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Often appears with: rights and liberties · popular ratification · elections and representation · election of representatives · constitutions and founding law · constitution as binding law
Usually: narrative (1) · detachment (1) · praise (1)
Paine describes how Pennsylvania’s constitution was proposed by county elections, deliberated in a Philadelphia convention, published for popular approval, then signed and put into force as a people-controlled law.
recommend to the several counties to elect six representatives for each county, to meet in convention at Philadelphia, with powers to form a constitution, and propose it for public consideration. This convention, of which Benjamin Franklin was president, having met and deliberated, and agreed upon a constitution, they next ordered it to be published, not as a thing established, but for the consideration of the whole…