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A favourable answer was received from Her Majesty, but the scheme to make the legislative council elective was never carried into effect, in consequence of the opposition which it encountered in that body. There is no doubt that the popularity of Wilmot seriously declined after he entered the government.
After his death, in 1621, the same powers were vested in William Bradford as governor and Isaac Allerton as assistant. In 1624 the number of assistants was increased to five and in 1633 to seven, and the governor was given a double voice. The elective and legislative powers were vested in a primary assembly of all the freemen, called the "General Court," held at short intervals.
Grant that he desires the elective franchise, will he not attain it sooner by saving the already advanced steps toward it than by running backward over them? Concede that the new government of Louisiana is only to what it should be as the egg is to the fowl, we shall sooner have the fowl by hatching the egg than by smashing it.
SECOND SESSION. To regulate the elective franchise in the District of Columbia; vetoed; passed, January 8, 1867, over veto. To admit the State of Colorado into the Union; vetoed January 18, 1867. For the admission of the State of Nebraska into the Union; vetoed; passed, February 9, 1867, over veto.
They were also familiar with the representative system; and accordingly they introduced it into the new communities, the little forted villages serving as natural units of representation. They were already thoroughly democratic, in instinct and principle, and as a matter of course they made the offices elective, and gave full play to the majority.
If you answer No, they naturally reply, Then let them elect their judges. Jefferson was the first to suggest an elective judiciary, basing his opinion on a misconception of the usage in Connecticut.
"You will now hear what we call in the profession 'balderdash." "Notaries are therefore compelled to follow the course of political events, which are now intimately connected with private interests. "Monsieur le comte by his name, his talents, and his fortune is called upon to sit some day in the elective Chamber.
"It is truer to say that in it both Dessalines and later Christophe were actuated by a clear insight into the social history and peculiarities of their people. There was nothing in the constitution which did not have its companion in Africa, where the organization of society was despotic, with elective hereditary chiefs, royal families, polygamic marriages, councils, and regencies."
There was an open rebellion in 1837, which spread into Upper Canada. He was obliged, however, to suppress a mob of the conservatives, or "loyalists" , who were hostile to the extension of a general amnesty to former rebels. In 1856 the Upper House was made elective. In 1857 Ottawa was made the seat of government. In 1867 the Dominion of Canada was constituted.
I trust that the great and intelligent body of people who have obtained the elective franchise will see that seats in the House of Commons ought not to be given, like rooms in an almshouse, to urgency of solicitation; and that a man who surrenders his vote to caresses and supplications forgets his duty as much as if he sold it for a bank-note.
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