Excerpt from Constitutions of Pennsylvania, Constitution of the United States: Analytically Indexed and With Index of Legislation Prohibited in Pennsylvania This edition of the Constitutions of Pennsylvania of 1873, 1838, 1790 and 1776 and of the Constitution of the United States was prepared because there was not accessible in separate form an indexed edition of these Constitutions. An edition of the Constitution of Pennsylvania of 1873, with an analytical index and an index of subjects upon which legislation is expressly prohibited by the Constitution, was published by the Legislative Reference Bureau in 1912. The value of that edition has been demonstrated. By the Act of April 14, 1835, P. L. 270 the question of calling a Convention to amend the Constitution of 1790 was submitted to the electors. The vote being in favor of a Convention, it was called and amendments to the Constitution of 1790 were proposed. These amendments only were submitted to the electors and adopted. The so-called Constitution of 1838 is, therefore, properly the Constitution of 1790 as amended: However, in this edition it has been treated as it is popularly known, the Constitution of 1838. The Constitution of 1873 has been variously amended. These amendments have been inserted in their appropriate places and are followed with the sections as they originally read. The amendments adopted subsequent to 1838 and prior to the Constitution of 1873 have been treated as amendments to the Constitution of 1838 and have been inserted similarly to those adopted to the Constitution of 1873. After each section of the Constitutions of Pennsylvania, notes have been appended, showing the corresponding sections in the other prior and subsequent Constitutions of the Commonwealth. An exact similarly in the language of these corresponding sections is designated by the word verbatim. By the use of these notes the origin and development of a particular provision can be readily traced. We shall be grateful if attention is directed to any errors in this edition. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.