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Article: Constitution revision commissions avoid logrolling, don't they?(Florida)
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- Florida Bar Journal
- Article date:
- November 1, 1998
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Constitutional revision is not for the faint of heart.[1] Compared to the constitutional convention, that unique, 200-year-old invention of American political practice, the constitutional commission is of relatively recent vintage. It is only about a century old. In fact, in his 1887 Treatise on Constitutional Conventions, Judge John Alexander Jameson described the constitutional commission as "a novel device."[2]
Some 90 years later, Albert L. Sturm offered the following observation:
Increasing use of the constitutional commission as an auxiliary device for initiating both major and minor changes is one of the most significant developments in the ...