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Minority representation in Illinois
December 23, 1869 issue

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The people of the State of Illinois are much interested just now in the discussion of personal, or, as some of them call it, Proportional Representation; and there seems every likelihood that the Constitutional Convention which has just met will take this subject into serious consideration. The U.S. Congress was chosen on the issue of Reconstruction. The questions of Finance and Civil Service Reform were clearly before the country. Everybody knew that they would be the leading ones before the Congress; yet few persons considered this in their voting, because it was properly felt that the work of Reconstruction was not clinched until it had been approved by a popular verdict, and that was the work of the hour.

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VOTING; MINORITIES -- United States; CONGRESSES & conventions; UNITED States. Congress; UNITED States -- History; ILLINOIS; UNITED States
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