If you're a member of the Virginia House of Burgesses and you've submitted a proposal for a law that requires colonial inspectors
to place grades
<span> on different qualities of harvested tobacco</span>, then even if it passes the house it won't be effective until the Governor signs it.
Webster supported the new Fugitive Salve Law, hoping that it would calm sectional tensions between North and South.
Voting as a partisan can be an effective way to mobilize your constituents to keep voting for you, as long as you don't engage even more partisan wings of your party.
Unlike moderates or people who compromise, partisans don't have the ability to draw new members into their coalition, unless new people see their way of thinking.
