The American Citizen in Pennsylvania: The Government of the State and of the Nation |
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... taken three years to find the boundary between Delaware and Maryland , Lord Baltimore and the Penns secured the services of Charles Mason and Jeremiah Dixon , distinguished English surveyors , and in 1763 they entered on their task of ...
... taken three years to find the boundary between Delaware and Maryland , Lord Baltimore and the Penns secured the services of Charles Mason and Jeremiah Dixon , distinguished English surveyors , and in 1763 they entered on their task of ...
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... taken from the preface to the " Frame of Gov- ernment " which Penn gave to the colonists in Pennsyl- vania : " Any government is free to the people under it , whatever be the form , where the laws rule , and the people are a party to ...
... taken from the preface to the " Frame of Gov- ernment " which Penn gave to the colonists in Pennsyl- vania : " Any government is free to the people under it , whatever be the form , where the laws rule , and the people are a party to ...
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... taken from him , Governor Fletcher of New York being appointed in his stead . Two years afterward Penn was restored to power , and to allay the discontent of the colonists , various plans of government were tried and re- jected . Penn ...
... taken from him , Governor Fletcher of New York being appointed in his stead . Two years afterward Penn was restored to power , and to allay the discontent of the colonists , various plans of government were tried and re- jected . Penn ...
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... years , and must have resided within the ward for one year next preceding his election . Appeals may be taken from the decision of the alderman's court to the county court of common pleas . The BOROUGHS AND CITIES 61.
... years , and must have resided within the ward for one year next preceding his election . Appeals may be taken from the decision of the alderman's court to the county court of common pleas . The BOROUGHS AND CITIES 61.
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... taken of the morals of the community ? How are the streets of a city cleaned ? What constitutes the city judiciary ? How does the city respond to the need for protection of life and property ? How does the city provide for the needs of ...
... taken of the morals of the community ? How are the streets of a city cleaned ? What constitutes the city judiciary ? How does the city respond to the need for protection of life and property ? How does the city provide for the needs of ...
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Page i - All men have a natural and indefeasible right to worship Almighty God according to the dictates of their own consciences; no man can of right be compelled to attend, erect or support any place of worship, or to maintain any ministry against his consent; no human authority can, in any case whatever, control or interfere with the rights of conscience and no preference shall ever be given by law to any religious establishments or modes of worship.
Page ii - All courts shall be open, and every man for an injury done him in his lands, goods, person, or reputation, shall have remedy by due course of law, and right and justice administered without sale, denial, or delay.
Page xxviii - Municipal and other corporations and individuals invested with the privilege of taking private property for public use shall make just compensation for property taken, injured or destroyed by the construction or enlargement of their works, highways or improvements, which compensation shall be paid or secured before such taking, injury or destruction.
Page xliv - ... from the two highest numbers on the list, the Senate shall choose the Vice President ; a quorum for the purpose shall consist of two thirds of the whole number of senators, and a majority of the whole number shall be necessary to a choice. But no person constitutionally ineligible to the office of President shall be eligible to that of Vice President of the United States.
Page xlii - Done in Convention, by the unanimous consent of the States present, the seventeenth day of September, in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and eighty-seven, and of the Independence of the United States of America the twelfth.
Page 300 - Washington a department of education for the purpose of collecting such statistics and facts as shall show the condition and progress of education in the several States and Territories and of diffusing such information respecting the organization and management of schools and school systems, and methods of teaching, as shall aid the people of the United States in the establishment and maintenance of efficient school systems, and otherwise promote the cause of education throughout the country.
Page xxxi - Any amendment or amendments to this constitution may be proposed in the Senate or House of Representatives ; 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 xxviii - The stock and indebtedness of corporations shall not be increased except in pursuance of general law, nor without the consent of the persons holding the larger amount in value of the stock first obtained at a meeting to be held after sixty days' notice given in pursuance of law.
Page xii - ... in case of disagreement between the two houses with respect to the time of adjournment, he may adjourn them to such time as he shall think proper not beyond the day of the next annual meeting of the general assembly.
Page x - ... and shall not be permitted to withhold his testimony upon the ground that it may criminate himself or subject him to public infamy; but such testimony shall not afterwards be used against him in any judicial proceeding, except for perjury in giving such testimony...