All civil officers shall hold their offices on the condition
that they behave themselves well while in office, and shall be
removed on conviction of seditious conspiracy against the United
States, misbehavior in office or of any infamous crime.
Appointed civil officers, other than judges of the courts of
record, may be removed at the pleasure of the power by which
they shall have been appointed. All civil officers elected by
the people, except the Governor, the Lieutenant Governor,
members of the General Assembly and judges of the courts of
record, shall be removed by the Governor for reasonable cause,
after due notice and full hearing, on the address of two-thirds
of the Senate.
Section 2. (a) Upon the first passage by the General
Assembly of these proposed constitutional amendments, the
Secretary of the Commonwealth shall proceed immediately to
comply with the advertising requirements of section 1 of Article
XI of the Constitution of Pennsylvania and shall transmit the
required advertisements to two newspapers in every county in
which such newspapers are published in sufficient time after
passage of these proposed constitutional amendments.
(b) Upon the second passage by the General Assembly of these
proposed constitutional amendments, the Secretary of the
Commonwealth shall proceed immediately to comply with the
advertising requirements of section 1 of Article XI of the
Constitution of Pennsylvania and shall transmit the required
advertisements to two newspapers in every county in which such
newspapers are published in sufficient time after passage of
these proposed constitutional amendments. The Secretary of the
Commonwealth shall submit the proposed constitutional amendments
under section 1 of this resolution to the qualified electors of
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