Research Catalog

Details

Additional authors

1. Peterson, Merrill D.

Description

1. xxvii, 412 p.; 24 cm.

Subject

1. Constitutional conventions > Massachusetts > History
2. Constitutional conventions > New York (State) > History
3. Constitutional conventions > Virginia > History
4. Constitutional history > Massachusetts
5. Constitutional history > New York (State)
6. Constitutional history > Virginia

Contents

1. The test oath -- The Third Article -- The "poll parish" -- Tax exemption -- The suffrage -- The basis of representation -- Joseph Story on representation -- Daniel Webster on representation -- "Address to the people" -- Statement of the votes for and against the Articles of Amendment, in the several counties -- The Council of Revision and the veto power -- The term of the governor -- The appointive power -- The Senate and the suffrage -- The Negro and the suffrage -- Blasphemy and libel -- Reform of the judiciary -- Cooke on democratic representation -- Upshur on majorities and minorities -- Doddridge in rebuttal -- Leigh on power and property -- Randolph on the federal issue -- Marshall on compromise -- Summers on the Gordon plan -- Gordon on the Gordon plan -- The non-freeholders' memorial -- The freehold suffrage defended -- The reformers' rebuttal -- The executive -- The county courts -- The amendment article -- The question of ratification.

Owning institution

1. Princeton University Library

Bibliography (note)

1. Includes bibliographical references and index.