A treatise on the right of suffrage : with an appendix / Samuel Jones.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Jones, Samuel.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Suffrage--United States.

Suffrage.

Other Title:

Treatise on the Right of Suffrage, with an Appendix

Contents:

Of 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.