Sentences with phrase «outright abolition»

Yet from its first sittings, voices have called for reform of the Senate and even, on occasion, for its outright abolition.

With outright abolition a virtual constitutional impossibility, Wilson - Raybould must navigate the handcuffs of a recent Supreme Court ruling with the blue - sky Liberal promise of substantive Senate reform.

«The so - called «bedroom tax» should certainly be reviewed, and the evidence I have seen supports radical reform if not outright abolition» said Gareth Epps, [SLF co-chair]

Christians reasoned their way from believing in divine righteousness to seeing the immorality of human bondage to advocating total, outright abolition.

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In congressional debates in 1790 about the possible abolition of slavery, Georgia representative James Jackson attacked the abolitionist Quakers as «outright lunatics» [p. 97] and went on to say, «If it were a crime, as some assert but which I deny, the British nation is answerable for it, and not the present inhabitants, who now hold that species of property in question» [p. 98].