Our State Constitutions (Classic Reprint)
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Excerpt from Our State Constitutions Throughout classical and medieval philosophizing runs a theory of a paramount or fundamental law, permanent in kind, because fixed in nature. This theory in its modem form, after voicing itself for a time in the Cromwellian period, came to the front in the American Revolution, and found its proper expression in the written constitution. In our federal system, owing to the rigidity of the national constitution, the development of that document must be traced in the varying decisions of the supreme court of the United States. In the commonwealths a more flexible system of amendment prevails, and for that reason changes in what the states consider to be their fundamental law, may be traced more easily in the constitutions themselves, subject as they are to frequent revision and amendment. In the revolutionary period these constitutions were few in number, small in size, and contained a mere framework of governmental organization. Since that time some two hundred state constitutions have been made or revised. The forty-five now in force average in length over fifteen thousand words, the longest, that of Louisiana, having about forty-five thousand. In place of fundamentals only, they are filled with details, so petty in many instances, as hardly worthy even to be dignified as statutory. This tendency to enlargement is not without justification. The proper solution of problems arising from the complexity of modem interests, demands more wisdom and knowledge than is usually found in legislatures, which are often incompetent and sometimes venal. The democratic demand for legislation through convention, is really a demand for legislators of a high grade. To legislatures in consequence are left the mere details of legislation with a minimum of discretion in the formulation of statutes. 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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