{"id":76481,"date":"2017-01-03T09:41:16","date_gmt":"2017-01-03T14:41:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/?p=76481"},"modified":"2017-01-02T21:47:58","modified_gmt":"2017-01-03T02:47:58","slug":"league-of-women-voters-of-cazenovia-to-sponsor-lecture-jan-21-on-constitutional-convention","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/?p=76481","title":{"rendered":"League of Women Voters of Cazenovia to sponsor lecture Jan. 21 on constitutional convention"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"[ANNUAL<\/a>On Nov. 7, 2017, New York State voters will find on their ballots the\u00a0Constitutionally mandated question, \u201dShall there be a convention to revise the\u00a0constitution and amend the same?\u201d (N.Y. Const., Art XIX, sec 2)<\/p>\n

Although this question appears every 20 years, in only nine instances in New\u00a0York state history have we convened a Convention to consider how the State\u00a0Constitution might be altered, potentially changing how government in Albany\u00a0works.<\/p>\n

Recognizing the importance of this opportunity, the Rockefeller Institute, the\u00a0Government Law Center at Albany Law School, the League of Women Voters of\u00a0New York State, and the Siena Research Institute have joined forces, often with\u00a0partner organizations from around the state, to try to ensure that each of New\u00a0York\u2019s voters may go to vote with a clearer sense of what a Constitutional\u00a0Convention could achieve.<\/p>\n

The League of Women Voters of Cazenovia will sponsor an informational lecture by Dr. Henrik N. Dullea, a former member of the SUNY\u00a0Board of Trustees, who has a long history in higher education and government\u00a0administration. Dullea received his Ph.D. in political science from the Maxwell School of Syracuse University. He is the author of\u00a0Charter Revision in\u00a0the Empire State:\u00a0The Politics of New York\u2019s 1967 Constitutional Convention\u00a0and\u00a0co-editor of\u00a0Decision 1997: Constitutional Change in New York.<\/p>\n

The lecture will be held Jan. 21 at 10:30 a.m. in the Community Room of the Cazenovia Public Library, 100 Albany St. The public is invited to attend,\u00a0learn about this important issue, and ask questions of the speaker.<\/p>\n

The website of the League of Women Voters of New York State, www.lwvny.org,\u00a0has background information on the Constitutional Convention with many useful\u00a0links. This is a complicated issue, and we hope to be informed and confident\u00a0voters by Election Day Nov. 7, 2017.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

On Nov. 7, 2017, New York State voters will find on their ballots the\u00a0Constitutionally mandated question, \u201dShall there be a convention to revise the\u00a0constitution and amend the same?\u201d (N.Y. Const., Art XIX, sec 2) Although this question appears every 20 years, in only nine instances in New\u00a0York state history have we convened a Convention to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":76482,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[23814,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-76481","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-state","category-top-story"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/madisoncountycourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/0735_12_011.jpg?fit=2425%2C3637&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p43meu-jTz","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76481","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=76481"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76481\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/76482"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=76481"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=76481"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=76481"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}