Legislative Assemblies: Their Framework, Make-up, Character, Characteristics, Habits, and Manners, Volume 2 |
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... meet for the common good , which agreed on by them , they may present to the Magistrates , who haveing considered , thereof , may manifest their consent or dissent , thereto : And no law , order or sentence shall passe , or be accounted ...
... meet for the common good , which agreed on by them , they may present to the Magistrates , who haveing considered , thereof , may manifest their consent or dissent , thereto : And no law , order or sentence shall passe , or be accounted ...
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... meet the theory that Pennsylvania as a province had any second chamber after the opening of the eighteenth century . Delaware , an adjunct of Pennsylvania , followed her up to the Revolution in having only one legislative chamber . The ...
... meet the theory that Pennsylvania as a province had any second chamber after the opening of the eighteenth century . Delaware , an adjunct of Pennsylvania , followed her up to the Revolution in having only one legislative chamber . The ...
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... meet modern needs is another story . Some day it is going to be recognized that government has come in our time to have two distinct functions -one it has always had , the function of justice ; the other , the new function of business ...
... meet modern needs is another story . Some day it is going to be recognized that government has come in our time to have two distinct functions -one it has always had , the function of justice ; the other , the new function of business ...
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... meet with that glorious independence , which makes the House of Lords the bulwark of the English constitution , and which has sometimes saved the liberties of the people from threatened 1 Gov. Thomas Hutchinson , History of ...
... meet with that glorious independence , which makes the House of Lords the bulwark of the English constitution , and which has sometimes saved the liberties of the people from threatened 1 Gov. Thomas Hutchinson , History of ...
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... meet the main difficulty by giving each stockholder as many votes as he has shares , but this would be out of the question in government , save in the roughest sort of way . CHAPTER V THE QUESTION OF SIZE AMERICAN lawmaking bodies were ...
... meet the main difficulty by giving each stockholder as many votes as he has shares , but this would be out of the question in government , save in the roughest sort of way . CHAPTER V THE QUESTION OF SIZE AMERICAN lawmaking bodies were ...
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Page 593 - In this situation of this Assembly, groping as it were in the dark to find political truth, and scarce able to distinguish it when presented to us, how has it happened, Sir, that we have not hitherto once thought of humbly applying to the Father of lights, to illuminate our understandings...
Page 593 - I have lived, Sir, a long time ; and, the longer I live, the more convincing proofs I see of this truth, that GOD governs in the affairs of men.
Page 476 - ... any false scandalous and malicious writing or writings against the government of the United States...
Page 349 - In order to prevent those who are vested with authority from becoming oppressors, the people have a right, at such periods and in such manner as they shall establish by their frame of government, to cause their public officers to return to private life; and to fill up vacant places by certain and regular elections and appointments.
Page 249 - And whereas the ministers of the Gospel are, by their profession, dedicated to the service of God and the care .of souls, and ought not to be diverted from the great duties of their functions...
Page 109 - That the Legislative and Executive powers of the state should be separate and distinct from the Judiciary; and that the members of the two first may be restrained from oppression, by feeling and participating the burthens of the people, they should, at fixed periods, be reduced to a private station, return into that body from which they were originally taken...
Page 38 - a Second Chamber dissents from the First, it is mischievous; if it agrees, it is superfluous.
Page 82 - The freest government, if it could exist, would not be long acceptable, if the tendency of the laws were to create a rapid accumulation of property in few hands, and to render the great mass of the population dependent and penniless.
Page 76 - Society, must be an Effect of the Protection afforded to it by the joint Strength of the Society, in the Execution of its Laws. Private Property therefore is a Creature of Society, and is subject to the Calls of that Society, whenever its Necessities shall require it, even to its last Farthing...
Page 239 - No person who acknowledges the being of a God, and a future state of rewards and punishments, shall, on account of his religious sentiments, be disqualified to hold any office or place of trust or profit under this Commonwealth.