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  • Presiding over the Café Dona Paca is the visage of none other than Doña Paca herself (Francisca de Iturbe y Anciola), whose fifth-generation descendants Margarita Pedraza and Luis Pedraza own and operate the Mansion Iturbe with their mother, Margarita Arriaga.

    The Serene Magic Of Patzcuaro 2007

  • Presiding over the Café Dona Paca is the visage of none other than Doña Paca herself (Francisca de Iturbe y Anciola), whose fifth-generation descendants Margarita Pedraza and Luis Pedraza own and operate the Mansion Iturbe with their mother, Margarita Arriaga.

    The Serene Magic Of Patzcuaro 2007

  • Arriving at a place called Paca in the said valley, the Inca went out against his brother Urco, and there was a battle between them.

    History of the Incas Pedro Sarmiento de Gamboa

  • New Anticapitalist Party [party website, in French], a radical left-wing party, in the southeast region of France, known as the Paca region.

    JURIST - Paper Chase Gabriela Forbes 2010

  • Once the main issue was decided, Paca again laid his propositions before the convention.

    Ratification Pauline Maier 2010

  • Paca had not, however, finished preparing the amendments, so he “requested indulgence, until the morning, for that purpose.”

    Ratification Pauline Maier 2010

  • Paca was then ruled out of order because—as the majority insisted—the question before the convention was whether it would “assent to and ratify the proposed constitution,” not whether it would propose amendments.

    Ratification Pauline Maier 2010

  • But support for paper money and opposition to the Constitution among individuals and counties did not correlate closely, and the amendments Paca and his colleagues proposed said nothing at all about paper money or any other part of the Constitution that threatened their financial welfare except perhaps the provision on taxes.

    Ratification Pauline Maier 2010

  • When some members of the majority insisted that no amendments other than those the committee had approved should be presented to the convention, Paca and his colleagues proposed a compromise.

    Ratification Pauline Maier 2010

  • When Paca tried to introduce his amendments, a delegate from each of eleven counties and from Annapolis and Baltimore rose, one by one, and declared that they were obliged to vote for ratification and could propose no amendments since their constituents had given them no directions on that issue.

    Ratification Pauline Maier 2010

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