Economic Tracts, Volumes 21-31Society for Political Education, 1886 - Economics |
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... voters of each State choose , in November of each fourth year , as many electors as the State has senators and representatives together , and those of each . State meet at the capital of the State and cast their votes both for President ...
... voters of each State choose , in November of each fourth year , as many electors as the State has senators and representatives together , and those of each . State meet at the capital of the State and cast their votes both for President ...
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... voters to be able to read . Massachusetts , Rhode Island , Pennsyl- vania , Delaware , Missouri , and Georgia deny the right of suffrage to non - taxpayers , and Rhode Island requires a property qualification of $ 134 . In Colorado ...
... voters to be able to read . Massachusetts , Rhode Island , Pennsyl- vania , Delaware , Missouri , and Georgia deny the right of suffrage to non - taxpayers , and Rhode Island requires a property qualification of $ 134 . In Colorado ...
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... voter enter- ing the polling - place has already received from the proper officer a single ballot , on which are plainly printed the various officials to be voted for and the candidates for each office , with the parties they represent ...
... voter enter- ing the polling - place has already received from the proper officer a single ballot , on which are plainly printed the various officials to be voted for and the candidates for each office , with the parties they represent ...
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... voter's expression of his will at the polls . Nor was he oblivious to the advantages whereby secret voting makes one vice overset another : he saw that untrustworthiness to do the thing for which a bribe is paid must always be sus ...
... voter's expression of his will at the polls . Nor was he oblivious to the advantages whereby secret voting makes one vice overset another : he saw that untrustworthiness to do the thing for which a bribe is paid must always be sus ...
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... voter would be personally known to the officer in whose pres- ence he dropped his folded ballot was fulfilled in fact . The simple safeguard of challenge prevented personation . populations grew dense , officers could not know all who ...
... voter would be personally known to the officer in whose pres- ence he dropped his folded ballot was fulfilled in fact . The simple safeguard of challenge prevented personation . populations grew dense , officers could not know all who ...
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Page 66 - Grotius de Jure Belli et Pacis, with the Notes of Barbeyrac and others ; accompanied by an abridged Translation of the Text, by W. WHEWELL, DD late Master of Trinity College. 3 Vols. Demy Octavo, 1 2 s.
Page 161 - The Constitution of the United States is a law for rulers and people, equally in war and in peace, and covers with the shield of its protection all classes of men, at all times, and under all circumstances. No doctrine, involving more pernicious consequences, was ever invented by the wit of man, than that any of its provisions can be suspended during any of the great exigencies of government.
Page 2 - If a voter marks more names than there are persons to be elected to an office, or if for any reason it is impossible to determine the voter's choice for any office to be filled, his ballot shall not be counted for such office.
Page 1 - Before leaving the voting shelf or compartment the voter shall fold his ballot, without displaying the marks thereon, in the same way it was folded when received by him, and he shall keep the same so folded until he has voted.
Page 163 - States with powers for domestic and local government, including the regulation of civil rights — the rights of person and of property — was essential to the perfect working of our complex form of government...
Page 163 - What these fundamental principles are, it would perhaps be more tedious than difficult to enumerate. They may, however, be all comprehended under the following general heads : protection by the government; the enjoyment of life and liberty, with the right to acquire and possess property of every kind, and to pursue and obtain happiness and safety ; subject nevertheless to such restraints as the government may justly prescribe for the general good of the whole.
Page 15 - A Plea for the Constitution of the United States of America, Wounded in the House of Its Guardians; but popular judgment on the whole was favorable.
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Page 8 - Whenever a proposed constitutional amendment or other question is to be submitted to the people of the State for popular vote, the Secretary of State shall duly, and not less than thirty days before election, certify the same to the clerk of each county...