JB/037/059/001

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Supreme Constitutive
Election
2 Secresy

(2.)

2 Secresy of Suffrage

1 When suffrage is as secret, no man who wishes to give a vote,
and is not by want of time or length of distance, debarred from giving
it, is debarred from giving it by fear of loss of money or friends, of money
or friends debarred from giving it, & giving it in favour of the person
whom he prefers, by fear of loss of money or friends.

No man is made to suffer, or is exposed to suffer, loss of money
or friends, on account of the vote he has given, or any vote he has
forborne to give.

In so far as the course taken by men's suffrages is known,
some men are by fear of loss of money or friends, debarred from giving
any votes at all; some men who would otherwise have given their
votes in favor of a certain person, are by fear of loss of money or friends
debarred from th giving their votes in favor of that same person;
some men who would otherwise have given their votes in favor
of a certain person & thereby against another person his rival,
are by fear of loss of money or friends not only debarred from
giving their votes in favor of the person they approve, but compelled
to gives their votes in favor of a rival of his, whom they disapprove.

A man who being a candidate for a situation, for the
filling of which, suffrages are given as above, declines using his
endeavours to cause them to be delivered in the secret mode,
proves thereby that the following wishes, one or more of them,
to have place in his breast: 1 to see men who have each of them
a right to vote, debarred in indefinite numbers from the exercise of
that right; 2 to see men who if free, would have voted for a rival of
his, debarred from doing so; 3 to see men who if free would have voted
for a rival of his whom they approved, debarred from doing so, but by fear as above

compelled to vote in favor
of himself, in whatsoever degree
he may have been the
object of their disapprobation.

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Date_1	1821-05-02	Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	037	Main Headings	constitutional code
Folio number	059	Info in main headings field	first lines
Image	001	Titles
Category	copy/fair copy sheet	Number of Pages	1
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Penner	richard doane	Watermarks
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Corrections	richard doane	Paper Produced in Year
Notes public		ID Number	11274
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