 | James Madison, Henry Dilworth Gilpin - 1840 - 710 pages
...of property which should be required, he should not think of less than one hundred thousand dollars for the President, half of that sum for each of the...members of the National Legislature. He would, however, lea ve the sums blank. His motion was, that the President of the United States, the Judges, and members... | |
 | Daniel Parker - 1848 - 172 pages
...a farther attempt was made to fix it by the Constitution. Mr. Pinckney tnoved that " the President, Judges, and members of the Legislature, should be...swear that they were respectively possessed of a clear and unincumbered estate,'' — different in each case, but left blank for the present; the sums to... | |
 | Richard Hildreth - 1849 - 616 pages
...Were he to fix the quantum, he should not think of less than $100,000 for the President, half as much for each of the judges, and in like proportion for the members of the Legislature." A motion which he made for inserting property qualifications, leaving the sums blank,... | |
 | Henry Flanders - 1855 - 682 pages
...to fix the quantum of property which should he required, he should not think of less than 8100,000 for the President, half of that sum for each of the...proportion for the members of the National Legislature. the richest rogues. We should remember the character which Scripture requires in rulers, that they... | |
 | Jonathan Elliot - 1863 - 680 pages
...of property which should be required, he should not think of less than one hundred thousand dollars for the President, half of that sum for each of the...estate, to the amount of in the case of the President, &c., &c. Mr. RUTLEDGE seconded the motion ; observing, that the committee had reported no qualifications,... | |
 | Jonathan Elliot - 1863 - 676 pages
...of property which should be required, he should not think of less than one hundred thousand dollars for the President, half of that sum for each of the...swear that they were respectively possessed of a clear unincurnbered estate, to the amount of in the case of the President, &c., &c. Mr. RUTLEDGE seconded... | |
 | Patrick Cudmore - 1875 - 278 pages
...be required, he should not think of less than one hundred thousand dollars for the president, half that sum for each of the judges, and in like proportion for the members of the National Legislature."—Madison Papers, 403. The Radicals of Massachusetts and Connecticut have followed faithfully... | |
 | Richard Hildreth - 1877 - 608 pages
...Were he to fix the quantum, he should not think of less than $100,000 for the President, half as much for each of the judges, and in like proportion for the members of the Legislature." A motion which he made for inserting property qualifications, leaving the sums blank,... | |
 | United States. Constitutional Convention - 1893 - 432 pages
...of property which should be required, he should not think of less than one hundred thousand dollars for the President, half of that sum for each of the...estate, to the amount of in the case of the President, <fcc., <fcc. Mr. RUTLEDGE seconded the motion ; observing, that the Committee had reported no qualifications,... | |
 | Erastus Howard Scott - 1893
...of property which should be required, he should not think of less than one hundred thousand dollars for the President, half of that sum for each of the...estate, to the amount of in the case of the President, &c., &c. Mr. ROTLEDGE seconded the motion ; observing, that the Committee had reported no qualifications,... | |
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States and individual states, as well as between one state and another. Were he to fix the quantum of property which should be required, he should not think of less than one hundred thousand dollars for the President, half of that sum for each of the... 
