Bulletin, Issues 1-16Wright & Potter Printing Company, 1917 - Constitutional law |
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... necessary for the Con- vention to determine how it will elect its officers , whether by a secret ballot or by an open vote on a roll call . The first method was followed in the Massachusetts Convention of 1853 and is still employed by ...
... necessary for the Con- vention to determine how it will elect its officers , whether by a secret ballot or by an open vote on a roll call . The first method was followed in the Massachusetts Convention of 1853 and is still employed by ...
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... necessary than in a legislature . If there is any assembly in which there should be unlimited debate , it is a constitutional convention . It is dealing with the rules of law which are the canons regulat- ing the action of all the ...
... necessary than in a legislature . If there is any assembly in which there should be unlimited debate , it is a constitutional convention . It is dealing with the rules of law which are the canons regulat- ing the action of all the ...
Page 10
... necessary , fix the method of their appoint- ment , and prescribe their duties . The Act under which the Massachusetts . Convention of 1917 will assemble provides that the delegates shall choose " a President and such other officers and ...
... necessary , fix the method of their appoint- ment , and prescribe their duties . The Act under which the Massachusetts . Convention of 1917 will assemble provides that the delegates shall choose " a President and such other officers and ...
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... necessary it is to subdivide its work among these smaller groups . The Massachusetts Convention of 1917 is smaller by almost a hundred members than the Con- vention of 1853 , but it still has 320 members ; and when this number is ...
... necessary it is to subdivide its work among these smaller groups . The Massachusetts Convention of 1917 is smaller by almost a hundred members than the Con- vention of 1853 , but it still has 320 members ; and when this number is ...
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... necessary to provide some special com- mittees for particular subjects such as Corporations , the Loan of the Credit of the State , etc. The conventions recently held in New York , Ohio and Michigan have followed the principle of ...
... necessary to provide some special com- mittees for particular subjects such as Corporations , the Loan of the Credit of the State , etc. The conventions recently held in New York , Ohio and Michigan have followed the principle of ...
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Page 84 - Representatives, but the people reserve to themselves power to propose laws and amendments to the Constitution and to enact or reject the same at the polls, independent of the legislative assembly...
Page 13 - In order to prevent those who are vested with authority from becoming oppressors, the people have a right, at such periods and in such manner as they shall establish by their frame of government, to cause their public officers to return to private life; and to fill up vacant places by certain and regular elections and appointments.
Page 56 - Petitions and orders for the initiative and for the referendum shall be filed with the secretary of state, and in submitting the same to the people he, and all other officers, shall be guided by the general laws and the act submitting this amendment, until legislation shall be especially provided therefor.
Page 41 - Aid the finance committee of the senate and the ways and means committee of the assembly...
Page 36 - Dollars; and the money arising from the creation of such debts shall be applied to the purpose for which it was obtained, or to repay the debts so contracted, and to no other purpose whatever.