Proceedings and Debates of the Convention of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania: To Propose Amendments to the Constitution, Commenced ... at Harrisburg, on the Second Day of May, 1837, Svazek 2Packer, Barrett, and Parke, 1837 |
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Strana 9
... never so large a number of votes polled in November as in October . Not feeling so much immcdiate interest in the Presidential as in the State election , the voters could not be induced to turn out . Now , he wished to fix upon such a ...
... never so large a number of votes polled in November as in October . Not feeling so much immcdiate interest in the Presidential as in the State election , the voters could not be induced to turn out . Now , he wished to fix upon such a ...
Strana 11
... never seen or felt it . posed influence had been used by the opposition as an argument , and perhaps not without effect , against the party who sustained the administration . No one knows better than the gentleman from the city , the ...
... never seen or felt it . posed influence had been used by the opposition as an argument , and perhaps not without effect , against the party who sustained the administration . No one knows better than the gentleman from the city , the ...
Strana 18
... never felt a very great interest in the question before the committee until to - day ; and if the question were now a new one , that we were going to fix a day for the elections in future , he should hardly have reflected on it for a ...
... never felt a very great interest in the question before the committee until to - day ; and if the question were now a new one , that we were going to fix a day for the elections in future , he should hardly have reflected on it for a ...
Strana 20
... never mind the Legislature , the President is the main object , and the State elections will be entirely lost sight of . Suppose you had a particular day for the election of members of the Legislature — which , however , he did not mean ...
... never mind the Legislature , the President is the main object , and the State elections will be entirely lost sight of . Suppose you had a particular day for the election of members of the Legislature — which , however , he did not mean ...
Strana 28
... never told you to change that day , and therefore , we put our veto on the amendments ” . He concluded with stating that , therefore , on reform principles , he would not record his vote in favor of this change . Mr. DUNLOP said the ...
... never told you to change that day , and therefore , we put our veto on the amendments ” . He concluded with stating that , therefore , on reform principles , he would not record his vote in favor of this change . Mr. DUNLOP said the ...
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Strana 249 - The returns of every election for Governor shall be sealed up, and transmitted to the...
Strana 232 - No Senator or Representative shall, during the time for which he shall have been elected, be appointed to any civil office of profit under this state, which shall have been created, or the emoluments of which shall have been increased during such term, except such offices as may be filled by elections by the people.
Strana 164 - Each House may determine the rules of its proceedings, punish its members for disorderly behavior, and with the concurrence of two-thirds, expel a member, but not a second time for the same cause ; and shall have all other powers necessary for a branch of the legislature of a free and independent State.
Strana 188 - If any bill shall not be returned by the Governor within ten days (Sundays excepted) after it shall have been presented to him, the same shall be a law...
Strana 445 - Whenever the office of governor shall become vacant by death, resignation, removal from office or otherwise, the president of the senate shall exercise the office of governor until another governor shall be duly qualified...
Strana 269 - No member of Congress, or person holding any office under the United States or this State, shall exercise the office of Governor or Lieutenant Governor.
Strana 164 - Each house shall keep a journal of its proceedings, and publish them weekly, except such parts as may require secrecy: And the yeas and nays of the members, on any question, shall, at the desire of any two of them, be entered oti the journals.
Strana 176 - Every bill which shall have passed both houses shall be presented to the Governor; if he approve he shall sign it, but if he shall not approve he shall return it with his objections to the house in which it shall have originated, which house shall enter the objections at large upon their journal, and proceed to reconsider it.
Strana 341 - No person shall be appointed to any office within any county, who shall not have been a citizen and inhabitant therein, one year next before his appointment...
Strana 162 - ... unless he shall have been absent on the public business of the United States or of this State, and shall have paid a State or county tax.