CONSTITUTIONAL CONVENTION; ITS HISTORY, POWERS, AND MODES OF PROCEEDING. BY JOHN ALEXANDER JAMESON, JUDGE OF THE SUPERIOR COURT OF CHICAGO, AND PROFESSOR OF CONSTITUTIONAL Populus non omnis hominum cœtus quoque modo congregatus, sed cœtus multitudinis juris They that go about by disobedience to do no more than reforme the commonwealth shall find EI NEW YORK: CHARLES SCRIBNER AND COMPANY. CHICAGO: S. C. GRIGGS AND COMPANY. Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1866, by JOHN A. JAMESON, in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States for the Northern District RIVERSIDE, CAMBRIDGE: STEREOTYPED AND PRINTED BY H. O. HOUGHTON AND COMPANY. TABLE OF CONTENTS. OF THE VARIOUS KINDS OF CONVENTIONS. Leading principles of the American system of government. legislation, how distributed abroad, and how in America. §1. Importance of the Constitutional Convention. §§ 2, 3. Enacts the fundamental law. Various species of Conventions described and distinguished. §§ 4-16. I. THE SPONTANEOUS CONVENTION, or PUBLIC MEETING. §§ 4, 5. Examples of, in early American history. §§ 9, 10. IV. THE CONSTITUTIONAL CONVENTION. § 11. Where the Constitutional Convention exercises the powers of a Revolutionary Convention, or vice versa, how to be classed. § 12. History of the origin and development of the Constitutional Con- vention in the United States. §§ 13, 14. Misconceptions respecting the origin, constitution, and powers of the Fundamental conceptions to be first developed — sovereignty, or a sovereign body, and a Constitution, or law fundamental. §17. |