Monday, September 28, 2009

The late Constitutional Convention of Illinois . . .

. . . has so opportioned [sic] that State that if the Constitution be adopted, counties containing one-third the population of the state will elect a majority of the Legislature. This nice arrangement is for the benefit of the Egyptian Democracy.

– Published in The Davenport Daily Gazette, Davenport, Iowa, Thursday Morning, April 17, 1862, p. 2

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