Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Official New York, Vol. 3 of 4: From Cleveland to Hughes
T is provided by the Constitution that the legislative power of the State shall be vested in the Senate and Assembly. This provision was first ex pressed in this language in the Constitution of 1821. The Constitution of 1777 provided that the supreme legislative power within this State shall be vested in two separate and distinct bodies of men - the one to be called the Assembly of the State of New York, the other to be called the Senate of the State of New York - who together shall form the Legislature and meet at least once in every year for the despatch of business. There has never been any suggestion either by Constitutional con ventions or by proposed Constitutional amendment to change the general character of the two bodies comprising the Legislature. Changes have been made from time to time in the number of members of each body and in the manner of their election, but the Senate and Assembly have retained their present relative positions from the organization of our State government. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.