 The legislative power of the State is vested in a senate and a house of representatives, and when it is declared that any city of the required population may frame and adopt a charter for its own government the right thus granted and the charter adopted...  Documents Accompanying the Journal ... - Page 8by Michigan. Legislature - 1863Full view - About this book
 | Michigan. Supreme Court, Randolph Manning, George C. Gibbs, Thomas McIntyre Cooley, Elijah W. Meddaugh, William Jennison, Hovey K. Clarke, Hoyt Post, Henry Allen Chaney, William Dudley Fuller, John Adams Brooks, Marquis B. Eaton, Herschel Bouton Lazell, James M. Reasoner, Richard W. Cooper - Law reports, digests, etc - 1854 - 650 pages
...Executive and Judicial ; and amongst these departments all the powers of government are distributed. The legislative power of the State is vested in a Senate and House of Representatives, and the other powers are vested in the appropriate departments. All the powers of government are thus... | |
 | Michigan. Legislature. House of Representatives - Legislative journals - 1863 - 974 pages
...designate the office to which each person so named is intended to be chosen." The question in this~case is simply whether the last above named ballots cast...office. The only name given to the office is that of " Representative." In the opinion of your committee, if the ballots had stated simply, " For Representative,"... | |
 | Almanacs, American - 1864 - 670 pages
...and County officers, and of members of the Legislature, ie held on the fourth Thursday of October. The LEGISLATIVE power of the State is vested in a Senate and House of Delegates, — the former consisting of twenty-two Senators, elected for two years, and the latter... | |
 | Henry Barnard - Education - 1869 - 838 pages
...the electors of the state, on the 4th Thursday of October, biennially, and hold office for two years. The legislative power of the state is vested in a Senate and House of Delegates, the former consisting of 22 Senators, elected for two years, and the latter of 57 Delegates,... | |
 | David Nelson Camp - Almanacs, American - 1869 - 844 pages
...the electors of the state, on the 4th Thursday of October, biennially, and hold office for two years. The legislative power of the state is vested in a Senate and House of Delegates, the former consisting of 22 Senators, elected for two years, and the latter of 57 Delegates,... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1886 - 880 pages
...The present question must be decided with reference to oui existing constitution. By that instrument, the legislative power of the state is vested in a senate and assembly; Const., art. 3, sec. 1. The enacting clause of all bills is required to be, " The people... | |
 | Silas Matteson Weaver - Iowa - 1897 - 138 pages
...the others. CHAPTER IX LE0I8LATIVE DEPARTMENT 1. General Assembly (37)—The legislative authority of the State is vested in a Senate and House of Representatives. Every law of the State begins with the sentence "BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENEBAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE... | |
 | Ellis Paxson Oberholtzer - Referendum - 1900 - 454 pages
...authority to the city-made charters and ordinances. The Supreme Court of Missouri in 1889 said : " The legislative power of the State is vested in a senate and a house of representatives, and, when it is declared that any city of the required population may frame... | |
 | Donald Littlefield Morrill - Illinois - 1901 - 360 pages
...suffrage and other matters, will be considered in subsequent chapters. THE LEGISLATIVE DEPARTMENT. The legislative power of the State is vested in a senate and house of representatives, the members of both of which are elected by the people. A candidate for either of these positions must... | |
 | William James McKone - Michigan - 1904 - 250 pages
...power is vested in a senate and house of representatives. The legislative or law-making department of the state is vested in a senate and house of representatives. In the work of legislation the two houses are equal. The senate has fewer members but terms, pay, and... | |
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