The History of the Consolidation of the City of Philadelphi
by Mathew Price
Format: Paperback
ISBN13: 9781152945470
Paperback|9781152945470
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1873 edition. Excerpt: ...limits may be the same city, bearing the same name under an amended charter, as to corporate identity, but will not be the same division for apportionment of representatives intended by the Constitution, inasmuch as it will be a much larger section of the State. If the enlarged municipality were called the city and county of Pe1m, it could not be doubted that the city limits meant in the Constitution by the city of Philadelphia would be only the original two square miles; and this cannot be less the case, by calling the enlarged city by the old name. The present city was a separate representative and senatorial division in the county of Philadelphia, forbidden to be divided as to senators, but not as to representatives; and the Constitution cannot be invaded, by adhering to the same limits in apportioning the representation, although the other parts of the county are to be also embraced in the corporate limits and called the city of Philadelphia. If the two square miles were incorporated under the name of the city ofDc aware, and the residue of the county as the city of Philadelphia, the former, and not the latter, must remain the intended constitu tional division. It is the geographical space and the people therein inhabiting, and not the name, that would establish the identity of the representative division, for this is what was in view when the Constitution was formed. "The question of the extent of the limits of the enlarged city, as one principally affecting the citizens within the proposed boundaries, has claimed their own serious consideration. To take into the city but the present city and districts, would leave the two extremes of the county disconnected, and impose upon their inhabitants the necessity of joining contiguous...
| ISBN-13 | 9781152945470 |
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| ISBN-10 | 1152945475 |
| Weight | 0.23 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.15 In |
| List Price | $14.14 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 62 pages |
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| Published On | 2010-01-01 |
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