election, in at least two newspapers in every county in
which such newspapers shall be published."
(iii) For reasons still unknown, the Secretary of
the Commonwealth failed to perform this mandatory duty.
(iv) The Secretary's malfeasance frustrates the
Constitutional amendment process; denies the People of
Pennsylvania their opportunity to have their voices heard
in amending their Constitution; and, threatens the very
nature of the Commonwealth's Republican form of
government.
(2) The General Assembly hereby determines that the
deprivation of the rights granted to the People of this
Commonwealth to vote on an amendment to Pennsylvania's
chartering document by an unelected bureaucrat constitutes a
major emergency that threatens or is about to threaten this
Commonwealth and the safety or welfare of this Commonwealth
and therefore requires prompt amendment of the Constitution
of Pennsylvania by this constitutional amendment.
Section 2. The following amendment to the Constitution of
Pennsylvania is proposed in accordance with Article XI:
That section 11 of Article I be amended to read:
ยง 11. Courts to be open; suits against the Commonwealth.
(a) All courts shall be open; and every man for an injury
done him in his lands, goods, person or reputation shall have
remedy by due course of law, and right and justice administered
without sale, denial or delay. Suits may be brought against the
Commonwealth in such manner, in such courts and in such cases as
the Legislature may by law direct.
(b) An individual for whom a statutory limitations period
has already expired shall have a period of two years from the
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