Goethals $600 IX. Encyclopedia.com. WebThis charter was the governing document of William Penn's Pennsylvania until the American Revolution, outstanding among other colonial constitutions in that it granted religious freedom, separated church and state, and asserted the right of self-governence, second only to the authority of the Crown. The powers that be are ordained of God: whosoever therefore resisteth the power, resisteth the ordinance of God. In 1682, before he left England to become the first governor of Pennsylvania, Penn wrote the Frame of Government, which served as the colony's first constitution. XL. xv. West's Encyclopedia of American Law. And, to prevent frauds and vexatious suits within the said province, that all charters, gifts, grants, and conveyances of and (except leases for a year or under) and all bills, bonds, and specialities above five pounds, and not under three months, made in the said province, shall be enrolled, or registered in the public enrolment office of the said province, within the space of two months next after the making thereof, else to be void in law, and all deeds, grants, and conveyances of land (except as aforesaid) within the said province, and made out of the said province, shall be enrolled or registered, as aforesaid, within six months next after the making thereof, and settling and constituting an enrolment office or registry within the said province, else to be void in law against all persons whatsoever. But I chuse to solve the controversy with this small distinction, and it belongs to all three: Any government is free to the people under it (whatever be the frame) where the law rules, and the people are a party to those laws, and more than this is tyranny, oligarchy, or confusion. I do not find a model in the world, that time, place, and some singular emergences have not necessarily altered: nor is it easy to frame a civil government, that shall serve all places alike. The frame of the government of the province of Pensilvania, in America: together with certain laws agreed upon in England, by the Governor and divers freemen of the aforesaid province. That all pleadings, processes and records in courts, shall be short, and in English, and in an ordinary and plain character, that they may be understood, and justice speedily administered. When the great and wise God had made the world, of all his creatures, it pleased him to chuse man his Deputy to rule it: and to fit him for so great a charge and trust, he did not only qualify him with skill and power, but with integrity to use them justly. There he devised a government, laws and plans for Philadelphia's physical development. xvii. xxxiii. to the Inhabitants of Pennsylvania and Territories, October 28 WebIn his First Frame of Government (1682), he provided for secure private property, free enterprise, free press, trial by jury, and religious toleration. 1, xxviixxviii. Within the Cite this article tool, pick a style to see how all available information looks when formatted according to that style. XXXVIII. WebKing Charles II granted the land for the Pennsylvania Colony to William Penn on March 4, 1681 as payment for a debt the crown owed his family. That all wills, in writing, attested by two witnesses, shall be of the same force as to lands, as other conveyances, being legally proved within forty days, either within or without the said province. XXX.That all scandalous and malicious reporters, backbiters, defamers and spreaders of false news, whether against Magistrates, or private persons, shall be accordingly severely punished as enemies to the peace and concord of this province. That seven years quiet possession shall give an unquestionable right, except in cases of infants, lunatics, married women, or persons beyond the seas. Carolina (Speech), 1787: Selections from the Federalist (Pamphlets), 1787: Wilson, Address to the People of Philadelphia (Speech), 1788: Amendments recommended by the Several State Conventions, 1789: French Declaration of the Rights of Man, 1789: Madison, Speech Introducing Proposed Amendments to the Constitution, 1790: Hamilton, First Report on Public Credit, 1790: Jefferson, Memorandum on the Compromise of 1790, 1790: Price, Discourse on the Love of Our Country (Sermon), 1791: Hamilton, Opinion as to the Constitutionality of the Bank of the US, 1791: Jefferson, Opinion against the Constitutionality of a National Bank, 1791: US Bill of Rights (1st 10 Amendments) - with commentary, 1793: French Republic Constitution of 1793, 1793: Helvidius (Madison), No.
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