The Quaker Colonies : a Chronicle of the Proprietors of the Delaware
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This he accepted, and it became the constitution under which Pennsylvania lived and prospered for seventy-five years, until the Revolution of 1776.
This new constitution was quite liberal. The most noticeable feature of it was the absence of any provision for the large elective council or upper house of legislation, which had been very unpopular. The Assembly thus became the one legislative body. There was incidental reference in the document to a governor's council, although there was no forma...l clause creating it. Penn and his heirs after his death always appointed a small council as an advisory body for the deputy gover- nor. The Assembly was to be chosen annually by the freemen and to be composed of four repre- sentatives from each county. It could originate bills, control its own adjournments without in- terference from the Governor, choose its speaker and other officers, and judge of the qualifications TROUBLES OF PENN AND HIS SONS 73 and election of its own members. These were standard Anglo-Saxon popular parliamentary rights developed by long struggles in England and now established in Pennsylvania never to be relaxed.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
This he accepted, and it became the constitution under which Pennsylvania lived and prospered for seventy-five years, until the Revolution of 1776.
This new constitution was quite liberal. The most noticeable feature of it was the absence of any provision for the large elective council or upper house of legislation, which had been very unpopular. The Assembly thus became the one legislative body. There was incidental reference in the document to a governor's council, although there was no forma...l clause creating it. Penn and his heirs after his death always appointed a small council as an advisory body for the deputy gover- nor. The Assembly was to be chosen annually by the freemen and to be composed of four repre- sentatives from each county. It could originate bills, control its own adjournments without in- terference from the Governor, choose its speaker and other officers, and judge of the qualifications TROUBLES OF PENN AND HIS SONS 73 and election of its own members. These were standard Anglo-Saxon popular parliamentary rights developed by long struggles in England and now established in Pennsylvania never to be relaxed.
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