Democracy, liberty, and property
Subtitle: the state Constitutional Conventions of the 1820s
By: edited by Merrill D. Peterson ; with a foreword to the Liberty Fund edition by G. Alan Tarr.x.
Publisher: Liberty Fund
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Indianapolis, Ind
Language: eng
Number of pages: 412
ISBN-13: 9780865977884; 9780865977891
Subjects: Constitutional history; Constitutional conventions; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [xxv]-xxvii) and index.
Table of contents: title: The test oath; title: The Third Article; title: The "poll parish"; title: Tax exemption; title: The suffrage; title: The basis of representation; title: Joseph Story on representation; title: Daniel Webster on representation; title: "Address to the people"; title: Statement of the votes for and against the Articles of Amendment, in the several counties; title: The Council of Revision and the veto power; title: The term of the governor; title: The appointive power; title: The Senate and the suffrage; title: The Negro and the suffrage; title: Blasphemy and libel; title: Reform of the judiciary; title: Cooke on democratic representation; title: Upshur on majorities and minorities; title: Doddridge in rebuttal; title: Leigh on power and property; title: Randolph on the federal issue; title: Marshall on compromise; title: Summers on the Gordon plan; title: Gordon on the Gordon plan; title: The non-freeholders' memorial; title: The freehold suffrage defended; title: The reformers' rebuttal; title: The executive; title: The county courts; title: The amendment article; title: The question of ratification.