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, Volumen2Packer, Barrett, and Parke, 1837 |
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... relations to the General Government are such as to render it certain that great exertions will be always made to obtain the election of a particular President . Such has been the case , and it will be so again ; it is a fact written in ...
... relations to the General Government are such as to render it certain that great exertions will be always made to obtain the election of a particular President . Such has been the case , and it will be so again ; it is a fact written in ...
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... relation to it . On one part alone did he differ from the gentleman . The gentleman from Allegheny wished to make the State elections and the Presidential elections still further apart , in order that there might be an opportunity ...
... relation to it . On one part alone did he differ from the gentleman . The gentleman from Allegheny wished to make the State elections and the Presidential elections still further apart , in order that there might be an opportunity ...
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... relation to elections of President and Vice President was omtited . Mr. PURVIANCE so modified his amendment . Mr. Read asked for a division of the question . Mr. DARLINGTON regretted that the amendment proposed a day so late in the ...
... relation to elections of President and Vice President was omtited . Mr. PURVIANCE so modified his amendment . Mr. Read asked for a division of the question . Mr. DARLINGTON regretted that the amendment proposed a day so late in the ...
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... relation to the State Government , farther than their own votes go . Now , whether this influence did exist , or did not , he would leave to other gentlemen to determine by the arguments which had already been adduced , but what had ...
... relation to the State Government , farther than their own votes go . Now , whether this influence did exist , or did not , he would leave to other gentlemen to determine by the arguments which had already been adduced , but what had ...
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... relation to the electors for President would be useless , as the Constitution of the United States devolves the right of prescribing the manner in which the electors shall be appointed on the Legislature of the State , and authorizes ...
... relation to the electors for President would be useless , as the Constitution of the United States devolves the right of prescribing the manner in which the electors shall be appointed on the Legislature of the State , and authorizes ...
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Página 249 - The returns of every election for Governor shall be sealed up, and transmitted to the...
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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...
Página 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...
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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...
Página 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.