Gene STILP, Appellant
v.
COMMONWEALTH of Pennsylvania, Robert P. Casey, Jr., Treasurer of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Robert C. Jubelirer, President Pro Tempore of the Pennsylvania Senate, John M. Perzel, Speaker of the House of Representatives, Appellees.
The Honorable John W. Herron, Appellant
v.
Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Robert C. Jubelirer, President Pro Tempore of the Senate of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, John M. Perzel, Speaker of the House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Tom Corbett, Attorney General of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Robert P. Casey, Jr., State Treasurer of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Appellees.
The Honorable Charles C. Brown, Jr., the Honorable Frank T. Hazel, the Honorable Robert K. Kunselman, the Honorable Benjamin Lerner, the Honorable William A. Meehan, the Honorable Timothy Patrick O'Reilly, and the Honorable Joseph A. Smyth, Appellants
v.
Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Robert P. Casey, Jr., State Treasurer of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Appellees
Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Thomas W. Corbett, Jr., Attorney General, Intervenor.
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Argued April 4, 2006.
Decided September 14, 2006.
Attorney(s) appearing for the Case
Gene Stilp, Appellant pro se in No. 151 MAP 2005.
Mark P. Widoff, Harrisburg, for PA Clean Sweep, Inc. and RocktheCapital.org., appellant amici curiae in No. 151 MAP 2005.
Peter James Speaker, Bret Keisling, Harrisburg, for Thomas, Thomas & Hafer, LLP, appellant amicus curiae in No. 151 MAP 2005.
Calvin R. Koons, Thomas W. Corbett, Gregory R. Neuhauser, John G. Knorr, III, Harrisburg, Amanda L. Smith, for the Com. of PA, appellee in Nos. 151 MAP 2005 and 48 EAP 2005.
Jonathan F. Bloom, Thomas Walter Dymek, C. Clark Hodgson, Jr., John M. Perzel, Leslie Miller Greenspan, Philadelphia, for John M. Perzel, appellee in Nos. 151 MAP 2005 and 48 EAP 2005.
Linda J. Shorey, Robert C. Jubelirer, John P. Krill, Jr., Amy L. Groff, for Robert C. Jubelirer, M.D., appellee in Nos. 151 MAP 2005 and 48 EAP 2005.
Sally Ann Ulrich, Robert P. Casey, for Robert P. Casey, Jr., appellee in Nos. 151 MAP 2005, 48 EAP 2005, 9 MAP 2006.
Kristin M. Hynd, Robert C. Heim, Nory Miller, David Neil Sontag, Kristin Hynd Jones, Benjamin D. Schireson, Philadelphia, for Hon. John W. Herron, appellee amicus curiae in No. 151 MAP 2005 and appellant in No. 48 EAP 2005.
Jane Leslie Dalton, John Jeming Soroko, Matthew Michael Ryan, Philadelphia, for Hon. Charles C. Brown, Jr., et al., appellee amici curiae in No. 151 MAP 2005 and appellant in No. 9 MAP 2006.
Anthony T. McBeth, Robert L. Knupp, Harrisburg, for County Com'rs Ass'n of PA, amicus curiae in No. 48 EAP 2005,
Thomas W. Corbett, Gregory R. Neuhauser, Harrisburg, Amanda L. Smith, for Tom Corbett, appellee in No. 48 EAP 2005.
John Patrick Quinn, H. Robert Fiebach, Gaele M. Barthold, Philadelphia, Thomas G. Wilkinson, Jr., for PA Bar Ass'n, appellant amicus curiae in No. 9 MAP 2006.
Marc J. Sonnenfeld, Timothy D. Mygatt, Thomas V. Ayala, Philadelphia, for Philadelphia Bar Ass'n, appellant amicus curiae in No. 9 MAP 2006.
Gregory R. Neuhauser, Harrisburg, Amanda L. Smith, for the Com. of PA, Atty. Gen., intervenor-appellee in No. 9 MAP 2006.
Before: CASTILLE, NEWMAN, SAYLOR, EAKIN, BAER and BALDWIN, JJ.
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania.
OPINION
Justice CASTILLE.
I. FACTS AND PROCEDURAL HISTORY
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These matters are before this Court, upon exercise of plenary jurisdiction,1 based upon the important constitutional questions posed by the parties. The absence of a developed record is no impediment to review of these questions because the cases pose purely legal challenges to two pieces of legislation: Act 44 of 2005,
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