Sample Sentences forpoll tax (auto-selected)
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The unique 'poll tax' that we must pay was unheard of.† (source)
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Here's the poll tax gone, and more and more states passin' anti-lynchin' bills, and all kinds of equal rights.† (source)
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Yes, and if there was anybody who couldn't afford two dollars to pay his poll tax and came to him and said it straight out, he, Willie Stark, would pay that tax out of money he had got by mortgaging his pappy's farm.† (source)
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Every State in the Union has the power to impose poll taxes.† (source)
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I have paid no poll tax for six years.† (source)
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The right of citizens of the United States to vote in any primary or other election for President or Vice President, for electors for President or Vice President, or for Senator or Representative in Congress, shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or any State by reason of failure to pay poll tax or other tax.† (source)
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I repeat 'all systems'; even the so-called 'unlimited democracies' excluded from franchise not less than one quarter of their populations by age, birth, poll tax, criminal record, or other.† (source)
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I hate poll taxes but emergencies are possible.† (source)
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There may exist certain critical and tempestuous conjunctures of the State, in which a poll tax may become an inestimable resource.† (source)
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The power of internal taxation has raised many fears: double sets of revenue officers, double taxation, and odious, oppressive poll taxes.† (source)
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Poll Taxes Bad, May Be Needed† (source)
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I strongly disapprove of poll taxes.† (source)
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As to poll taxes, I, without scruple, confess my disapprobation of them; and though they have prevailed from an early period in those States [1] which have uniformly been the most tenacious of their rights, I should lament to see them introduced into practice under the national government.† (source)
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