The Constitutional Conventions of Virginia from the Foundation of the Commonwealth to the Present TimeJ. T. West, 1901 - 180 páginas |
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... citizens , statesmen , and orators to this Federal Convention , in order to remove the evils of the existing system . An Act was passed , October , 1786 , by the General Assembly of Virginia , by ballot of both Houses , ap- pointing ...
... citizens , statesmen , and orators to this Federal Convention , in order to remove the evils of the existing system . An Act was passed , October , 1786 , by the General Assembly of Virginia , by ballot of both Houses , ap- pointing ...
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... citizens conspicuous for their talent , reputation and integrity . The sessions of this Assembly were public and in the face of the whole world . The members differed upon some of the subordinate expedients , but all agreed as to the ...
... citizens conspicuous for their talent , reputation and integrity . The sessions of this Assembly were public and in the face of the whole world . The members differed upon some of the subordinate expedients , but all agreed as to the ...
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... citizens who were not free- holders from the right to vote was one of the prominent subjects of debate and controversy . It was to the interest of the people residing east of the mountains to exclude them , and adhere to the old rule ...
... citizens who were not free- holders from the right to vote was one of the prominent subjects of debate and controversy . It was to the interest of the people residing east of the mountains to exclude them , and adhere to the old rule ...
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... citizens of other States ; many foreigners , who sought instruction and amusement in the debates and surpassing eloquence of the members ; and the families of these notable people , who came to enjoy the " feast of reason and the flow ...
... citizens of other States ; many foreigners , who sought instruction and amusement in the debates and surpassing eloquence of the members ; and the families of these notable people , who came to enjoy the " feast of reason and the flow ...
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... citizen of the Commonwealth , resident therein , aged twenty - one years and upwards , being qualified to exercise the right of suffrage according to the former Constitution and laws ; and every such citizen , being possessed , or whose ...
... citizen of the Commonwealth , resident therein , aged twenty - one years and upwards , being qualified to exercise the right of suffrage according to the former Constitution and laws ; and every such citizen , being possessed , or whose ...
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Página 42 - That religion or the duty which we owe to our Creator, and the manner of discharging it, can be directed only by reason and conviction, not by force or violence ; and, therefore, all men are equally entitled to the free exercise of religion, according to the dictates of conscience ; and that it is the mutual duty of all to practice Christian forbearance, love and charity towards each other.
Página 131 - I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic, that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same, that I take this obligation freely, without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion, and that I will well and faithfully discharge the duties of the office on which I am about to enter. So help me God.
Página 43 - ... delegate ; and the delegates of a state or any of them, at his or their request, shall be furnished with a transcript of the said journal, except such...
Página 140 - ... and if, in the Legislature so next chosen as aforesaid, such proposed amendment or amendments shall be agreed to by a majority of all the members elected to each House, then it shall be the duty of the Legislature to submit such proposed amendment or amendments to the people in such manner and at such time as the Legislature shall prescribe...
Página 131 - I have neither sought, nor accepted, nor attempted to exercise the functions of any office whatever, under any authority or pretended authority in hostility to the United States; that I have not yielded a voluntary support to any pretended government, authority, power, or constitution within the United States, hostile or inimical thereto.
Página 175 - That, in all capital or criminal prosecutions, a man hath a right to demand the cause and nature of his accusation...
Página 140 - Any amendment or amendments to this constitution may be proposed in the senate and assembly; and if the same shall be agreed to by a majority of the members elected to each of the two houses, such proposed amendment or amendments shall be entered on their journals with the yeas and nays taken thereon, and referred to the legislature to be chosen at the next general election of senators...
Página 41 - ... they should, at fixed periods, be reduced to a private station, return into that body from which they were originally taken, and the vacancies be supplied by frequent, certain, and regular elections, in which all, or any part of the former members to be again eligible or ineligible, as the laws shall direct.
Página 12 - That the delegates appointed to represent this colony in General Congress, be instructed to propose to that respectable body to declare the United Colonies free and independent states, absolved from all allegiance to, or dependence upon, the crown or parliament of Great Britain...
Página 45 - Virginia, declare and make known, that the powers granted under the Constitution, being derived from the people of the United States, may be resumed by them, whensoever the same shall be perverted to their injury or oppression, and that every power not granted thereby remains with them, and at their will...