808 Appendix III
- The sovereignty of the republic belongs to no one of the Orders taken sepa-
rately, but the General Council alone shall be called the Sovereign Council.
Translated from Edit de pacification de 1782 imprimé par ordre du Gouvernement
(Geneva, 1782).
- GREAT BRITAIN: THE CANADA ACT, 1791
... May it therefore please Your Most Excellent Majesty that it may be enacted;
and be it enacted by the King’s Most Excellent Majesty, by and with the Advice
and Consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and of the Commons, in this
present Parliament assembled, and by the Authority of the same.... - That every member of each of the said Legislative Councils [of Upper and
Lower Canada] shall hold his seat therein for the term of his Life.... - That whenever His Majesty... shall think proper to confer... under the
Great Seal of either of the said Provinces, any Hereditary Title of Honor, Rank or
Dignity of such Province... it shall and may be lawful... to annex thereto... an
Hereditary Right of being summoned to the Legislative Council of such Prov-
ince... and that every person on whom such Right shall be so conferred, or to
whom such right shall severally so descend, shall thereupon be entitled to demand
of the Governor... his Writ of Summons to such Legislative Council....
Great Britain: Statutes at Large, 31 George III 31. The provision for a hereditary
and titled upper house never went into effect in Canada; its significance is its re-
flection of views in the British Parliament.
- THE UNITED STATES
(1) The Federal Constitution, 1787Article I, Section 9. No title of nobility shall be granted by the United States: and
no person holding any office of profit or trust under them, shall, without the con-
sent of Congress, accept any present, emolument, office or title of any kind what-
ever from any king, prince or foreign state.
Article IV, Section 2. The citizens of each state shall be entitled to all privileges
and immunities of citizens in the several states.... No person held to service or
labor in one state, under the laws thereof, escaping into another, shall... be dis-
charged from such service or labor, but shall be delivered up on claim of the party
to whom such service or labor may be due.
(2) The Pennsylvania Constitution, 1790Article I, 5– 6. The senators shall be chosen for four years by the citizens... ap-
portioned among the districts according to the number of taxable inhabitants in
each....