| Jedidiah Morse - Geography - 1814 - 696 pages
...Government. By the constitution of this state, which was formed and ratified at Knoxville, February 6, J796, the legislative authority is vested in a general assembly,...consisting of a senate and house of representatives. The number of representatives is to be fixed once in seven years, by the legislature, according to... | |
| John Lambert - Boston (Mass.) - 1814 - 556 pages
...— Satire upon American Discipline — A Militia Muster. THE legislative authority of South Carolina is vested in a general assembly, consisting of a sena'te and house of representatives. The executive authority is vested in a governor and lieutenantgovernor, who are chosen by the general... | |
| David Bailie Warden - Indians of North America - 1819 - 658 pages
...a constitution formed and ratified by the free inhabitants. Constitution. — The legislative power is vested in a general assembly, consisting of a senate and house of representatives, elected by the freeholders, for the term of two years. Every freeman, twenty-one years of age, who... | |
| David Bailie Warden - Condiciones economicas - 1819 - 596 pages
...convention held at Philadelphia in 1770, * and was amended in the year 1790. The legislative power is vested in a General Assembly, consisting of a Senate and House of Repre* This act, of which the charter of Penn formed the basis, was drawn up by Sir William Junes,... | |
| John Talbot - Canada - 1820 - 476 pages
...order to guard against any encroachments thereon, are excepted out of the general powers of government. The legislative authority is vested in a general assembly,...consisting of a senate and house of representatives, both elected by the people. The number of representatives to be fixed by the general assembly, according... | |
| Daniel Blowe - Canada - 1820 - 788 pages
...government is, like that of the other states, legislative, executive, and judiciary. The legislative power is vested in a general assembly, consisting of a senate and house of representatives. The senators are chosen for four years, and one half vacate their seats every two years. They must... | |
| Frances Wright - Scholars - 1821 - 410 pages
...these different confederated republics differ in little the one from the other. The legislative power is vested in a general assembly, consisting of a senate and house of representatives ;* the executive in a governor, or in a governor with the assistance, or perhaps it were more correct... | |
| Sidney Edwards Morse - Atlases - 1822 - 706 pages
...•state a few settlements of German Lutherans and German Calvimsls. Government.] The legislative power is vested in a general assembly, consisting of a senate and house of commons. The senators are chosen annually, one from each county. The members of the house of commons... | |
| Sidney Edwards Morse - Atlases - 1822 - 706 pages
...Miamiei and Eel river Indians, in Indiana, on branches ef (be Wabash. Government.] The legislative power is vested in a general assembly consisting of a senate and house of representative*. The representatives are chosen for two years and the senators for four years. The... | |
| Jedidiah Morse, Richard Cary Morse - Geography - 1823 - 886 pages
...parts of the state a few settlements of GermanLutherans and German Calvinists. The legislative power is vested in a general assembly, consisting of a senate and house of commons. The senators are chosen annually, one from each county. The members of the house of commons... | |
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