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1 Manning J. Dauer & William C. Harvard, The Florida Constitution of 1885 - A Critique 1 (1955)

handle is hein.statecon/flctcq0001 and id is 1 raw text is: University of Florida Law Review VOL. VIII SPRING 1955 No. 1 THE FLORIDA CONSTITUTION OF I885- A CRITIQUE MANNING J. DAUER AND WILLIAM C. HAVARD* The State Constitutions are the oldest things in the political history of America .... .I The Constitution of the State of Florida2 was written in 1885 and went into effect in 1887. It is the fifth constitution in the history of the state, the others having been enacted in 1838 (effective 1845), 1861, 1865, and 1868 (effective 1869). It has served the staf-as basic law for a period of time over one third as long as all of the previous consti- tutions together; and, since Florida did not become a state until 1845, it has been in use four times as long as the original constitution and well over three times as long as the 1868 document, which is second among the five constitutions in length of service. Since the beginning of World War II serious concern has been expressed over the adequacy of the Constitution of 1885 to serve the needs of the OManning J. Dauer, A.B. 1930, MA. 1931, University of Florida; Ph.D- 1933, University of Illinois; Author of The Adams Federalist and articles in the field of government organization; Professor of Political Science and Head of Department, University of Florida. William C. Havard, A.B. 1943, M.A. 1947, Louisiana State University; Acting Director, University of Florida Public Administration Clearing Service; Author, The Government of Louisiana (in press) and of articles and reports on government or- ganization; Assistant Professor of Political Science, University of Florida. 11 BRvcE, TmE AMERICAN COMMONWEALTH 427 (new ed. 1922). 2Unless otherwise indicated, all references are to the Constitution of the State of Florida Adopted by the Convention of 1885 (as amended). Annotations are found in 25, 26 FLA. STAT. ANN. (1950). The Florida Constitution has received much attention. A special committee of the Florida State Bar Association, under the chairmanship of D. H. Redfearn, studied the document for a number of years and has published two drafts of A Proposed Constitution for Florida (1947, 1949). In addition, the Citizens Constitution Committee of Florida, which has been operating actively under the chairmanship of J. E. Dovell since 1949, has published four pamphlets: THE CrrmZNS CoNsTrruTON COMMMrEE OF FLORIDA (1950); T-mn

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