The Civic Federation Constitutional Convention Series
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| Stand: | 2015-08-04 03:50:33 |
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Excerpt from The Civic Federation Constitutional Convention Series: General Considerations Illinois Faces a Real Problem For the fourth time in our State´s history of one hundred years, the electors, on November 5, 1918, ratified the call for a Convention "to revise, alter or amend the State Constitution of Illinois." The action taken by the Fiftieth General Assembly in 1917 in voting to submit this question for the approval or rejection of the people, was more important and more broadly significant than if it had voted merely to submit a single specific amendment. An amendment would have proposed a change in only one phase of the fundamental law of our State. The voters would have been casting their ballots for or against a definite proposed change; whereas, now they have voted to open the whole Constitution to such changes or revisions as the Convention soon to be elected may choose to propose. Progress And Peril In The Balance The general election of 1918, with the huge vote cast to open this wide door for revision of our Constitution, therefore may prove to be another mile-post in the political and economic history of Illinois; and while we hope for great benefits to be gained from the holding of this Convention, it also is possible that the finger on this mile-post may point the way up some rough by-path of doubtful and dangerous experiment, instead of along the broad highway of true progress. Almost equally menacing is the possibility that the Convention may not be able to agree upon such a revision or such amendments as the people would approve, and that, after years of effort, we shall have to continue to break our way through the new country of future years with the plow and scraper of 1870 instead of with modern road-making machinery. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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