The Conspiracy to Defeat the Liberation of Gov, Dorr
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Excerpt from The Conspiracy to Defeat the Liberation of Gov, Dorr: Or the Hunkers and Algerines Identified, and Their Policy Unveiled; To Which Is Added, a Report of the Case Ex Parte Dorr In the fifteenth year of the reign of Charles the Second, King of England, that Monarch of his royal "will and pleasure, especial grace, certain knowledge, and mere motion," as is stated therein, granted a Charter to Benedict Arnold and others, declaring them "from time to time, and forever hereafter, a body corporate and politic, in fact and name, by the name of The Governor and Company of the English Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, in New England, in America; and that, by the same name, they and their successors shall and may have perpetual succession," &c. When the Constitution was framed and adopted by the United States in 1788, North Carolina and Rhode Island excepted, the State of Rhode Island had not changed its form of government, unless some change in the name may be considered as abolishing the form. The Constitution of the United States went into operation in 1789. Rhode Island, taking no part in framing or ratifying it, was treated as a foreign State, and duties were laid upon her manufactures when imported into the States of the Union. On the 29th of May, 1790, a Convention of the State, assembled at Newport, ratified the Constitution of the United States; having drawn up and prefixed to their act of ratification, eighteen specifications of principles, or explanations, which they declared to be consistent with the Constitution, and having also annexed twenty-one articles which they proposed and recommended as amendments thereto. In the third specification of principles, declared thus to be rights, embodied in the Constitution, the Convention assert, "That the powers of government may be re-assumed by the people, whensoever it shall become necessary to their happiness." For more than fifty years, the State of Rhode Island continued without any other form of State Government than such parts of the Charter as were acquiesced in by the people, although several unsuccessful attempts were, at different times, made to form a State Constitution. In the year 1840, the people of Rhode Island were engaged in an exciting discussion upon the propriety of forming for the State, a Constitution based upon the principle of free suffrage. The discussion was maintained with much zeal by the friends and foes of free suffrage, until a convention was called at Providence in November, 1841, which drafted and submitted to the people for their consideration a form of government for the State, called the People´s Constitution. In the latter part of the month of December following, the People´s Constitution was adopted by a large majority of the people of the State, and it is a remarkable fact in the history of this eventful time, that a majority of the freeholders were found to have voted for it, their names having been endorsed upon their ballots. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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