![]() All other bills and ordinances may take rise in the house of assembly or legislative council, and may be altered, amended, or rejected by either.ĪRT. All money-bills for the support of government shall originate in the house of assembly, and may be altered, amended, or rejected by the legislative council. They may also severally expel any of their own members for misbehavior, but not a second time in the same sessions for the same offence, if reelected and they shall have all other powers necessary for the legislature of a free and independent State.ĪRT. The right of suffrage in the election of members for both houses shall remain as exercised by law at present and each house shall choose its own speaker, appoint its own officers, judge of the qualifications and elections of its own members, settle its own rules of proceedings, and direct writs of election for supplying intermediate vacancies. And this rotation of a councillor being displaced at the end of three years in each county, and his office supplied by a new choice, shall be continued afterwards in due order annually forever, whereby, after the first general election, a councillor will remain in trust for three years from the time of his being elected, and a councillor will be displaced, and the same or another chosen in each county at every election.ĪRT. And at the end of three years from the first general election, the councillor who had the greatest number of votes in each county shall be displaced, and the vacancies thereby occasioned supplied by a new election in manner aforesaid. ![]() At the end of two years after the first general election, the councillor who stood second in number of votes in each county shall be displaced, and the vacancies thereby occasioned supplied by a new election in manner aforesaid. At the end of one year after the general election, the councillor who had the smallest number of votes in each county shall be displaced, and the vacancies thereby occasioned supplied by the freemen of each county choosing the same or another person at a new election in manner aforesaid. 4.4 The other branch shall be called " The council," and consist of nine members three to be chosen for each county at the time of the first election of the assembly, who shall be freeholders of the county for which they are chosen, and be upwards of twenty-five years of age. One of the branches of- the Legislature shall be called, " The House of Assembly," and shall consist of seven Representatives to be chosen for each county annually of such persons as are freeholders of the same.ĪRT. The Legislature shall be formed of two distinct branches they shall meet once or oftener in every year, and shall be called, " The General Assembly of Delaware."ĪRT. The government of the counties of New- Castle, Kent and Sussex, upon Delaware, shall hereafter in all public and other writings be called The Delaware State.ĪRT. The Constitution, or System of Government, agreed to and resolved upon by the Representatives in full Convention of the Delaware State, formerly styled "The Government of the Counties of New Castle, Kent, and Sussex, upon Delaware," the said Representatives being chosen by the Freemen of the said State for that express Purpose.ĪRTICLE 1.
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