 The true reason of requiring any qualification, with regard to property, in voters, is to exclude such persons as are in so mean a situation that they are esteemed to have no will of their own. If these persons had votes, they would be tempted to dispose...  Commentaries on the Laws of England - Sivu 171tekijä(t) William Blackstone - 1771Koko teos - Tietoja tästä kirjasta
 | Albert Taylor Bledsoe, Sophia M'Ilvaine Bledsoe Herrick - 1870 - 560 sivua
...are free agents 'in a political view? by quoting these words from Blackstone : ' The true reason of requiring any qualification, with regard to property in voters, is to exclude such persons as are in so mean a situation, that they are nuppoKed to have no trill of their own.'... | |
 | Elisha Mulford - 1870 - 448 sivua
...Blackstone, in a passage of great breadth 'and significance, concedes this. He says, " The true reason of requiring any qualification, with regard to property in voters, is to exclude such persons as are in so mean a situation, that they are esteemed to have no will of their own. If... | |
 | William Blackstone, George Sharswood - 1875 - 860 sivua
...attorney -general. — CHBISTIAH. 1. AJ to the qualifications of the electors. The true reasc n of requiring any qualification, with regard to property, in voters, is to exclude such persons as are in so mean a situation that they are esteemed to have no will of their own. If... | |
 | Joseph Doutre - 1880 - 426 sivua
...qualification for those elected to office. Blackstone says (vol 1, p. 171. Com.): The true reason of requiring any qualification with regard to property in voters, is to exclude such persons as are in so mean a situation that they are esteemed to have no will of their own. If... | |
 | Charles John Smith - 1890 - 802 sivua
...only of fitness but of privilege, and denotes the condition to claim with success. "The true reason of requiring any qualification with regard to property in voters is to exclude such persons as are in so mean a situation that they are esteemed to have no will of their own." —... | |
 | James Albert Woodburn - 1911 - 332 sivua
...qualifications must themselves rest upon Suffrage. •._., this. Blackstone says : " The true reason of requiring any qualification, with regard to property in voters, is to exclude such persons as are in so mean a situation that they are esteemed to have no will of their own. If... | |
 | James Albert Woodburn - 1906 - 352 sivua
...propManhood ertv qualifications must themselves rest upon this. Blackstone says : ' ' The true reason of requiring any qualification, with regard to property in voters, is to exclude such persons as are in so mean a situation that they are esteemed to have no will of their own. If... | |
 | 1807 - 324 sivua
...Thus, when speaking of th«i qualifications of electors, he says, that—" The true reason. < e of requiring any qualification, with regard to property " in voters, is to exclude such persons as p.re in so mean '.' a situation, that they are esteemed to have no will of " their... | |
 | George Mallison - 1920 - 110 sivua
...same stage of progress. Blackstone says: "As to the qualifications of the electors. The true reason of requiring any qualification, with regard to property, in voters, is to exclude such persons as are in so mean a situation that they are esteemed to have no will of their own. If... | |
 | James Albert Woodburn - 1924 - 578 sivua
...property qualifications must themselves rest Suffrage upon this. Blackstone says: "The true reason of requiring any qualification, with regard to property in voters, is to exclude such persons as are in so mean a situation that they are esteemed to have no vnll of their own. If... | |
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