Charter Revision in the Empire State: The Politics of New York's 1967 Constitutional ConventionSUNY Press, 1. mars 1997 - 449 sider Few citizens know much about the constitution of their state. Some don't even know there is one. Yet state constitutions are basic instruments of our democracy. They structure state and local government and stipulate the rights of citizenship. In New York State, as in others, the Constitution mandates a periodic vote on whether the state Constitution should be revised. In New York, a mandatory ballot question is put before the voters every twenty years -- "Shall there be a convention to revise the constitution and amend the same?" Seven months prior to the next such vote -- which will be held on Election Day, November 4, 1997 -- the Nelson A. Rockefeller Institute of Government is publishing companion books on the New York State Constitution -- one a sourcebook on constitutional change in New York, the other a rich history of the last constitutional convention held in New York State, that in 1967. |
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Introduction The Scope of the Study | 3 |
Why Study the Convention And How | 11 |
The Road to the 67 Convention | 25 |
The Call of the Convention | 27 |
The Delegates Their Nomination and Election | 75 |
Preparing for the Convention | 129 |
Open for Business | 151 |
The Convention at Work Drafting the Charter | 167 |
City and State | 271 |
The Judiciary Again | 301 |
United Parcel or Piecemeal Presenting the New Constitution | 321 |
What Happened? | 331 |
The Ratification Campaign | 333 |
Patterns of Conflict and Cohesion | 349 |
A Magnificent Failure? | 371 |
Delegates to the 1967 New York State Constitutional Convention | 405 |
Procedure at the Convention | 169 |
The Structure of Government | 175 |
The Fight Over Blaine | 217 |
Rights and Resources | 241 |
Bibliography | 415 |
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