6 sentences with 'congressmen'
Example sentences and phrases with the word congressmen and other words derived from it.
• « 160 congressmen had voted to dismiss the viceroy, while, also by a majority of votes, it was agreed that the Cabildo should take charge until the appointment of a junta to govern until the deputies of the provinces were assembled. »
• « At the session of Congress on Tuesday, July 9, 1816, there was agreement to deal with the important matter first. One of the secretaries asked the congressmen: "Do you want the Provinces of the Union to be a free and independent nation from the kings of Spain and its metropolis?" »
• « "In compliance with pre-existing pacts, ..." means: The assembled congressmen would respect what was decided mainly in the Federal Pact of 1831 and in the Agreement of San Nicolás de los Arroyos in 1852. »
• « With tens of thousands of new voters, the old system of congressmen forming caucuses to determine who would stand for election no longer worked. The new voters had regional interests and voted accordingly. »
• « Southern congressmen rejected the amendment as an attempt to gradually abolish slavery - not just in Missouri, but throughout the Union - by violating the property rights of slaveholders and their freedom to take their property wherever they wished. »