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, Volume 9Packer, Barrett, and Parke, 1838 - Constitutional conventions |
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... majority of each house shall constitute a quorum to do business ; but a smaller number may adjourn from day to day , and may be authorized by law to compel the attendance of absent members , in such manner , and under such penalties as ...
... majority of each house shall constitute a quorum to do business ; but a smaller number may adjourn from day to day , and may be authorized by law to compel the attendance of absent members , in such manner , and under such penalties as ...
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... majority of this convention to vote against postponing this section . Mr. EARLE thought it a matter of not much importance where we to adopt this amendment , and amendments of a similar nature , as he presum- ed the committee for the ...
... majority of this convention to vote against postponing this section . Mr. EARLE thought it a matter of not much importance where we to adopt this amendment , and amendments of a similar nature , as he presum- ed the committee for the ...
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... majority of the con- vention were anxious that it should be reached ; and he could not see on what the gentleman from Philadelphia county , founded his doubts . He believed that we would be enabled to get through with all the other arti ...
... majority of the con- vention were anxious that it should be reached ; and he could not see on what the gentleman from Philadelphia county , founded his doubts . He believed that we would be enabled to get through with all the other arti ...
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... majority , it would not receive their approbation . No amendments of doubtful propriety would be acceptable to the people . There could be no objection to the amendment which he now proposed . It requires a notice to be given of every ...
... majority , it would not receive their approbation . No amendments of doubtful propriety would be acceptable to the people . There could be no objection to the amendment which he now proposed . It requires a notice to be given of every ...
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... majority of the voters present , at the opening of the election ; at which time and place , the amendments hereafter enumera- ted , shall be submitted all together for confirmation or rejection . The tickets shall be written or printed ...
... majority of the voters present , at the opening of the election ; at which time and place , the amendments hereafter enumera- ted , shall be submitted all together for confirmation or rejection . The tickets shall be written or printed ...
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Page 381 - And Shem and Japheth took a garment, and laid it upon both their shoulders, and went backward, and covered the nakedness of their father; and their faces were backward, and they saw not their father's nakedness.
Page 381 - And ye shall circumcise the flesh of your foreskin, and it shall be a token of the covenant betwixt me and you.
Page 43 - Any amendment or amendments to this constitution may be proposed in the senate and assembly ; and if the same shall be agreed to by a majority of the members elected to each of the two houses, such proposed amendment or amendments shall be entered on their journals with the yeas...
Page 382 - And then shall he depart from thee, both he and his children with him, and shall return unto his own family, and unto the possession of his fathers shall he return. 42. For they are my servants, which I brought forth out of the land of Egypt : they shall not be sold as bondmen.
Page 381 - And if thy brother be waxen poor, and fallen in decay with thee ; then thou shalt relieve him : yea, though he be a stranger, or a sojourner; that he may live with thee. Take thou no usury of him, or increase : but fear thy God ; that thy brother may live with thee. Thou shalt not give him thy money upon usury, nor lend him thy victuals for increase...
Page 334 - What a stupendous, what an incomprehensible machine is man! who can endure toil, famine, stripes, imprisonment, and death itself, in vindication of his own liberty, and, the next moment be deaf to all those motives whose power supported him through his trial, and inflict on his fellow men a bondage, one hour of which is fraught with more misery, than ages of that which he rose in rebellion to oppose.
Page 129 - ... there is no foundation in nature or in natural law, why a set of words upon parchment should convey the dominion of land...
Page 4 - 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 causa, and shall have all other powers necessary for a branch of the Legislature of a free State.
Page 224 - The returns of every election for Governor shall be sealed up, and transmitted to the seat of government...
Page 332 - I never mean, unless some particular circumstances should compel me to it, to possess another slave by purchase, it being among my first wishes to see some plan adopted by which slavery, in this country, may be abolished by law.