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What Charter Reform Commissions Can Teach Us About a Proposed Constitutional Convention in California
| Content Provider | Semantic Scholar |
|---|---|
| Author | Sonenshein, Raphael J. |
| Copyright Year | 2010 |
| Abstract | THE CALIFORNIA Journal of Politics & Policy Volume 2, Issue 2 What Charter Reform Commissions Can Teach Us About a Proposed Constitutional Convention in California Raphael J. Sonenshein California State University, Fullerton Abstract With all that is at stake in reforming the government of the nation’s largest state, with responsibility for the welfare of 38 million Californians, we know very little about how to make a constitutional convention work. How large should the convention be? Should delegates be elected or appointed? What issues should be on the agenda? How can the convention delegates obtain expert information? Who will organize and lead the convention? Remarkably, there is virtually no discussion of the far more common experience by which local and some state governments in California and throughout the nation have reformed governance structures: the charter reform commission. Such commissions have routinely dealt with these is- sues for more than a hundred years and have managed to update and adapt munici- pal government with great success. KEYWORDS: constitutional reform, legislative reform, political reform, Califor- nia government, term limits www.bepress.com/cjpp |
| Starting Page | 1 |
| Ending Page | 11 |
| Page Count | 11 |
| File Format | PDF HTM / HTML |
| DOI | 10.5070/P27G69 |
| Volume Number | 2 |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | https://cloudfront.escholarship.org/dist/prd/content/qt0vk1h66n/qt0vk1h66n.pdf?t=nhxiev |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | https://doi.org/10.5070/P27G69 |
| Language | English |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
