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Philippine Commission Law on Declining Office

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Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Jan 29, 1901

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 78, No. 5.

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Philippine Commission Law on Declining Office

On the legislation of that American-Philippine Commission, it was stated in the United States Senate, January 16,—Congressional Record, page 1191,—that the commission had enacted that “if any man is elected or appointed to an office, and he declines to accept, he shall serve a term of imprisonment not exceeding three years.” That is exactly the Roman sort of legislation: and by Constantine.