Ordered Liberty : : A Constitutional History of NY / / Peter Galie.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Fordham University Press Complete eBook-Package Pre-2014
• VerfasserIn: Galie, Peter,
• Place / Publishing House: New York, NY : : Fordham University Press, , [2021]; ©1995
• Year of Publication: 2021
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (409 p.)

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.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- Preface -- Introduction: New York State and the American Constitutional Experience -- I. Colonial Roots -- 2. The First Constitution, 1777: Constitutional Sobriety in a Revolutionary War -- 3. Establishing the New Government: 1777-1800 -- 4. The First Constitutional Convention: 1801 -- 5. Property and Participation: The Constitutional Convention of 1821 -- 6. Commerce, Canals, and the Common Man: The Constitutional Convention of 1846 -- 7. The First Failure: The Constitutional Convention of 1867 -- 8. New Modes of Constitutional Revision: The Birth of the Constitutional Commission, 1868-1894 -- 9. On the Threshold of the Twentieth Century: The Constitution of 1894 -- 10. The Progressive Movement and the Constitutional Convention of 1915 -- 11. Re-establishing the Government: Constitutional Development, 1915-1938 -- 12. Constitution-Making During the Depression: The Constitutional Convention of 1938 -- 13. Constitutional Change Between Conventions: 1938-1967 -- 14. Modernizing the Constitution: The Constitutional Convention of 1967 -- 15. Contemporary Constitutional Developments: 1968-1995 -- 16. Toward the Year 2000: Reflections on New York's Constitutional Tradition -- New York Constitutional History: A Guide to Sources and Commentary -- Table of Cases -- Index