Charter Revision in the Empire State: The Politics of New York's 1967 Constitutional Convention

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SUNY Press, 1 Μαρ 1997 - 449 σελίδες
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

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The author of this book on the 1967 convention is Henrik N. Dullea, vice-president for university relations at Cornell University. He is a graduate of Cornell and received his Ph.D. degree in political science from the Maxwell Graduate School of Syracuse University. From 1983 to 1991, Dullea was director of state operations and policy management for Governor Mario M. Cuomo, responsible for the day-to-day activities of New York State's departments and agencies.

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