Mobile Fire Department Insurance v. Parsons

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• explaining that Article VI, Section 1 expressly grants the legislature authority to create a public office and to impose terms and limitations on the tenure or removal of one holding that office
• explaining that Article VI, Section 1 expressly grants the legislature authority to create a public office and to impose terms and limitations on the tenure or removal of one holding that office
• explaining that [a]rticle VI, [s]ection 1 [of the Pennsylvania Constitution] expressly grants the [L]egislature authority to create a public office and to impose terms and limitations on the tenure or removal of one holding that office
• ordering agency to restore plaintiff to his position and awarding backpay where the governor exceeded his constitutional authority to remove the plaintiff
• applying the prior version of [a]rticle VI, [s]ection 7 [of the Pennsylvania Constitution]
• “There is nothing in the Constitution prohibiting such [legisla-five] action while, on the other hand, Article XII, Section 1 [now Article VI, Section 1], expressly admits of it.”

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