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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.
A More Perfect Union: America Becomes a Nation is a 1989 American feature film dramatizing the events of the 1787 Constitutional Convention.The film was produced by Brigham Young University to commemorate the 200th anniversary of the drafting of the United States Constitution, and many professors from BYU's School of Fine Arts and Communications were involved in its production either as actors ...
The 1790 Constitution made no provision for a lieutenant governor. Upon the death or resignation of the governor the office would be assumed by the Speaker of the State Senate . (This position no longer exists.) [ 3 ] The office of lieutenant governor was created by the 1873 State Constitution and first occupied (by John Latta ) in 1875.
Knox v. Greenleaf, 4 U.S. (4 Dall.) 360 (C.C.D. Pa. 1802), is a ruling by the United States Circuit Court for the District of Pennsylvania which held that, under the Pennsylvania Constitution of 1790, citizenship of the state is conferred upon moving to the state and paying taxes.
He was a member of the Supreme Executive Council of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, and on November 5, 1788, he was elected president of the Council, replacing Benjamin Franklin. He was unanimously reelected to the presidency on November 11, 1789. [15] He presided over the committee that wrote Pennsylvania's 1790 state constitution. That ...
Following the ratification of the Constitution, the Congress, while meeting in New York, passed the Residence Act of 1790, which established the District of Columbia as the new federal capital. However, a representative from Pennsylvania, Robert Morris , did manage to convince Congress to return to Philadelphia while the new permanent capital ...
He was a member of the convention of 1776 that drafted the Articles of Confederation, of the Pennsylvania state constitutional convention which ratified the United States Constitution, and of the state constitutional convention of 1790. He served in the Pennsylvania House of Representatives from 1787 to 1790 and the Pennsylvania Senate for the ...
April 6, 1790 North Carolina 4: John Steele (P) April 19, 1790 North Carolina 5: John Sevier (P) June 16, 1790 Rhode Island at-large: New seat Rhode Island ratified the constitution May 29, 1790. Benjamin Bourne (P) December 17, 1790 Virginia 9: Theodorick Bland (A) Died June 1, 1790. William B. Giles (A) December 7, 1790 Massachusetts 5 ...