Proportional RepresentationT. Y. Crowell & Company, 1896 - 298 Seiten |
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Seite 16 - Parliament is not a congress of ambassadors from different and hostile interests ; which interests each must maintain, as an agent and advocate, against other agents and advocates ; but parliament is a deliberative assembly of one nation, with one interest, that of the whole ; where, not local purposes, not local prejudices ought to guide, but the general good, resulting from the general reason of the whole.
Seite 285 - Commonwealth by the adoption of the subjoined article of amendment ; and that the said article, being agreed to by a majority of the senators and two-thirds of the members of the house of representatives present and voting thereon, be entered on the journals of both houses, with the yeas and nays taken thereon, and referred to the general court next to be chosen...
Seite 285 - AND in order to provide for a representation of the citizens of this Commonwealth, founded upon the principle of equality...
Seite 52 - February 1812, providing for a new division of the State into senatorial districts, so contrived that in as many districts as possible the Federalists should be outnumbered by their opponents. To effect this all natural and customary lines were disregarded, and some parts of the State, particularly the counties of Worcester and Essex, presented similar examples of political geography.
Seite 285 - ... be entered on the journals of both houses, with the yeas and nays taken thereon, and referred to the General Court next to be chosen ; and that the said article be published, to the end that if agreed to in the manner provided by the Constitution, by the General Court next to be chosen...
Seite 243 - In the first place there is apt to be a feeling of great soreness when a very considerable number of electors, such as I have mentioned, are completely shut out from a share in the representation of one place. . . . But in the next place I think that the more you have your representation confined to large populations, the more ought you to take care that there should be some kind of balance, and that the large places sending members to this house should send those who represent the community at large....
Seite 59 - When I was first elected to Congress, in the fall of 1862, the State of Ohio had a clear Republican majority of about 25,000 ; but, by the adjustment and distribution of political power in the State, there were 14 Democratic representatives upon this floor, and only 5 Republicans.
Seite 260 - ... shall be entitled to vote at such election in the election district of which he shall at the time be a resident, and not elsewhere, for all officers that now are or hereafter may be elective by the people...
Seite 120 - Each industrial union shall have as many votes as there are persons to be elected by its division...