Publisher's Synopsis
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1870 edition. Excerpt: ... A. The Ninth Article of the Constitution of October, A. D. 1789, providing for its amendment, requires every alteration to be proposed in the General Convention, and the proposed amendment "to be made known" to the several Diocesan Conventions, but confers no power on a Diocesan Convention to refuse its assent and obedience to the Constitution, when amended in the ensuing General Convention. The great Council of the Church in General Convention is, therefore, supreme in making amendments; admitting no coordinate authority, whether in one or in all the Dioceses, separately acting, nor otherwise than by their Deputies, being assembled in General Convention and representing the whole Church. Q. Let us examine this point more particularly. Recite the words of the Eleventh Article of the Constitution as proposed to the State Conventions in A. D. 1785. A. Article XI.: "This General Ecclesiastical Constitution, when ratified by the Church in the different States, shall be considered as fundamental, and shall be unalterable by the Convention of the Church in any State." Hawks & Perry's Ed. Jour. Gen. Conv. A. D. 1785, p. 23. Q. Recite the Eleventh Article of the Constitution, as proposed to the State Conventions in A. D. 1786. A. Article XI.: "The Constitution of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the United States of America, when ratified by the Church in a majority of the States assembled in General Convention, with sufficient power for the purpose of such ratification, shall be unalterable by the Convention of any particular State which hath been represented at the time of such ratification." Hawks & Perry's Ed. Jour. Gen. Conv. A. D. 1786, p. 42. Q. Where is "the Church" affirmed to be, for the purpose of Ratification? A. "Assembled in...
