 | 1804 - 372 páginas
...of Representatives. IV. The Senators shall be chosen by districts, to be formed by the Legislature, each district containing such a number of taxable...inhabitants, as shall be entitled to elect not more than three Senators. When a district shall be composed of two or more counties, they shall be adjoining,... | |
 | James Wilson - 1804 - 514 páginas
...formed by the legislature. In forming those districts, the legislature are empowered to include in them such a number of taxable inhabitants as shall be entitled to elect four senators. ' An enlarged and judicious exercise of this power will have a strong tendency to increase... | |
 | David Bailie Warden - 1819 - 658 páginas
...inhabitants be 40,000, after which they may be increased to forty. The senators are chosen by districts, each containing such a number of taxable inhabitants as shall be entitled to elect not more than three members. The number of senators can never be less than one-third, nor more than one half of the... | |
 | Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania. Constitutional Convention - 1825 - 400 páginas
...shall be chosen in districts to be formed by the legislature, containing each, as nearly as may be, such a number of taxable inhabitants as shall be entitled to elect one senator, but where that cannot be done, then such number of adjoining counties shall be formed... | |
 | 1828 - 494 páginas
...formed hy the legislature; each district containing such a numher of taxahle inhahitants as shall he entitled to elect not more than four senators. When a district shall he composed of two or more counties, they shall he adjoining. Neither the city of Philadelphia, nor... | |
 | Joel Barlow Sutherland - 1830 - 404 páginas
...Representatives. SECT. Vir, The Senators shall be chosen in districts, to be formed by the legislature, each district containing such a number of taxable...Neither the city of Philadelphia, nor any county shall bo divided, in forming a district. SECT. VIII. No person shall he a Senator, \vho shall not have attained... | |
 | William Darby, Theodore Dwight - 1833 - 676 páginas
...of this state. The senators shall be chosen in diets, to bo formed by the legislature ; each dist. containing such a number of taxable inhabitants as shall be entitled to elect not more than 4 senators. When a dist. is composed of 2 or moro cos., they shall be adjoining. Neither the city of... | |
 | Tennessee. Constitutional Convention - 1834 - 430 páginas
...the number of qualified electors as may be, each of which districts shall be entitled to one Senator. When a district shall be composed of two or more counties, they shall be adjoining, and no coun'y shall be divided in forming a district: provided, that the whole number of Senators shall... | |
 | Israel Daniel Rupp - 1837 - 398 páginas
...States or of this state. The senators shall be chosen in in districts, to be formed by the legislature ; each district containing such a number of taxable...elect not more than four senators. When a district is composed of two or more counties, they shall be adjoining. Neither the city of Philadelphia, nor... | |
 | Pennsylvania. Constitutional Convention - 1838 - 1012 páginas
...follows, viz : SBCT. 7. The Senators shall be chosen in districts to be formed by the legislature, each district containing such a number of taxable...inhabitants as shall be entitled to elect not more than two Senators, unless 8 single city or county shall at any time be entitled to more than two Senators;... | |
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Representative districts may be altered from time to time as public convenience may require. When a Representative district shall be composed of two or more counties, they shall be contiguous, and the districts as compact as may be. 
