Decision 1997: Constitutional Change in New York

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Gerald Benjamin, Henrik N. Dullea
Rockefeller Institute Press, 1 Μαρ 1997 - 534 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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New Yorks State Constitution
29
The Role of the Constitutional Commission
45
Constitutional Structure
53
State Government Finance
81
Legislative Districting and the New York
105
A Work in Progress
127
The Private Economy
147
Intergovernmental Relations
155
Education
281
Social Policy
301
The Environment
317
A Pandoras Box? Holding a Constitutional
351
Learning
367
Constitutional Convention Delegates
381
The Delegate Selection Process
405
Delegate Selection and the Problem of Ballot Access
435

Elections and the Political Process
193
Reforming New Yorks Constitutional
217
Individual Liberties
233
Criminal Justice
255
The Election of Delegates to the Constitutional
473
Public Campaign Financing
491
Author Biographies
513
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The editors of this sourcebook on Decision 1997 are Gerald Benjamin, Interim Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences and Professor of Political Science at the State University at New Paltz, and Henrik N. Dullea, Vice-president for University Relations at Cornell University. The material presented grew out of the work of the Temporary Commission on Constitutional Revision created in 1993 and chaired by Peter G. Goldmark Jr.

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