4 sentences with 'redress'
Example sentences and phrases with the word redress and other words derived from it.
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• « Occasionally, a poorer Roman citizen could petition an emperor personally for redress and succeed, as could the occasional provincial to a governor, but the vast majority of the time the poor (citizens and non-citizens alike) were simply at the mercy of the elite landowners. »
• « For several years after the peace of 1783, these indebted citizens had petitioned the state legislature for redress. Many of them were veterans of the Revolutionary War who had returned to their farms and families after the end of the war and now faced the loss of their homes. »
• « "As things now stand," Hammond wrote, "he [Hampton] is a convicted scoundrel who, not having the courage to redress his own wrongs, set thugs to do it for him..... To challenge me [to a duel] would be to throw himself on my mercy because he knows I am not obliged to meet him [for a duel]". »
• « When an individual or a party is wronged in the United States, to whom can he turn for redress? If to public opinion, public opinion constitutes the majority; if to the legislature, it represents the majority, and implicitly obeys their commands; if to the executive, it is appointed by the majority, and remains a passive instrument in their hands; the public troops are constituted by the majority in arms; the jury is the majority vested with the right of hearing judicial cases; and in certain States even the judges are chosen by the majority. However iniquitous or absurd the evil you complain of may be, you must submit to it as best you can. »
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