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 N...

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