ANNOTATED FOR THE USE OF THE CONSTITUTIONAL CONVENTION OF 1907 LANSING, MICHIGAN WYNKOOP HALLENBECK CRAWFORD COMPANY, STATE PRINTERS 1907 # ANNOTATED FOR THE USE OF THE CONSTITUTIONAL LANSING, MICHIGAN WYNKOOP HALLENBECK CRAWFORD COMPANY, STATE PRINTERS 1907 ARVARD COLLEGE LIBRAP AUG 31 1915 Received through the The bills of rights in American constitutions have not been drafted for the introduction of new law, but to secure old principles against abrogation or violation. They are conservatory instruments rather than reformatory. Weimer v. Bunbury, 30/213. The present constitution was not the formation of a new government, but the continuation of one formed under the previous constitution, whose supposed or real defects it was intended to correct. Streeter v. Paton, 7/346. It is a fair presumption that the framers of the constitution, in adopting legal terms, had reference to their strict legal and technical import. Slaughter v. People, 2 Doug. 336. No constitutional provision will be held as merely directory. People v. Dettenthaler, 118/595. CONSTITUTION TABLE OF CONTENTS: ARTICLE II.-Seat of Government. ARTICLE III.-Division of the Powers of Government. ARTICLE IV.-Legislative Department. ARTICLE V.-Executive Department. NOTE. The references to the Michigan reports are indicated, as in the Compiled |