their occupation , but on account of something quite in- dependent 34 THE PROFESSIONAL INTEREST .
... represented by the votes of those of the constituency who are engaged in this pur- suit , but who possess the suffrage not from their occupation , but on account of something quite in- dependent 34 THE PROFESSIONAL INTEREST .
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