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001 2006034306
003 DLC
005 20080109083428.0
008 061012r20071842nju b 000 0 eng
010 $a 2006034306
020 $a9781584777588 (cloth : alk. paper)
020 $a1584777583 (cloth : alk. paper)
040 $aDLC$cDLC$dDLC
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050 00 $aKF4891$b.J66 2007
082 00 $a342.73/072$222
100 1 $aJones, Samuel.
245 12 $aA treatise on the right of suffrage :$bwith an appendix /$cSamuel Jones.
260 $aClark, NJ :$bLawbook Exchange,$c2007.
300 $a274 p. ;$c23 cm.
500 $aOriginally published: Boston : Otis, Broaders and company, 1842.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references.
505 0 $aOf the necessity and objects of civil government -- Of liberty, natural, political, civil and personal -- Of the source of power in the governments of the United States : of the people, what should be the idea of them : of citizenship -- Of the value of the American institutions of government and of the duty of preserving them : of the sources of danger to these institutions : how they may be perpetuated -- Of the natural equality of mankind --A historical review of the right of suffrage, according to the Constitution of the United States and of several states -- Of the duty of a nation to preserve and protect itself : and of the general relative rights and duties existing between a nation and its members -- Of the proper intellectual and moral qualifications for the right of suffrage : that a safe principle for the public ought to be established : that the burthen of proof is on the applicant -- That the right of suffrage ought to be regulated with a paramount regard to the public good -- Some general remarks and a division of the subject -- Of personal rights -- Of rights and interest in property -- Of a right in land, or the ownership of real estate -- Of the domicil, and of residence, as qualifications for the right of suffrage -- Of education as a qualification for the right of suffrage -- Of some other conditions, relations and interests, which may be supposed to have an influence on the right of suffrage -- Of aliens or foreigners -- Of persons belonging to the army and navy of the United States -- Of the admission of the clergy to the right of suffrage -- Of the duties required by the nation or government, of individuals, which may be supposed to entitle them to the right of suffrage -- Of crimes and demerits which ought to exclude a person from the right of suffrage -- Of the foundation of the right to vote, and of the qualifications of voters in municipal affairs -- Practical regulations for determining the qualifications of voters : and for their admission to vote at elections -- Of the apportionment of senators and representatives -- A synopsis of the leading principles regulating the right of suffrage : and of the conclusions and rules resulting from them, as established in this treatise.
650 0 $aSuffrage$zUnited States.
856 41 $3Table of contents only$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip072/2006034306.html