Commonwealth v. Crow
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Commonwealth ex rel. Edward M. Biddle, Jr., v. William E. Crow. Miscellaneous docket, No. 2, No. 292. Suggestion for writ of quo warranto.
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Commonwealth ex rel. Edward M. Biddle, Jr., v. William E. Crow. Miscellaneous docket, No. 2, No. 292. Suggestion for writ of quo warranto. The suggestion, set out that the relator is above the age of twenty-five years, and for the past four years has been a citizen of the state and an inhabitant of the county of Cumberland ; that at the general election on November 6, 1906, he was duly elected to the office of senator in the general assembly for the thirty-second district, composed of the counties of Adams and Cumberland ; that the return .judges of said district issued a certificate of…
1Opinion of the Court
Pee Cueiam,
The substantial question involved is the constitutionality of the senatorial apportionment by the Act of February 17, 1906, P. L. 31. On the general jurisdiction to consider and pass upon that question we entertain no doubt. The judicial power extends to the review of all legislative acts for the comparison of their provisions with the requirements and prohibitions of the constitution, and there is no exception expressed or implied in regard to statutes of apportionment. The constitution requires that the state be divided into fifty senatorial districts, and if, for illustration,…
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