 | United States federal convention - 1819 - 524 pagina’s
...to others. rvi. That elections of representatives in 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... | |
 | Hezekiah Niles - 1822 - 518 pagina’s
...(4) — 6. That elections of members, to serve as representatives of the people in the legislature, ought to be free, and that all men having sufficient evidence of permanent common intercut with, and attachment to the community, have the right of suffrage; and cannot be taxed, or... | |
 | Virginia, William Waller Hening - 1821 - 674 pagina’s
...members, to be again eligible, or ineligible, as the laws shall direct. Free dec- c. That elections of members to serve as representatives of the people,...that all men, having sufficient evidence of permanent Hhtof common interest with, and attachment to, the comma. nity, have the right of suffrage, and cannot... | |
 | Edward Augustus Kendall - 1826 - 554 pagina’s
...itself), above twenty-one years of age, whether freeholders or not, — who are capable of furnishing sufficient evidence — of permanent — common —...— with, and attachment • — to the community; — in such mannr as to guard against the introduction of Universal Suffrage." — Now this is the... | |
 | 1829 - 298 pagina’s
...Commonwealth. He then dilated on the advantage of limiting the right of suffrage to those, '' who have sufficient evidence of permanent common interest with, and attachment to the community as affording the best security to property and rights. He knew there could be no rule which would include... | |
 | Virginia. Constitutional Convention - 1830 - 932 pagina’s
...there be any tiling like contradiction between them. The Bill of Rights declares, that all persons " having sufficient evidence of permanent common interest with, and attachment to, the community," shall be entitled to vote. The question to be settled is, what is the true meaning of this declaration... | |
 | Virginia. Constitutional Convention - 1890 - 928 pagina’s
...by the Committee : 1. Resolved, That all persons now by law possessed of the Right of Suffrage, have sufficient evidence of permanent common interest with, and attachment to, the community, and have the Right of Suffrage. 2. Rr-iiiilri.il, That all free white males of twenty-two years of... | |
 | Joseph Martin, William Henry Brockenbrough - 1835 - 644 pagina’s
...direct. VI. 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... | |
 | United States. Congress - 1836 - 650 pagina’s
...resembling that in the constitution of the United States. In the sixth article, the language is this: " All men having sufficient evidence of permanent common...suffrage, and cannot be taxed or deprived of their properly for public uses without their own consent, or that of their representatives so elected." But... | |
 | 1841 - 460 pagina’s
...the former members, to be again eligible, or ineligible, as the laws shall direct. 6. That elections of members to serve as representatives of the people,...to, the community, have the right of suffrage, and cannotbe taxed or deprived of their property for public uses, without their own con» sent, or that... | |
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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 can. 
