November 3, 1908. Permitting legislature to create new counties and to change county boundaries.
November, 1900. Empowering legislature to exempt from taxation $300 of personal property of each head of family...
November 8, 1904. Empowering legislature to
appoint chaplains for state penal and reforma
November 6, 1906. Use of waters for removal
of timber declared a public use....... November 6, 1906. Eminent domain may be ex
ercised in interest of lumbering business.. November 3, 1908. Taxation, and property ex
November 3, 1908. Exercise of eminent domain for benefit of lumbering interests
November 4, 1902. Office of secretary of state made elective, etc.
November 4, 1902. Authorizing legislature to
enact laws for the registration of voters....
November 3, 1908. Permitting appointment to
office of persons not citizens entitled to vote Rejected
November 3, 1908. Substituting county commis-
sioners for existing county organization
November 4, 1902. Election of state superin-
tendent of public instruction, etc. Permits
November 4, 1902. Permitting legislature to
enact a general banking law
November 4, 1902. Forbids granting of passes
to state officers........
November 3, 1908. Requiring citizenship as a
qualification for right to vote...
November 3, 1908. Extending from three to six
days time within which governor may veto bills.
November 3, 1908. Permitting progressive in-
November 3, 1908. Permitting the appropria-
tion of state money for the improvement of
public highways.....
November 6, 1900. Permitting counties to refund indebtedness in excess of constitutional limitation November, 1904. Fixing salaries of judges by constitutional provision-increasing salaries. November 3, 1908. Providing that state board of equalization should be composed of chairmen of boards of county commissioners.......
1 Did not receive majority of votes cast at election.
convention, 82, 83; power to ap-
propriate money not usually pos-
sessed by conventions, 82, 83, 103,
Arguments, for and against pro-
posed amendments, distribution
of, 167-178, 274, 288, 291
Arkansas, constitution of 1836 not
submitted to people, 65; pop-
ular majority required for adop-
tion of amendments in, 190
Articles of confederation, popular
approval of, in New Hampshire
and Massachusetts, 8, note, 10,
note.
Adams, John, views regarding | Appropriation, of money for use of
methods of framing constitutions,
26
Alabama, popular vote for amend-
ment of constitution of 1819, 123;
ballot employed to force voting
on amendments, 190-192, 198
Amendment, constitutional: pro-
visions for, in first state consti-
tutions, 27-29; development of
processes of, 120-136; restric-
tions upon the proposal of, 132,
133, 136-140, 260-262; present
methods of, 134, 135; increasing
ease of, 129; time required for
adoption of, 138, 139; steps in
process of, 141, 142; subject only
to such rules as laid down in
amending clause of constitution,
152-156, 216; form of proposal
in legislature, 155, note; separate
submission of each, 178-183; what
constitutes one amendment,"
179, 192, 193, 196, 216, 221; popu-
lar majority required for adop-
tion of, 185-202; time when it
becomes effective, 203, 204; er-
roneous and contradictory amend-
ments, 206-209; popular vote re-
quired to adopt, 185-202, 216; ju-
dicial control over processes of,
209-236; no judicial control over
substance of, 234-238; overruling
of courts by, 238-243; relation
between statutes and amendments,
237-258; relation between consti-
tutional conventions and process
of amendment, 258-262; working
of popular referendum on pro-
posed amendments, 266-292; fre-
quency with which amendments
submitted, 266-269; triviality of
proposals, 269-271, 289, 291
Ballot, for amendments, separate
from that for candidates, 184, 279,
288, 292; requirement that full
text of proposed amendment ap-
pear upon ballot, 184; form of
ballot designed to compel voting
on amendments, 190-199
Bryce, James, discussion of flexible
and rigid constitutions, 139
California, distribution of argu-
ments on proposed amendments
in, 170, 171
Colonies, government in, I
Commissions, constitutional,
note, 262-265
Connecticut, continuance of charter
government in, 26; popular sub-
mission of constitution of 1818,
64; popular approval of amend-
ments under constitution of, 125
Constitutional convention: first sug-
gested and employed in New
Hampshire, 5-7, 23; sentiment
favorable to, in Massachusetts, 8,
9, 23; steps in development of,
21-25; provision for, in first con-
stitutions of Georgia, Massachu-
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