Debates of the Convention to Amend the Constitution of Pennsylvania: Convened at Harrisburg, November 12, 1872; Adjourned, November 27, to Meet at Philadelphia, January 7, 1873 ...B. Singerly, state printer, 1873 |
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... Senate and you make your apportionment there upon the basis of population . We have passed a section which authorizes the Leg- islature to apportion the State into sena- torial districts to the number of fifty every ten years . That is ...
... Senate and you make your apportionment there upon the basis of population . We have passed a section which authorizes the Leg- islature to apportion the State into sena- torial districts to the number of fifty every ten years . That is ...
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... Senate of Pennsylvania ; and I confess that I am almost forced to the conclusion that it would be quite as safe to trust the Legislature of the State to make a fair apportionment as it would be a Convention of this kind . This is ...
... Senate of Pennsylvania ; and I confess that I am almost forced to the conclusion that it would be quite as safe to trust the Legislature of the State to make a fair apportionment as it would be a Convention of this kind . This is ...
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... Senators are not chosen by population . They are chosen by committees , two to each State , and even in the House of Representatives there is at least one member to each State , although it is professedly based upon population . The ...
... Senators are not chosen by population . They are chosen by committees , two to each State , and even in the House of Representatives there is at least one member to each State , although it is professedly based upon population . The ...
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... Senate of two Senators . Then , for the apportioning of representa- tives according to population , they took the State of the very smallest population as the ratio , and they provided that every State should have at least one member ...
... Senate of two Senators . Then , for the apportioning of representa- tives according to population , they took the State of the very smallest population as the ratio , and they provided that every State should have at least one member ...
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... Senate , to make it one hun- dred and fifty by using the largest frac- tions either way to effect that purpose ; otherwise as under the Illinois plan , you have a divisor and a quotient as a basis and have to use fractions in order to ...
... Senate , to make it one hun- dred and fifty by using the largest frac- tions either way to effect that purpose ; otherwise as under the Illinois plan , you have a divisor and a quotient as a basis and have to use fractions in order to ...
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ABSENT.-Messrs Achenbach Addicks adjourn adopted Ainey Allegheny Alricks amendment Andrew apportionment Armstrong Baer Bailey Bannan Bardsley Bartholomew Beebe Biddle Bigler Black Boyd Brodhead Broomall BUCKALEW Bullitt Cassidy Chair CLERK Committee on Revision Commonwealth Constitution Convention Corson court Cronmiller Curtin Cuyler Dallas DARLINGTON David N delegate districts division elected Funck gentleman gerrymandering go into committee Hanna HARRY WHITE Hazzard Hemphill Henry W Heverin House hundred Hunsicker J. N. PURVIANCE John N John Price judges KAINE Lamberton legislation Legislature Lilly Littleton Luzerne county M'Camant M'Clean M'Culloch M'Michael M'Murray MacConnell MACVEAGH Mann Mantor ment Messrs mittee motion was agreed move Newlin Palmer Patterson Philadelphia population PRESIDENT proposed proposition Pughe Purman question ratio Reed representation representative Revision and Adjustment Runk second reading second the call Smith strike Struthers third reading tion Turrell vention vote Wetherill whole Woodward words yeas and nays