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With authentic copies of the Declaration of independence, the Articles of confederation, and the Constitution of the United States. To which is prefixed an introductory history of the United States. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: J. B. Smith & co. – via Internet Archive, April 30, 2009. Purcell, L. Edward (1993). Who Was Who in the American ...
Members of the Pennsylvania Provincial Assembly before the Pennsylvania Constitution of 1776. Subcategories.
The Pennsylvania House of Representatives chamber in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania with the portrait Apotheosis of Pennsylvania visible on the far wall of the chamber. The Constitution of Pennsylvania is the supreme law within the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. All acts of the General Assembly, the governor, and each governmental agency are ...
September 28: Congress votes to transmit the proposed Constitution to the 13 states for ratification; 1788. July 2: Congress President Cyrus Griffin informs Congress that New Hampshire has ratified the Constitution and notes that it is the ninth ratification, thereby allowing for the establishment of the new government [30]
Pennsylvania State House (present-day Independence Hall), Philadelphia (first) City Hall (present-day Federal Hall) New York City (last) Constitution; Articles of Confederation: Footnotes; Though there were about 50 members of the Congress at any given time, each state delegation voted en bloc, with each state having a single vote.
The Committee of Five of the Second Continental Congress was a group of five members who drafted and presented to the full Congress in Pennsylvania State House what would become the United States Declaration of Independence of July 4, 1776. This Declaration committee operated from June 11, 1776, until July 5, 1776, the day on which the ...
The Pennsylvania General Assembly, the legislature of the U.S. state of Pennsylvania, has convened many times since statehood became effective on December 12, 1787. In earlier colonial times (1682–1776) the legislature was known as the Pennsylvania Provincial Assembly .
A few, including Mysore, Hyderabad, Bhopal, and Bilaspur, became separate states. [3] The new Constitution of India, which came into force on 26 January 1950, made India a sovereign democratic republic. The new republic was also declared to be a "Union of States". The constitution of 1950 distinguished between three main types of states: [3]