Jean-Pierre Raffarin Quotes
I think that the proposed constitution is one of the European legal documents with the strongest social dimension I have seen since I began following European issues.
Raffarin, Jean-Pierre. Interview. Euronews, 16 Feb. 2005.
In that year Rhode Island was the only state left where only property owners (less than half the adult males) could vote and the state legislature had not been reapportioned since the original charter in 1663. The People’s Constitution was duly ratified in December 1841. The incumbents wrote a Constitution of their own and submitted it to the voters in March of 1842. It was rejected. Dorr and his followers put up a slate of candidates and were elected, Dorr as Governor. The incumbents refused to recognize the officials elected under such a “radical” system and tried to have Dorr arrested and did arrest many of his followers. Dorr then led a unsuccessful rebellion against the illegal government. Nonetheless Dorr was sentenced to life imprisonment. A new charter was submitted to the voters which expanded the voting franchise somewhat. In 1845 Governor Charles Jackson was elected having pledged to pardon Dorr, which he did immediately.
Despite Ziglar’s and other officials pointing out the illegality, illegal sweeps and arrests were made without warrants or constitutional requirements.
Hamilton acknowledged that the major public objection to the new U. S. Constitution was its lack of a Bill of Rights, which Hamilton argued was unnecessary.
Jean-Pierre Raffarin is a French politician who served as Prime Minister of France from 6 May 2002 to 31 May 2005.
