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Who is Afraid of the Constitutional Convention? The Rejection of Constitutional Change in the State of New York

–Eleonora Bottini, Sorbonne Law School, Visiting Professor at Columbia Law School “God forbid we should ever be twenty years without […] a rebellion”. –-Thomas Jefferson By voting massively “no” to Constitutional Proposal n. 1 on November 7th 2017, the people of the State of New York have rejected the opportunity to rethink and rewrite their

Published on November 22, 2017
Author: Eleonora Bottini Filed under: Developments

Tags: Constitutional Convention, New York, New York Constitution, Runaway Convention

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