The Kalida venture. [volume] (Kalida, Ohio) 1841-1865, 1846-05-14
New York Constitutional COnven-
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The Democracy, the party Of Progress, have
,riumphed in New York, and the action of the
Convention for the reform of the State Constitu-
'ion will be under their guidance. We therefore
take the following declaration of the reforms
to be accomplished, from resolutions which
were adopted at meeting of the democracy of
the "empire city" held in Tammany Hall, to up-
prove the nomination Of delegates, as the basis
OF those provisions most likely to be engrulIed on
the new instrument:
To provide for the extinguishment of the
existing State debt, by requiring that all the
surplus revenue ofthe public works shall be
applied TO the payment ofthe debt as it falls
due.
10 prohibit the creation of any new or
additional State debt except for public de-
fence.
To prohibit the loan of the credit or prop
erty of the State 10 any private corporation
or company for any purpose Or under any
circumstances.
10 lessen executive patronage and cen
tral influence, by providing for elccting by
the people the State officers, and all the
chief officers under the government,
To diminish, diAuse, and dscen,ralise the
powers of administration, by conferring on
the boards of supervisors, or other local
bodies directly representing the people ofthe
several counties and cities, the mass oflocal
legislation; the accumulation of which upon
the State Legislature, prevents the localities
from applying their own experience to the
improvement Of local Administrations, and OBJ
strncts the general Legislation of the State.
10 re-organse the Judiciary, electing
judges by the peoples providing sufficient
number to perform all the business with
promptness and facilityj and rendering the
administration of justice cheap and efficient
To provide for systematic and thorough
reform ofthe lawss for a simplifcaton of the
modes Of legal procedure, the antiquated and
artificial formalites of which occasion delay
and cost, often amounting to denial Of JUS
tice; aud ultimately for toafeation Of the
vast mass of unwrtten laws, SO that individA
uals may readily know the legal fules by
which they must be governed, MAY ascertain
with more clearness and certainty their legal
rights, that litigation be lessened and justice
between man and man be promoted.
To require the legislature to pass general
laws, under which business and other asso-
Citations may be formed, and to restrain the
comforting ofspecial charters and privileges.
To engraft provision for the entire sew
orance Of all connexion between the banks
and the government, and to provide for an
independent treasury for the State.
Within short time new Constitutions have
been adopted by the States of New Jersey ,Louisi-
ana, Texas, Rhode Island, Florida, and Missouri; ;
and efforts are in progress for the revision and
form Of the fundamental laws Of Maryland. and
Virginia, efforts which must before long be sue
cessful. Iowa, profting by the experience of
older sections, in her proposed Constitution EN-.
braces the prominent reforms which have charac.
terlsed the revised constitutions lately adopted
Among these are biennial Legislative sessions and
elections; restrictions on the creation of corpora
lions, and the prohibition of corporations for the