Pennsylvania, colonial and federal : a history, 1608-1903 . nstitution of 1790 w^as repeated inarticle VII of the constitution of 1838. The educational article of the constitution of 1873 provides asfollows: Section i. The general assembly shall provide for themaintenance and support of a thorough and efficient system ofpublic schools, wherein all the children of this commonw^ealthabove the age of six years may be educated, and shall appropriateat least one million dollars each year for that purpose. Section 2. No money raised for the support of the publicschools of the commonwealth shall be a
Pennsylvania, colonial and federal : a history, 1608-1903 . nstitution of 1790 w^as repeated inarticle VII of the constitution of 1838. The educational article of the constitution of 1873 provides asfollows: Section i. The general assembly shall provide for themaintenance and support of a thorough and efficient system ofpublic schools, wherein all the children of this commonw^ealthabove the age of six years may be educated, and shall appropriateat least one million dollars each year for that purpose. Section 2. No money raised for the support of the publicschools of the commonwealth shall be appropriated to or used forthe support of any sectarian school. Section 3. Women twenty-one years of age and upwardsshall be eligible to any office of control or management under theschool lawS of this state. To the foregoing extracts we append an important decision ofthe Supreme court which may be said to have saved the life of thePennsylvania system of common schools. In the case of the Com-monw-ealth vs. Hartman (17 Pa., 118), it was held as follows: 24. Thaddcus Stevens Member State Legislature 1833-1835; exertedgreat influence in saving the school system otIcnnsylvania; member State ConstitutionalConvention 1837; member State Legislature1837-1838 and most prominent member ot theWhig and anti-Mason House; member MateLegislature again 1841; congressman again 1858-1868; anti-slavery advocate;initiated the movement which resulted m theFourteenth Amendment to ihe lederal Con-stitution; 1868, advocated the impeachment otPresident Tohnson and was chairman of theboard of managers api>oiined to conduct thetrial The Educational System It seems to be believed that the last clause of this section (Sec. i,Article VII of the constitution. 1790, and repeated as Art. VII inthe constitution of 1838) is a limitation to the ]))wer of the legis-lature, and that no law can be constitutional which looks to anyother object than that of teaching the poor gratis. The errorconsists i
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