The United States of America; a study of the American commonwealth, its natural resources, people, industries, manufactures, commerce, and its work in literature, science, education, and self-government; . JB RELIGIOUS QUALIFICATIONS REMOVED. 489 man who did not exercise that liberty in such way as to becomea Christian or a Protestant, or a beUever in the Trinity, in thedivine inspiration of the Testaments, or in the infallibility of thePope, was punished by not being suffered to vote or hold one of the State Constitutions, again, forbids cruel andunusual punishments, yet it was n
The United States of America; a study of the American commonwealth, its natural resources, people, industries, manufactures, commerce, and its work in literature, science, education, and self-government; . JB RELIGIOUS QUALIFICATIONS REMOVED. 489 man who did not exercise that liberty in such way as to becomea Christian or a Protestant, or a beUever in the Trinity, in thedivine inspiration of the Testaments, or in the infallibility of thePope, was punished by not being suffered to vote or hold one of the State Constitutions, again, forbids cruel andunusual punishments, yet it was not then thought cruel to brandthe forehead, cut off the ears, flog, imprison for debt, or put todeath for any one of nineteen crimes now thought sufficientlypunished by imprisonment for a few years. Nevertheless, the theories of our ancestors were sound, what-ever may be thought of their practice. Their faces were set inthe right direction. They were moving forward, and having de-termined first on just what principles representative governmentought to be established, and having expressed and defined thoseprinciples in their State Constitutions, they went cheerfully onwith the labor of administratio
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