A Treatise on Constitutional Conventions: Their History, Powers, and Modes of Proceeding

Callaghan, 1887 - 684 páginas

OF THE VARIOUS KINDS OF CONVENTIONS	1

sovereign body and a Constitution or law fundamental	17

Modes in which sovereignty manifests itself 23	23

How sovereignty inheres in the people of the United States 5461	54

CHAPTER III	67

Specific varieties of Constitutions as organic growths	70

In the United States all Constitutions considered as instruments of evidence	84

Rules of construction applicable to each	91

Can the electors fill a vacancy in a Convention at any time	348

latures to bind Conventions	383

CHAPTER VII	490

Separate topics necessary to a complete exposition of the subject of this chap	496

Nature of the act performed by the persons or body to whom submis	506

d Powers of Conventions growing out of their relations to	509

In what manner Constitutions should be submitted 514520	514

How Constitutions should be certified and promulgated 521524	521

CHAPTER IV	99

Requisites to the legitimacy of Constitutional Conventions 104259	105

The proper mode of initiating or calling a Convention	114

New Hampshire Conventions of 1778 and 1781 History	132

New York Convention of 1776 History and character	150

Action of Congress on these recommendations Call of the sec	165

The Kansas Convention of 1858 at Leavenworth	208

tion	261

Of the constitution of Conventions 267271	267

Of the internal organization of Conventions 272274	275

Question as to form of the oath Discussion in North Carolina in 1835	283

Meaning of the term power	305

To examine the first theory the principal object of this work	313

Can a Convention assume the function of the electors to fill	338

Necessity of some provision for amending Constitutions	525

Practical questions relating to the subject of this chapter 547574	547

When Congress has submitted amendments to the States can it recall	585

APPENDIX	598

A Extract from an article in the Revue des Deux Mondes entitled Du Pouvoir	637

B List of all the Conventions thus far held in the United States p	643

Observations of the author upon a notice of this work published by	656

Opinion of the Judges of the Supreme Court of New York touching	663

b The mode by the agency of the legislature without a Convention	667

F Objections of the New York Council of Revision to the New York Conven	669

Can legislatures bind Conventions to submit	679

Discussion in Illinois in 1862 and 1869 282 283	683

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Título	A Treatise on Constitutional Conventions: Their History, Powers, and Modes of Proceeding
Autor	John Alexander Jameson
Edición	4
Editor	Callaghan, 1887
Procedencia del original	Universidad de Harvard
Digitalizado	30 Jun. 2008
Largo	684 páginas

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