Rebooting California: Initiatives, Conventions & Government Reform
September 24, 2010
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to explore the law and policies of Constitutional Reform for California
and a possible Constitutional Convention
- Call for Papers
- Panels and Areas of Inquiry
- Confirmed Panelists
- Current Co-sponsors
- Sponsorship Opportunities
- Schedule of Events (tentative)
- Join the Mailing List
- Press Room
- Multimedia Center (includes video interviews with organizers Professor Karl Manheim and Adjunct Professors John Caragozian and Don Warner)
- Citizens' Constitutional Convention Act (Measure 09-0066)
- The Call for a Citizens Limited Constitutional Convention (Measure 09-0067)
- Article 36 (Measure 09-0018)
- Article 37 (Measure 09-0019)
- Other Pending Initiatives
Current California Constitution (Search)
Article II
Voting, Initiative and Referendum
§ 1. All political power is inherent in the people.
Government is instituted for their protection, security, and benefit, and they have the right to alter or reform it when the public good may require.
Article XVIII
Amending and Revising the Constitution
§ 2. The Legislature by rollcall vote entered in the journal, two-thirds of the membership of each house concurring, may submit at a general election the question whether to call a convention to revise the Constitution. If the majority vote yes on that question, within 6 months the Legislature shall provide for the convention. Delegates to a constitutional convention shall be voters elected from districts as nearly equal in population as may be practicable.
Brief History of the 1849 Convention
Debates in the Convention (large file)
Spanish Version
1848 Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
Working Papers of the 1878-79 Convention
Debates & Proceedings of the Constitutional Convention
Timeline:
From: RepairCalifornia.org
Links (unaffiliated)
The Bay Area Council | California Progress Report | New America Foundation | LA Times - The California Fix
