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" If any State shall exclude any of her adult male citizens from the elective franchise, or abridge that right, she shall forfeit her right to representation in the same proportion. The effect of this provision will be either to compel the States to grant... "
Appletons' Annual Cyclopaedia and Register of Important Events: Embracing ... - Page 193
1869
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The American Annual Cyclopædia and Register of Important Events ...

1867 - 826 pages
...The effect of this provision will be either to compel the States to grant universal suffrage or во to shear them of their power as to keep them forever in a hopeless minority in tho national Government, both legislative and executive. If they do not enfranchise the frcedmen, it...
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The American Annual Cyclopædia and Register of Important Events ..., Volume 6

1868 - 828 pages
...forfeit her right to representation in the same proportion. The effect of this provision wfll be either to compel the States to grant universal suffrage or...enfranchise the freedmen, it would give to the rebel States bnt thirty-seven Representatives. Thus shorn of their power, they would soon become restive. Southern...
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The American Annual Cyclopedia and Register of ..., Volume 6; Volume 1866

1869 - 824 pages
...forfeit her right to representation in the same proportion. The effect of this provision will be either to compel the States to grant universal suffrage or...would not long brook a hopeless minority. True it will take two, three, possibly five years before they conquer their prejudices sufficiently to allow their...
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The Congressional Globe, Volume 45, Part 6; Volume 66

United States. Congress - 1872 - 914 pages
...The effect of this provision will be either to compel the States to grant universal suffrage, orso to shear them of their power as to keep them forever in a hopeless minority in tho national Government both legislative and executive." On the 9th of May Mr. Broomall, pending the...
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The Congressional Globe, Volume 45, Part 6; Volume 66

United States. Congress - 1872 - 912 pages
...compel the States to grant universal suffrage, orso to shear them of their power as to keep them4orover in a hopeless minority in the national Government both legislative and executive." On the 9th of May Mr. Broomall, pending i lu- same debate, said of this section : "Tho second proposition...
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American History Told by Contemporaries..., Volume 4

Albert Bushnell Hart - 1901 - 770 pages
...forfeit her right to representation in the same proportion. The effect of this provision will be either to compel the States to grant universal suffrage or...Southern pride would not long brook a hopeless minority. Tnie it will take two, three, possibly five years before they conquer their prejudices sufficiently...
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American History Told by Contemporaries ..., Volume 4

Albert Bushnell Hart, John Gould Curtis - 1901 - 768 pages
...forfeit her right to representation in the same proportion. The effect of this provision will be either to compel the States to grant universal suffrage or...would not long brook a hopeless minority. True it will take two, three, possibly five years before, they conquer their prejudices sufficiently to allow their...
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United States Reports: Cases Adjudged in the Supreme Court at ..., Volume 400

United States. Supreme Court, John Chandler Bancroft Davis, Henry Putzel, Henry C. Lind, Frank D. Wagner - 1971 - 1052 pages
...forfeit her right to representation in the same proportion. The effect of this provision will be either to compel the States to grant universal suffrage or...national Government, both legislative and executive." Ibid. Stevens recognized that it might take several years for the coercive effect of the Amendment...
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Great Debates in American History: Civil rights, part 1

Marion Mills Miller - 1913 - 498 pages
...second section I consider the most important in the article. The effect of this provision will be either to compel the States to grant universal suffrage or...not long brook a hopeless minority. True, it will take two, three, possibly five years before they conquer their prejudices sufficiently to allow their...
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American History Told by Contemporaries ..., Volume 4

Albert Bushnell Hart, John Gould Curtis - 1901 - 758 pages
...forfeit her right to representation in the same proportion. The effect of this provision will be either to compel the States to grant universal suffrage or...would not long brook a hopeless minority. True it will take two, three, possibly five years before they conquer their prejudices sufficiently to allow their...
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