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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
act_n	continue_v	parliament_n	session_n	2,943	5	10.7773	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A48880	The fundamental constitutions of Carolina; Constitution (1669)	Locke, John, 1632-1704.	1670 (1670)	Wing L2743A; ESTC R221365	16,616	28

any one Court upon any reason or pretence whatsoever §. 65 For Treason Murther and all other Offences punishable with Death there shall be a Commission twice ayear at least granted unto one or more Members of the Grand Council or Colledges who shall come as itinerant Judges to the several Counties and with the Sheriff and four Iustices shall hold Assizes to Judge all such Causes But upon paying of fifty Pounds Sterling to the Lords Proprietors use there shall be liberty of Appeal to the respective Proprietor's Court. §. 66 The Grand Iury at the several Assizes shall upon their Oaths and under their Hands and Seals deliver in to the itinerant Judges a Presentment of such Grievances Misdemeanors Exigences or Defects which they think necessary for the publick good of the County which Presentment shall by the itinerant Iudges at the end of their Circuit be delivered in to the Grand Council at their next Sitting And whatsoever therein concerns the Execution of Laws already made the several Proprietors Courts in the Matrers belonging to each of them respectively shall take Cognizance of it and give such order about it as shall be effectual for the due Execution of the Laws But whatever concerns the making of any new Law shall be referred to the several respective Courts to which that Matter belongs and be by them prepared and brought to the Grand Council §. 67 For Terms there shall be Quarterly such a certain number of Days nor exceeding one and twenty at any one time as the several respective Courts shall appoint The time for the beginning of the Term in the Precinct Court shall be the first Monday in Ianuary April Iuly and October in the County Court the first Monday in February May August and November and in the Proprietors Courts the first Monday in March Iune September and December §. 68 In the Precinct Court no Man shall be a Iury-man under fifty Acres of Freehold In the County Court or at the Assizes no Man shall be a Grand Iury-man under three hundred Acres of Freehold and no Man shall be a Petty Iury-man under two hundred Acres of Freehold In the Proprietors Courts no Man shall be a Iury-man under five hundred Acres of Freehold §. 69 Every Iury shall consist of twelve Men and it shall not be necessary they should all agree but the Verdict shall be according to the Consent of the Majority §. 70 It shall be a base and vile thing to Plead for Money or Reward nor shall any one except he be a near Kinsman not farther off than Cosin-german to the Party concerned be permitted to Plead another Man's Cause till before the Iudge in open Court he hath taken an Oath that he doth not Plead for Money or Reward nor hath nor will receive nor directly nor indirectly Bargained with the Party whose Cause he is going to Plead for Money or any other Reward for Pleading his Cause §. 71 There shall be a Parliament consisting of the Proprietors or their Deputies the Landgraves and Cassiques and one Freeholder out of every Precinct to be chosen by the Freeholders of the said Preciuct respectively They shall Sit altogether in one Room and have every Member one Vote §. 72 No Man shall be chosen a Member of Parliament who hath less than five hundred Acres of Freehold within the Precinct for which he is chosen nor shall any have a Vote in chusing the said Member that hath less than fifty Acres of Freehold within the said Precinct §. 73 A new Parliament shall be Assembled the first Monday of the Month of November every second Year and shall meet and Sit in the Town they last Sat in without any Summons unless by the Palatine's Court they be Summoned to meet at any other Place And if there shall be any occasion of a Parliament in these Intervals it shall be in the power of the Palatine's Court to Assemble them in forty Days notice and at such Time and Place as the said Court shall think fit and the Palatine's Court shall have power to Dissolve the said Parliment when they shall think fit §. 74 At the opening of every Parliament the first thing that shall be done shall be the reading of these FUNDAMENTAL CONSTITUTIONS which the Palatine and Proprietors and the rest of the Members then present shall Subscribe Nor shall any Person whatsover Sit or Vote in the Parliament till he hath that Session Subscribed these FUNDAMENTAL CONSTITUTIONS in a Book kept for that purpose by the Clerk of the Parliament §. 75 In order to the due Election of Members for the Biennial Parliament it shall be lawful for the Freeholders of the respective Precincts to meet the first Tuesday in September every two Years in the same Town or place that they last met in to chuse Parliament-men and there chuse those Members that are to Sit the next November following unless the Steward of the Precinct shall by sufficient notice thirty Days before appoint some other Place for their Meeting in order to the Election §. 76 No Act or Order of Parliament shall be of any force unless it be Ratified in open Parliament during the same Session by the Palatine or his Deputy and three more of the Lords Proprietors and their Deputies and then not to continue longer in force but until the next Biennial Parliament unless in the mean time it be Ratified under the Hands and Seals of the Palatine himself and three more of the Lords Proprietors themselves and by their Order publish'd at the next Bieunial Parliament §. 77 Any Properietor or his Deputy may Enter his Protestation against any Act of the Parliament before the Palatine or his Deputy's Consent be given as aforesaid if he shall conceive the said Act to be contrary to this Establishment or any of these FUNDAMENTAL CONSTITUTIONS of the Government And in such case after a full and free Debate the several Estates shall retire into four several Chambers the Palatine and Proprietors into one the Landgraves into another the Cassiques into another and those chosen by the Precincts into a fourth and if the major part of any of the four Estates shall Vote that the Law is not agreeable to this Establishment and these FUNDAMENTAL CONSTITUTIONS of the Government then it shall pass no farther but be as if it had never been proposed §. 78 The Quorum of the Parliament shall be one half of those who are Members and capable of Sitting in the House that present Session of Parliament The Quorum of each of the Chambers of Parliament shall be one half of the Members of that Chamber §. 79 To avoid multiplicity of Laws which by degrees always change the right Foundations of the original Government all Acts of Parliament whatsoever in whatsoever Form Passed or Enacted shall at the end of a hundred Years after their Enacting respectively cease and determine of themselves and without any Repeal become null and void as if no such Acts or Laws had