Official Report of the Debates and Proceedings in the State Convention: Assembled May 4th, 1853, to Revise and Amend the Constitution of the Commonwealth of MassachusettsWhite & Potter, printers, 1853 |
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... result of sixty years of pro- gress . Will gentlemen go back twenty years ? That is the question before us . I would rather go forward . That seems to me to answer the whole of that part of the question . There is another question which ...
... result of sixty years of pro- gress . Will gentlemen go back twenty years ? That is the question before us . I would rather go forward . That seems to me to answer the whole of that part of the question . There is another question which ...
Side 123
... result to which the argument of con- venience leads . But , Sir , I believe the great question is not what is most convenient , but what is most proper and just . But , again , it has been said , or may be said- for I shall endeavor to ...
... result to which the argument of con- venience leads . But , Sir , I believe the great question is not what is most convenient , but what is most proper and just . But , again , it has been said , or may be said- for I shall endeavor to ...
Side 124
... result . He may vote according to his convictions of right , in order to bear his testimony against wrong , but so far as any politi- cal effect is concerned , he might just as well not vote at all . He finds himself a political cipher ...
... result . He may vote according to his convictions of right , in order to bear his testimony against wrong , but so far as any politi- cal effect is concerned , he might just as well not vote at all . He finds himself a political cipher ...
Side 130
... result of the present system of voting in this Commonwealth . I hope , therefore , that gentlemen , in debating this ques- tion , will debate it in reference to the other question - of how many of these officers , if not all of them ...
... result of the present system of voting in this Commonwealth . I hope , therefore , that gentlemen , in debating this ques- tion , will debate it in reference to the other question - of how many of these officers , if not all of them ...
Side 134
... result . When we came to this Convention , I trust that we all came with a determination to leave all party predilections behind us , and to look entirely to what is commonly called the good of the Com- monwealth , and the people of the ...
... result . When we came to this Convention , I trust that we all came with a determination to leave all party predilections behind us , and to look entirely to what is commonly called the good of the Com- monwealth , and the people of the ...
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Official Report of the Debates and Proceedings in the State ..., Volumer 1-2 Massachusetts. Constitutional Convention Uten tilgangsbegrensning - 1853 |
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Abington adjourn adopted agree appointed argument ballot believe body BUTLER called Chairman Charlestown Committee Commonwealth Commonwealth of Massachusetts consider Constitution as relates Convention Council court debate Dedham delegates desire districts duties ELECTIONS BY PLURALITY expedient Fall River favor Freetown gentleman from Boston gentleman from Lowell governor hall HALLETT Haverhill hope House of Representatives inhabitants KEYES lature legal voters legislative legislature lieutenant-governor Lowell Institute majority principle majority system matter meet ment mittee Monday MORTON motion Natick North Brookfield number of votes o'clock oath officers opinion pardoning party persons Pittsfield plurality system Plymouth present President proposed proposition question reason referred regard Report representation resolution Resolved rule SCHOULER seems Senate session stitution submitted suppose taken Taunton tion tleman town of Berlin town of Walpole United vacancy vention whole Wilbraham WILSON wish word