Word: offing
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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The issue has excited many other rivalries. The Globe (for) and the Herald (against) are continually fighting it out, and the Legislature sees the demand for a convention as Executive intrusion upon its authority. Many outside the government, such as the Herald, claim that the General Court is the proper...
A convention could provide a comprehensible, thoughtful review of the constitution that the large, harried General Court cannot undertake, even political interests aside. Despite the fiascos that New Hampshire puts on every 7 years, conventions like New Jersey's in 1947 have succeeded when advised by competent research. The uniqueness...
At the 1917 Convention 50 per cent of the delegates had previous legislative experience and, as Attorney Morris M. Goldings points out, the importance of the statistic depend on which half impresses you more. Knowledge of how a legislative body works certainly adds to the efficiency of the group, and...
The Legislature will probably neither initiate reform nor call a referendum to vote on a convention. A petition of 75,000 names would then force the question onto the ballot in 1962 and the body would meet in the summer of 1963. In the end it might give the governor...
On the other hand, the convention could give back to the Legislature its rightful authority over taxation that the constitution now restricts very tightly. Like the counties and the Governor's Council, archaic limitations on taxation resemble, in the words of a commission several years ago, "a building with a...