Democracy, Liberty, and Property
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Original © 1966 by The Bobbs-Merrill Company, Inc. Originally published as part of the American Heritage Series under the general editorship of Leonard W. Levy and Alfred Young. Foreword to the Liberty Fund edition and index © 2010 by Liberty Fund, Inc.
This eBook edition published in 2011.
eBook ISBN: E-PUB 978-1-61487-134-7
CONTENTS
Foreword to the Liberty Fund Edition, with Suggested Further Reading, by G. Alan Tarr
I The Massachusetts Convention of 1820–1821
6. The Basis of Representation
7. Joseph Story on Representation
8. Daniel Webster on Representation
9. “Address to the People”
TABLES
1.1 The Massachusetts Counties in Relation to Legislative Representation
1.2 The Division of the Vote by Counties on Two Questions in the Massachusetts Convention
10. Statement of the Votes for and against the Articles of Amendment, in the Several Counties
II The New York Convention of 1821
Introduction
Chronology
11. The Council of Revision and the Veto Power
12. The Term of the Governor
13. The Appointive Power
14. The Senate and the Suffrage
15. The Negro and the Suffrage
16. Blasphemy and Libel
17. Reform of the Judiciary
TABLES
2.1 The Vote by Districts on the Convention Bill, Suffrage, and Judicial Reform, and the Revised Constitution, in the New York Convention
2.2 The Vote of Radicals and Conservatives on Selected Questions in the New York Convention
III The Virginia Convention of 1829–1830s
Introduction
Chronology
Representation
18. Cooke on Democratic Representation
19. Upshur on Majorities and Minorities
20. Doddridge in Rebuttal
21. Leigh on Power and Property
22. Randolph on the Federal Issue
23. Marshall on Compromise
24. Summers on the Gordon Plan
25. Gordon on the Gordon Plan
The Suffrage
26. The Non-Freeholders’ Memorial
27. The Freehold Suffrage Defended
28. The Reformers’ Rebuttal
Structure and Change
29. The Executive
30. The County Courts
31. The Amendment Article
32. The Question of Ratification
TABLES
3.1 Population and Representation in Virginia by Districts, 1820–1830, and the Vote on Ratification of the Constitution of 1830
3.2 The Sectional Division on Selected Questions in the Virginia Convention
Index
