The United States Democratic Review Volume 18 (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1846 Excerpt: ...Secretary of State, Attorney General, Clerk of any Court of Record, Sheriff, or Collector, or any person holding a lucrative office under the United States, or this state, or any foreign government, shall bo eligible to the Legislature, nor shall at the same time hold or exercise any two offices, agencies or appointments of trust or profit under this state: Provided, that offices of the militia, to which there is attached no annual salary, or the office of justice of the peace, shall not be deemed lucrative. ' No person who has been entrusted with public monies, shall be eligible to any office of profit or trust under the state government, until he shall have obtained a discharge for the amourU of all monies so entrusted. "Clergymen are ineligible to the Legislature." "No bill is to have the force of a law until on three several d iys it be read in each House, and free discussion be allowed thereon, unless in case of great emergency four-fifths of the House in which the bill may be pending, may deem it expedient to dispense with this.mle. "After a bill or resolution has been rejected by either branch of the Legislature, no bill or resolution containing the same substance shall be passed_iuto a law during the same session." The judicial organization of Texas closely resembles that of Louisiana, except that it grants to the Legislature the power of creating such tribunals inferior to the Supreme and District Courts, as from time to time they may deem necessary. We think Louisiana has wisely denied to the Legislature any right to multiply courts of any kind. The Supreme Court has appellate jurisdiction only, which is co-extensive with the state, but in criminal cnses, and in appeals from interlocutory judgments, subject to be regulated...