Legal And Judicial History Of New York Classic Reprint

Download or read book Legal and Judicial History of New York (Classic Reprint) written by Alden Chester and published by . This book was released on 2015-09-27 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Legal and Judicial History of New York In 1842 it was resolved to curtail the power of the legislature to incur debt. This decision and the reaction against the tendency to involve the government in private business led to the convention of 1846. The work of that convention and the constitution reported by it, the third constitution of the State, have been discussed in this book. Whatever may be the common impression, the most important part of the labor of that convention dealt with the subject of public debts. The next succeeding constitutional convention was that of 1867, all of whose work except the judiciary article was rejected at the polls. Then followed the constitutional commission of 1872, which took up a large part of the unaccepted effort of the convention of 1867, revised it, and presented it to the State legislatures in such form that much of it was eventually incorporated in the constitution. To the able and thoughtful men in the convention of 1867 it must have seemed lamentable that their labors were not appreciated. The valuable ideas which the convention formulated first passed through the crucible of public discussion and afterwards were debated in the commission of 1872. The good work of the convention was not lost; on the contrary it was improved, and fortunately for the people, some notions much in vogue at the time were never submitted by the legislature for popular vote, and were happily kept out of the organic law. The lesson which that period should teach is that proposed constitutional changes need thorough consideration before their submission to the people. In 1890 a constitutional commission was summoned into being to revise the judiciary article. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.