 | Oscar Jewell Harvey - Wilkes-Barre (Pa.) - 1909 - 682 pages
...branches of the Government have performed their duty as guardians of the people, or assumed to themselves other or greater powers than they are entitled to by the Constitution. For these purposes they shall have power to send for persons, papers and records; they shall have authority... | |
 | Ellis Paxson Oberholtzer - Referendum - 1911 - 558 pages
...government have performed their duty as guardians of the people, or assumed to themselves or exercised other or greater powers than they are entitled to by the Constitution ".48 They were to examine into the collection and expenditure accounts of the government, to call for... | |
 | Frederick Albert Cleveland - Democracy - 1913 - 526 pages
...greater powers than they were entitled to, by the constitution. They are also to inquire whether the taxes have been justly laid and collected in all parts...send for persons, papers and records; they shall have authority to pass public censures, to order impeachments, and to recommend to the legislature the repealing... | |
 | Frederick Albert Cleveland - Democracy - 1913 - 532 pages
...guardians of the people; or assumed to themselves, or exercised other or greater powers than they were entitled to, by the constitution. They are also to inquire whether the taxes have been justly laid and collected in all parts of this commonwealth ; in what manner the public... | |
 | William Bennett Munro - Constitutional history - 1914 - 220 pages
...government had performed their duty as guardians of the people, or assumed to themselves, or exercised, other or greater powers than they are entitled to by the constitution." In the execution of this trust, the council were necessarily led to a comparison of both the legislative... | |
 | Pennsylvania. General Assembly. Legislative Reference Bureau - Constitutions - 1916 - 312 pages
...exercised other or greater powers than they are intitled to by the constitution: They are also to enquire whether the public taxes have been justly laid and collected in all parts of this com monwealth, in what manner the public monies have been disposed of, and whether the laws have been... | |
 | Walter Fairleigh Dodd - State governments - 1928 - 774 pages
...government have performed their duties as guardians of the people, or assumed to themselves, or exercised other or greater powers than they are entitled to by the constitution." The Pennsylvania council of censors had a short and inglorious career and was abolished in 1790. The... | |
 | Rodney Loomer Mott - Local government - 1925 - 420 pages
...government had performed their duty as guardians of the people, or assumed to themselves, or exercised, other or greater powers than they are entitled to by the constitution." In the execution of this trust the council were necessarily led to a comparison of both the legislative... | |
 | Brookings Institution. Institute for Government Research - United States - 1927 - 236 pages
...composed of members of the general assembly to assist the governor and to determine, among other things, " in what manner the public moneys have been disposed...of, and whether the laws have been duly executed." The Constitution of New Hampshire of 1781 : Poore, II, 1290: provided for an auditing committee consisting... | |
 | Darrell Hevenor Smith - Administrative agencies - 1927 - 236 pages
...composed of members of the general assembly to assist the governor and to determine, among other things, " in what manner the public moneys have been disposed...of, and whether the laws have been duly executed." The Constitution of New Hampshire of 1781 : Poore, II, 129o : provided for an auditing committee consisting... | |
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... inquire whether the constitution has been preserved inviolate in every part during the last septenary, (including the year of their service,) and whether the legislative and executive branches of government have performed their duty as guardians of... 
