A VERY ABLE ONE,
and to be all of one political party, and that one not of my own kind, they proceed as follows:
"We deem it sufficient to say that if there is any provision of the Constitution which should be disregarded as mandatory it is not where the Constitution provides for its own amendment otherwise than by means of a Convention called for that purpose. The powers of a Convention are of course, limited. The members thereof are the representatives of the people, called together for that purpose. The object of the provision can not be doubted or misunderstood. It is to preserve in the manner indicated the identical amendment proposed and in an authentic form, which, under the Constitution, is to come from the succeeding General Assembly. No better mode court have been adopted, when it is considered that, to be effective, the proposed amend men t must be agreed to by The succeeding General Assembly. This thought; is much strengthened by the consideration that the proposed amendment is only required to be entered on the journals of th first General Assembly which acts thereon. This distinction, to our minds, is significant, and enhances the importance of the Constitutional injunction that, the proposed amendment shall be entered on the journals of both Houses of the General Assembly which first agrees thereto.
