Corpus Bilingüe Tomo I Vol. 1 - Archivo Abierto Institucional de la ...

SECTION I.
LUIS GRAU
Th e Co m m o n W e A l T h o r sT A T e o f ve r m o n T, shall be governed hereafter, by a
Governor, (or Lieutenant-Governor,) Council, and an Assembly of the Representatives
of the freemen of the same, in manner and form following:
SECTION II.
The supreme legislative power shall be vested in such Assembly. 22
SECTION III.
The supreme executive power shall be vested in a Governor (or, in his absence,
a Lieutenant-Governor) and Council.
SECTION IV.
Courts of justice shall be maintained in every county in this State, and also in
new counties when formed; which courts shall be open for the trial of all causes
proper for their cognizance, and justice shall be therein impartially administered,
without corruption, or unnecessary delay. The judges of the supreme court shall
be justices of the peace throughout the State, and the several judges of the county
courts in their respective counties, by virtue of their offices, (except in the trial of
such causes 23 as may be appealed to the county court.)
SECTION V.
A future Legislature may, when they shall conceive the same to be expedient
and necessary, erect a court of chancery, with such powers as are usually exercised
by that court, or as shall appear for the interest of the commonwealth; and
also a court to correct the errors of the supreme court of judicature: 24 provided
they do not constitute themselves the judges of either 25 of the said court.
SECTION VI.
The legislative, executive, and judiciary departments, shall be separate and
distinct, so that neither exercise the powers properly belonging to the other.
SECTION VII.
To prevent unnecessary expense in legislation, for the more deliberate and expeditious
proceeding in that important business, and that the freemen may be better and
more equally represented, the whole number of Representatives in Assembly shall
not exceed fifty; to be elected in manner following: – each organized town in this
State, on the first Tuesday in September annually, shall have liberty to choose one
able, discreet freeholder, to represent them in a county convention, to be held at such
22. En Poore y Thorpe “in a house of Representatives of the freemen, or Commonwealth, or
State of Vermont”.
23. En Thorpe “cases”.
24. Falta “and also a court to correct the errors of the supreme court of judicature” en Poore y
Thorpe.
25. Falta “of either” en Poore y Thorpe.
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