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9 Pol. Sci. Q. 1 (1894)

handle is hein.journals/pclscceqry9 and id is 1 raw text is: eMarch, 1894. POLITICAL SCIENCE QUARTERLY. SOME IDEAS ON CONSTITUTIONAL REVISION IN NEW YORK. THE recent election of delegates to a convention for the revision of the constitution of the State of New York, challenges attention to certain provisions in that instrument and naturally raises the question : What do the other state constitutions contain on these subjects ? Without examina- tion into the causes of the various provisions, a brief com- parison is here made for the purpose of indicating the general tendency throughout the country. I. Revision and Amendment. When, in the year 1846, the people of the State of New York established their third and still existing constitution, they provided in express terms for a periodical as well as an occasional submission to themselves of the question, whether they desired a revision of their fundamental law. The formal authority for submission of amendments merely, they had already conferred on their legislature in the second state con- stitution, adopted in 1821, and they continued that authority in the present constitution of 1846. This authority is a very common and useful feature of state constitutions, and is lack- ing, in fact, in only three such instruments, namely, those of New Hampshire (1792),' Maine (1820) and Arkansas (1874). The grant of authority to the legislature to submit, at their discretion, the question whether a convention should be called, 1 Throughout this article, the states in Italics are those whose constitutional provisions are older than the present constitution of New York. Volume IX.] [Number i.

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