ich do not belong in every respect to any one individual State. In a subsequent chapter I will endeavor to explain this more fully. In endeavoring to understand the Constitution of the United States, it is essentially necessary that we should remember Belgium Damen that we have always to deal with two different political arrangements — that Menn James Rodriguez Fotballdrakter which refers to the nation as a whole, and Menn Luca Antonelli Fotballdrakter that which belongs to each State as a separate governing power in itself. What is law in one State is not law in another, nevertheless there is a very great likeness throughout these various constitutions, and any political student who shall have thoroughly mastered one, will not have much to learn in mastering the others.
This State, now called New York, was first settled by the Dutch in 1614, on Manhattan Island. They established a government in 1629, under the Menn Iker Casillas Fotballdrakter name of the New Netherlands. In 1664 Charles II. granted the province to his brother, James II., then Duke of York, Menn Assane Demoya Gnoukouri Fotballdrakter and possession was taken of the country on his behalf by one Colonel Nichols. In 1673 it was recaptured by the Dutch, but they could not hold it, and the Duke of York Menn Samir Handanovic Fotballdrakter again took possession by patent. A legislative body was first assembled during the reign of Charles II., in 1683; from which it will be seen that parliamentary representation was introduced into the American colonies at a very early date. The Declaration of Independence was made by the revolted colonies in 1776, and in 1777 the first constitution was adopted by the State of New York. In 1822 this was changed for another; and the one of which I now purport to state some of the details was brought into action in 1847. In this constitution there is a provision that it shall be Menn Sergio Ramos Fotballdrakter overhauled and remodeled, if needs be, once in twenty years. Article XIII. Sec. 2. “At the general election to be held in 1806, and in each twentieth year thereafter, the question, ‘Shall there be a convention to revise the constitution and amend the same?’ shall be decided by the electors qualified to vote for members of the legis |
