Jersey an equal vote, and she will dismiss her scruples, and concur in the Nat^l system.
It had been much agitated in Cong^s at the time of forming the Confederation, and was then rightly settled by allowing to each sovereign State an equal vote.
Mr. Martin, of Maryland, declared that each state must have an equal vote, or the business of the convention was at an end.
While they yielded this point, they insisted on an equal vote in the senate.
It was admitted by both of the gentlemen from New Jersey,[58] that it would not be just to allow Virginia, which was sixteen times as large as Delaware, an equal vote only.
Let them have an equal vote, and a more objectionable minority than ever might give law to the whole.
Resolved, That, in the second branch of the legislature of the United States, each State shall have an equal vote.
When the civil war commenced, she refused to draw her salary from a treasury already overtaxed, resigned her clerkship and devoted herself to the assistance of suffering soldiers.
Her chosen labors were on the battle-field from the beginning, until the wounded and dead were attended to.
If an equal vote be refused, the smaller states will become vassals to the larger; and all experience has shown that the vassals and subjects of free states are the most enslaved.
He was of opinion, the smaller colonies would lose their rights, if they were not in some instances allowed an equal vote; and, therefore, that a discrimination should take place among the questions which would come before Congress.
Let the smaller Colonies give equal money and men, and then have an equal vote.
The small States insisted strenuously on retaining an equal vote in the Legislature, but at length consented to a proportional representation in the House on condition that they should have an equal vote in the Senate.
This has been regarded by some as a fortunate circumstance, as the votes of these two small States would probably have given an equal vote to the States in both Houses, if not have defeated the plan of national government.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "equal vote" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
