Report of the Presbyterian Church case : the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, at the suggestion of James Todd and others,

Miller, Samuel, Jr., a member of the Philadelphia bar, 1816-1883.

Verlag: Philadelphia: 1839., William S. Martien,

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596 p.; 23.5 cm. [title continues] vs. Ashbel Green and others. --`We propose to give as a preliminary to our report, a short account of the peculiar kind of action instituted by the plaintiffs in this case. The writ of Quo Warranto is by no means a common one in the practice either of Pennsylvania, or the other states of the Union. The wrongs which it may be employed to redress, are diversified.' (p. [9] f.) -- Plaintiffs were James Todd, John R. Neff, F. A. Raybold, George W. M`Clelland, William Darling, and Thomas Fleming; vs. Ashbel Green, William Latta, Thomas Bradford, Solomon Allen, and Cornelius C. Cuyler. -- From the opening address of Josiah Randall for plaintiffs: `The ground for these proceedings of excision, upon which the Old-school party rely,is the unconstitutionality of a certain "Plan of Union," entered into in the year 1801.[which] authorized a Presbyterian minister to preach to a Congregational church. The Old-school were determined to secure a future majority in the General Assembly. Accordingly, they proceeded to the work of destruction, and cut off from the church the four Synods above named--Utica, Geneva, Genessee and Western Reserve.' (p. 14 f.) -- From Chief Justice Gibson's opinion of the Court: `The avowed object of [the Plan of Union was for]suffering those who were yet too few and too poor for the maintenance of a minister. It was obviously a missionary arrangement from the first. They embraced it with all its defeasible properties plainly put before them; and the power which constituted it, might fairly repeal it, and dissolve the bodies that had grown out of it.' (p. 589) Worn ex-lib. sheep, front cover detached. Outer pages foxed. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 026006

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Titel: Report of the Presbyterian Church case : the...

Verlag: Philadelphia: 1839., William S. Martien,

Einband: Hardcover