Ordered Liberty

by Galie, Peter J.

• ISBN13: 9780823216529
• ISBN10: 0823216527
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1996-01-01
• Publisher: Fordham Univ Pr

Summary

The impending 1997 mandate to place before the voters the question on whether to convene a convention to revise and amend the New York Constitution becomes increasingly important and deserving of careful attention. Ordered Liberty provides a comprehensive chronicle of the constitutional history of New York state. There exists no single or multi-volumed work in print which examines this crucial history. This volume, bringing all previously published studies up to date, uses as its organizational frame the nine constitutional conventions in New York history and the constitutions each produced. Each convention is placed in its political, legal, and economic context- the work of the convention is examined, and the political theory reflected in each is explained. Finally, an assessment of each convention's accomplishments is presented. Subsequent sections of the volume examine appropriate methods to achieve that reform. An extensive bibliographical essay of primary and secondary sources on the state's constitutional history is provided.

Author Biography

Peter Galie is Professor of Political Science at Canisius College.

Table of Contents

Preface	p. ix
Notes	p. x
Introduction New York State and the American Constitutional Experience	p. 1
Notes	p. 7
Colonial Roots	p. 9
Notes	p. 30
The First Constitution, 1777: Constitutional Sobriety in a Revolutionary War	p. 36
Notes	p. 51
Establishing the New Government: 1777-1800	p. 56
Notes	p. 62
The First Constitutional Convention: 1801	p. 64
Notes	p. 69
Property and Participation: the Constitutional Convention of 1821	p. 71
Notes	p. 91
Commerce, Canals, and the Common Man: the Constitutional Convention of 1846	p. 95
Notes	p. 113
The First Failure: the Constitutional Convention of 1867	p. 117
Notes	p. 134
New Modes of Constitutional Revision: the Birth of the Constitutional Commission, 1868-1894	p. 137
Notes	p. 155
On the Threshold of the Twentieth Century: the Constitution of 1894	p. 159
Notes	p. 184
The Progressive Movement and the Constitutional Convention of 1915	p. 188
Notes	p. 201
Re-Establishing the Government: Constitutional Development, 1915-1938	p. 204
Notes	p. 225
Constitution-Making During the Depression: the Constitutional Convention of 1938	p. 230
Notes	p. 259
Constitutional Change Between Conventions: 1938-1967	p. 262
Notes	p. 300
Modernizing the Constitution: the Constitutional Convention of 1967	p. 307
Notes	p. 328
Contemporary Constitutional Developments: 1968-1995	p. 332
Notes	p. 353
Toward the Year 2000: Reflections on New York's Constitutional Tradition	p. 358
Notes	p. 372
New York Constitutional History: a Guide to Sources and Commentary	p. 377
Table of Cases	p. 395
Index	p. 398
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