Official Report of the Debates and Proceedings in the State Convention: Assembled May 4th, 1853, to Revise and Amend the Constitution of the Commonwealth of MassachusettsWhite & Potter, printers, 1853 |
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... legislatures ; but not themselves a legislature . It leaves to them to make and un- make the frame of government ; to establish , de- fine , and reconstruct its great departments , and clothe them with their several powers ; to elect to ...
... legislatures ; but not themselves a legislature . It leaves to them to make and un- make the frame of government ; to establish , de- fine , and reconstruct its great departments , and clothe them with their several powers ; to elect to ...
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... legislature , limiting its interference with the fundamental law of the land . It was a grant of power to the legislature , and not a limitation of power to the people . [ See Hale's Debates , p . 415. ] If the gentleman insists upon ...
... legislature , limiting its interference with the fundamental law of the land . It was a grant of power to the legislature , and not a limitation of power to the people . [ See Hale's Debates , p . 415. ] If the gentleman insists upon ...
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... legislature or of any former legislature ? Not at all ; it is no statute law ! In a legal sense , it is no law . What is it then ? It is precisely the embodiment , by the collected will of the people , of the Ameri- can idea of ...
... legislature or of any former legislature ? Not at all ; it is no statute law ! In a legal sense , it is no law . What is it then ? It is precisely the embodiment , by the collected will of the people , of the Ameri- can idea of ...
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... legislature of 1853 undertook to do that same thing ; but had they any power to do it ? I beg leave to refer to a precedent directly in point , showing that the legislature had no power what- ever to meddle with the Convention Act . Let ...
... legislature of 1853 undertook to do that same thing ; but had they any power to do it ? I beg leave to refer to a precedent directly in point , showing that the legislature had no power what- ever to meddle with the Convention Act . Let ...
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... legislature and the people . But supposing it is put upon the ground of necessity . What constitutes necessity ? Suppose any other necessity had existed which in the minds of a majority of the legislators had rendered a revision of the ...
... legislature and the people . But supposing it is put upon the ground of necessity . What constitutes necessity ? Suppose any other necessity had existed which in the minds of a majority of the legislators had rendered a revision of the ...
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Official Report of the Debates and Proceedings in the State ..., Volumer 1-2 Massachusetts. Constitutional Convention Uten tilgangsbegrensning - 1853 |
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Abington adjourn adopted agree appointed argument ballot believe body BUTLER called Chairman Charlestown Committee Commonwealth Commonwealth of Massachusetts consider Constitution as relates Convention Council court debate Dedham delegates desire districts duties ELECTIONS BY PLURALITY expedient Fall River favor Freetown gentleman from Boston gentleman from Lowell governor hall HALLETT Haverhill hope House of Representatives inhabitants KEYES lature legal voters legislative legislature lieutenant-governor Lowell Institute majority principle majority system matter meet ment mittee Monday MORTON motion Natick North Brookfield number of votes o'clock oath officers opinion pardoning party persons Pittsfield plurality system Plymouth present President proposed proposition question reason referred regard Report representation resolution Resolved rule SCHOULER seems Senate session stitution submitted suppose taken Taunton tion tleman town of Berlin town of Walpole United vacancy vention whole Wilbraham WILSON wish word