Legal Opinion

Advertisement of Constitutional Amendments

Pennsylvania Department of Justice

Decided August 11, 1972Published

1Opinion of the Court

CREAMER, Attorney General,

You have requested an opinion from the Department of Justice regarding the requirement appearing in article XI, sec. 1, of the Constitution of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania that constitutional amend*411ments be published by the Secretary of the Commonwealth. Specifically, you wish to know whether that section will be complied with by publishing a constitutional amendment at least once during the months of August, September and October 1972, the three months prior to the next general election to be held in November 1972.

Article XI, sec. 1, states in pertinent part, as…

2Cases cited3 opinions

  1. Commonwealth Ex Rel. Attorney General v. BeamishSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1932
  2. Tausig v. Lawrence, SEC. of Com.Supreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1937
  3. Commonwealth ex rel. Attorney General v. KingSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1923

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