The legislative power is vested in a Senate and House of Representatives. Michigan Reports: Cases Decided in the Supreme Court of Michigan - Page 700by Michigan. Supreme Court, Randolph Manning, George C. Gibbs, Thomas McIntyre Cooley, Elijah W. Meddaugh, William Jennison, Herschel Bouton Lazell, Hovey K. Clarke, Hoyt Post, Henry Allen Chaney, William Dudley Fuller, John Adams Brooks, Marquis B. Eaton, James M. Reasoner, Richard W. Cooper - 1906Full view - About this book
| Elijah Parish - Geography - 1810 - 410 pages
...colleges constitute the university of Maryland. The methodists have a college at Abington. Government — The legislative power is vested in a senate and house of representatives. The senate are chosen tor five years, by electors chosen by the people. The house of representatives... | |
| Noah Webster - Geography - 1813 - 226 pages
...children in the state have aecess to a sehool. Of the Constitution. By the constitution of Massachusctts, the legislative power is vested in a senate and house of representatives, denominated the General Court, whose annual session is held at Boston, on the lust Wednesday in May.... | |
| David Bailie Warden - Indians of North America - 1819 - 658 pages
...repugnant to the spirit of the constitution, were to remain in force, till altered by the legislature. The legislative power is vested in a senate and house of representatives, forming together the general assembly. The voters consist of every white male of twenty-one years,... | |
| John Talbot - Canada - 1820 - 476 pages
...repugnant to the spirit of the constitution, were to remain in force, till altered by the legislature. The legislative power is vested in a senate and house of representatives, forming together the general assembly. The voters consist of everv white inale of twenty-one years,... | |
| Sidney Edwards Morse - Atlases - 1822 - 706 pages
...Besides these, there are Methodists, Episcopalians, Scotch Presbyterians, Moravians, &c. Government.] The legislative power is vested in a senate and house of representatives. The number of senators cannot be less than one fourth, nor greater than one third of the number of... | |
| Sidney Edwards Morse - Atlases - 1822 - 706 pages
...There were besides many Methodists and Friends, and some Lutherans and Roman Catholics. Government.] The legislative power is vested in a senate and house of representatives. The senate consists of 24 members, who are chosen for four years ; one fourth being chosen, yearly.... | |
| Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1823 - 848 pages
...imputation of drunkenness. Horse races, hunting, dancing, and ball-playing, are favourite amusements. The legislative power is vested in a senate and house of representatives. The senate consists of 43 members elected for four years, and renewed by halves. The representatives,... | |
| Henry Charles Carey, J. Lea - America - 1823 - 532 pages
...the following December. It distributes the powers of government into three distinct departments:—I. The legislative power is vested in a senate and house of representatives, each having a negative upon the other, and both styled the legislature of Maine. The senate is elected... | |
| John Melish - North America - 1826 - 532 pages
...formed a government on the same model as the other states, being legislative, executive, and judiciary. The legislative power is vested in a senate and house of representatives ; the members of both branches being elected every two years. The number of representatives is fixed... | |
| Conrad Malte-Brun - Atlases - 1826 - 654 pages
...people, especially those of German and Swedish origin, are not so well educated as the New Englanders. The legislative power is vested in a Senate and House of Representatives, elected by the whole male population of BOOK full age. The population of Pennsylvania in 1820 was ^^xx.... | |
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