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Pennsylvania has had five constitutions during its statehood: [4] 1776, 1790, 1838, 1874, and 1968.Prior to that, the colonial Province of Pennsylvania was governed for a century by a book titled Frame of Government, written by William Penn, of which there were four versions: 1682, 1683, 1696, and 1701.
The 1790 Constitution did away with the Supreme Executive Council and vested supreme executive power in the office of governor. On December 21, 1790 Thomas Mifflin, the last President of Pennsylvania, took office as the state's first governor.
Pennsylvania's innovative and highly democratic government structure, featuring a unicameral legislature and collective executive, [2] may have influenced the later French Republic's formation under the French Constitution of 1793. The constitution also included a declaration of rights that coincided with the Virginia Declaration of Rights of ...
1790 The Naturalization Act of 1790 allows free White persons born outside of the United States to become citizens. However, since each state set its own requirements for voting, this Act (and its successor Naturalization Act of 1795 ) did not automatically grant these naturalized citizens the right to vote.
August 11, 1790: Circuit Courts in South Carolina and Georgia, and District Court of Pennsylvania. An Act to alter the Times for holding the Circuit Courts of the United States in the Districts of South Carolina and Georgia, and providing that the District Court of Pennsylvania shall in future be held at the city of Philadelphia only. Sess. 2 ...
The Keystone in the Democratic Arch: Pennsylvania Politics, 1800–1816 (1952) Illick, Joseph E. Colonial Pennsylvania: A History (1976) Ireland, Owen S. Religion, Ethnicity, and Politics: Ratifying the Constitution in Pennsylvania (1995) Kehl, James A. Boss Rule in the Gilded Age: Matt Quay of Pennsylvania; Klees, Fredric. The Pennsylvania ...
1787-1788 Pennsylvania legislature [Wikidata] October 22, 1787 [2] October 4, 1788 October 1787 [3] 1788-1789 Pennsylvania legislature [Wikidata] 1788 1789-1790 Pennsylvania legislature [Wikidata] 1789 Pennsylvania Constitution of 1790 [1] 1790-1791 Pennsylvania legislature [Wikidata] December 7, 1790 September 30, 1791 October 1790 [3]
Per Article II of the 1790 Pennsylvania Constitution, gubernatorial elections were held triennially on the second Tuesday of October, with the three-year term commencing on the third Tuesday of December immediately following the election. Incumbents were permitted to serve for a maximum of nine years out of any period of twelve years.